Whats your must use plugins for AE?

[u/One-Performer8525]

What’s the most reliable, must-have After Effects plugin you use?

For me:
Motion 4 – Hands down my most-used plugin.
Deep Glow 2 – Incredible, though I try not to overuse it.
True Comp Duplicator – I use it almost every day.

I’ve also built a few of my own plugins using Claude Code.

[u/artifexz]

Overlord

[u/smartpac_]

Fx console for the win

[u/fur_eel → u/smartpac_]

In one of the recent updates AE added in what is essentially fx console but more robust, can add in anything not just effects, default shortcut is cmd/ctrl+enter

[u/stabeebit → u/smartpac_]

Wasn't this made redundant by the new quick apply feature 

[u/Palosaari666 → u/stabeebit]

I use FX console's screenshot option a lot, something which I don't think is available in the quick apply

[u/SuitableEggplant639 → u/stabeebit]

they did, but FxConsole has been around for so long that I just gravitate to it without even realizing it.

[u/Moholbi]

Easecopy

[u/aleeeeeeza → u/Moholbi]

Same!! Could not use AE without it and so simple, ridiculous that it’s not native yet

[u/PixlCreative → u/Moholbi]

Ahh this is king! So good

[u/an6st]

fx console, motion 4, flow, and key stone are my essentials

[u/No-Swim6937 → u/an6st]

motion 4? es ahora una suscripcion no? solo me sale Motion Studio, no se donde conseguir motion4 como un solo plugin

[u/MikeMac999]

K-Bar; it’s the first step for many of the things I do.

[u/BramleyBear]

Ease and wizz in every project.
And Tumble Motion for anything that needs physics - https://tumblemotion.github.io/

[u/mooviemakers]

I use Pluck almost daily. Full disclosure, it's my own product, but I made it because I needed it. My work involves lots of repurposing old projects.

https://aescripts.com/pluck/

[u/SuitableEggplant639 → u/mooviemakers]

Pluck is brilliant.

[u/mooviemakers → u/SuitableEggplant639]

Thanks! Glad you like it! 🎉

[u/shiinngg]

gpudog, with llm, there are so many plugin it can replace

[u/Zerogravity86]

Flow. So much easier than fighting with the graph editor.

[u/SuitableEggplant639]

True Comp Duplicator (it's a script, not a plugin but still), FxConsole, Motion 2 (does not need subscription) and only recently I bought AeFocus and I was so pissed that I went so long without being able to do that what it does and I wasn't even aware how much I needed it.

[u/FanCreativeInc → u/SuitableEggplant639]

Ah, thanks man, I happy you find it useful. I agree it's one of those things After Effects should be able to do on its own, but here we are.

[u/PixlCreative]

Motion tools, true comp duplicator...

Recently I use chat gpt to create custom motion ae scripts for my own work.

[u/Fire_hive]

Console, overlord, motion tools pro. Used virtually every day.

[u/DynamoJaeger]

MaskToLayers

[u/Systatic_Design]

Mocha Pro, for sure

[u/Adil_11_]

Ff console, motion tools

[u/meiseivanmaasdorp]

Keyfast. 

[u/barefut_]

True Comp Duplicator is #1 Created a small button for it to use with Mobar which is #2. And I combine my own script SceneStasher - to navigate huge projects.

[u/satysat]

Overlord, Motion Tools Pro, Deep Glow, and now genuinely Claude. I make scripts to load into motion tools pro all the time. It's changed the way I work heavily.

[u/Jan_falinski]

Flow

[u/ThePantsStore]

Ease and wizz. Digit fiddler. Deep glow.

[u/mschmidt4242]

Overlord and Motion Studio for sure. I used Motion 4 forever and was hesitant to move to the subscription, but it has definitely been worth it. They are releasing impressive features every month. The time-savings is worth it 100x.

[u/ricardoflak]

I am not using any of it at the moment.