Aescripts Flow for After Effects

About Aescripts Flow for After Effects

Flow replaces the single most repetitive job in motion design. Instead of opening the graph editor, zooming in, dragging bezier handles on each property and doing it again for the next layer, a curve is picked from a panel and applied to whatever keyframes are selected. The same easing goes onto position, scale, rotation and opacity in one click, and the result is consistent across an entire composition rather than approximately similar.

The panel holds a library of named curves. The defaults cover the standard easing families, and any curve drawn by hand can be saved into the library with a name and reused on the next project. Because the library lives outside the project file, a house easing set follows the artist between jobs and between machines, which is how a studio keeps motion feeling like one hand made it.

Curves can be typed as well as dragged. Entering the four control point values directly means an easing specification from a design system can be reproduced exactly rather than eyeballed, and the same values export back out for handing to a developer. Curves also import from and export to the common web easing formats.

It runs as a dockable panel inside the host application, so it sits beside the timeline and stays out of the way. Keyframes it touches remain ordinary keyframes with ordinary handles, which means nothing breaks if the panel is uninstalled later and no dependency is introduced into the project file.

What is included in this build

• Applies easing to every selected keyframe across multiple properties and layers at once
• Visual curve library with named presets that persist between projects and machines
• Numeric entry of control point values for matching a design system specification exactly
• Custom curves drawn by hand and saved back into the library
• Import and export of curve values in common web easing notation
• Dockable panel that lives beside the timeline in the host application
• Leaves ordinary keyframes behind, so no project dependency is created
• Keyboard shortcut assignment for the most used curves in the library

Changed in version 1.5.1

• Library panel reorganised with folders and search
• Faster application on selections spanning hundreds of keyframes
• Improved handling of properties with separated position dimensions
• Curve import accepts additional notation variants
• Fixed a panel redraw issue on high density displays

Installation walkthrough

These steps assume a clean machine. If a previous release of the same application is present, deal with that first, since an overlapping install is the most common cause of a setup that stops halfway.

1. Close the host application completely before installing.
2. Extract the archive to a short path.
3. Run the installer as administrator and let it locate the host installation.
4. Reopen the host and enable the panel from the window menu.
5. Allow script access to write files if the host prompts for it on first use.

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