Free After Effects Scripts: Customize with Build-a-bar ToolFree After Effects Scripts: Customize with Build-a-bar Tool
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Put 32 of my After Effects scripts online for free (MIT), plus a page that bundles just the ones you want into a single toolbar Most of these exist because I got tired of doing the same thing by hand for the hundredth time and wrote a script instead. They piled up, so I finally stuck them on a site. Everything's free and MIT, so you can open them, change them, use them in paid work, whatever you want.
What makes it less of a mess than the usual "here's a bunch of loose scripts" is something I called Build-a-bar. You tick the ones you actually want, hit download, and you get a zip with one responsive, fast, scriptui dockable panel (icon button per script) plus only those scripts. So your Window menu doesn't turn into a wall of scripts, it's just one panel with your picks. Drop it in ScriptUI foldergene, restart AE, done.
Each one also has a docs page if you want to see exactly what it does before installing.
Full list:
Animation & rigging
Limb-a-tron: two-segment IK/FK limb rig. Drag one null to bend it, bake it out when you're happy.
Linearizer: drive existing keyframed animation off any slider, position, or rotation value.
PathMaster: stick a layer's position on a shape path and retime/re-ease/loop it.
Composition
Guiderator: type a number (or a formula like 1920/2) and it drops the guide there.
Slidotron 16x9 / 9x16: one-click horizontal or vertical slide-reveal rigs with mirrored mattes.
Effects, color & audio
BurstMate: drops in a rigged radial stroke burst you can dial in (color, length, density, decay).
ChromaBlenderizer: ramp a color range across selected fills, strokes, and effect colors.
Sync-o-tron: make any property audio-reactive in a click.
sfxMaster: run Voice Over / SFX / Music off three master sliders, audio auto-sorted into groups.
Keyframes
Elast-o-matic: adds elastic overshoot or a gravity bounce after a keyframe.
KeyBot: batch-edit selected keyframe values with = + - x / per axis.
KeyCloneMatic: repeat a keyframe set down the timeline, fixed or decaying interval.
Valuatron: stamp a key at the playhead for every selected property at once.
Layers
Controllerizer: pull selected properties from a bunch of layers onto one control null via expressions.
NullBot: parent a group of layers to one null at their average position.
Opac-o-bot: basically parenting but for Opacity, via expression.
OrderMaster: reverse or shuffle the stacking order of layers or shape groups.
Parent-o-bot: blend a layer's Position/Scale/Rotation/Opacity toward up to two parents.
Rectangulator: turn a parametric rectangle into a real bezier shape with per-corner rounding.
Reseterator: zero out the transform origin on selected layers (anchor to 0,0,0).
SubtitleForge: builds a caption rig, text plus a self-sizing box with stroke and shadow.
TextMate: highlight every case-sensitive match of a word in a text layer.
TimeWarp-a-tron: drive Time Remap off a 0-100 slider over an in/out range you set.
Paths & shapes
Centralizer: drops center + bounding-box guides around shapes, images, or precomps, works on multiselect.
Distributron: spread a comp's layers along a shape path, each rotating to follow the curve.
Originator: recenter a shape path's origin on (0,0) so it scales and rotates the way you'd expect.
Trace-o-matic: turn a layer's masks into a shape layer with hold-keyframed paths.
VertexMaster: convert a bezier path's vertices/tangents into nulls you can key and parent.
Utilities
Iteratron: spread a property evenly across a stack of layers between a start and end value.
RandoMatic: replace selected keyframe values with fresh random numbers, per-axis range.
Triminator: slap a pre-keyframed 0-100% Trim Paths reveal on a shape layer.
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