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The Ultimate After Effects Plugin & Preset Starter Pack
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items A curated collection of the essential plugins, scripts, and preset packs every After Effects editor needs to create viral, high-quality edits faster. From velocity maps to seamless transitions, these are the exact tools used by top editors.
Sections
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1. Core Plugins & Scripts
2. Presets & Asset Packs
3. Workflow & Productivity Tools
1. Core Plugins & Scripts
The non-negotiable visual effects, motion blur, and color grading plugins that elevate standard edits into high-production content.
Essential for smooth, physically accurate glow effects without crushing render times.
Deep Glow 2
Adds smooth, realistic motion blur to pre-rendered footage, velocity edits, or 3D animations without extra render passes.
Revisionfx - ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB)
The industry standard suite for heavy visual effects, glints, lens flares, camera shakes, and fast transition effects.
Sapphire Plug-ins
Essential for high-end color grading. Includes hundreds of cinematic LUTs, film grain overlays, and color scopes.
Magic Bullet Looks
The ultimate workflow extension for speed. Gives you instant anchor point controls, visual curve easing, and fast layer management.
Mt. Mograph (Motion 4)
A completely free, industry-standard plugin for creating light beams, glowing energy rings, lightsabers, and neon text effects instantly.
SABER (New)
The ultimate lens flare engine for After Effects to add realistic anamorphic glares, lighting strikes, and cinematic lens reflections.
Optical Flares (New)
2. Presets & Asset Packs
Essential drag-and-drop elements, typography animations, and sound effect bundles to speed up your editing workflow without sacrificing quality.
A massive library of drag-and-drop transitions, liquid elements, sound effects, and text animations built directly into After Effects.
AEJuice Bundles
Free and essential plugin for quick typography animations, seamless camera zooms, and layered sound design.
Mister Horse (Animation Composer)
An unlimited subscription library for video templates, AE project files, stock video, music, and sound effects.
Envato Elements
A powerful extension preset viewer that lets you preview and apply thousands of seamless transitions and FX with one click.
Motion Bro Plugin
3. Workflow & Productivity Tools
Smart utilities and scripts designed to eliminate tedious graph editing, vector imports, and project organization headaches.
Instantly transfers vector graphics between Adobe Illustrator and After Effects with a single click, no file saving required.
Overlord
Eliminates graph editor headaches by letting you customize, preview, and apply keyframe velocity curves instantly.
Flow
Lets you create custom toolbars inside After Effects to trigger your most-used effects, scripts, and expressions instantly
KBar3
Drastically reduces render times by using multi-processor background rendering across your CPU cores.
RenderGarden