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After Effects Presets

Save time and effort in After Effects

A collection of visual After Effects presets and text animators for After Effects to help speed up your workflow and give you the effect you need in moments.

Just drag and drop the presets from the effects panel into your After Effects composition. Apply the presets directly to your layers, or to an adjustment layer.

If you apply the preset to an adjustment layer, all the layers underneath will be affected by whichever after effects preset you use.

Whether it's a glitchy effect or vintage feel, each pack has been designed to give your projects that little extra boost!

Installing an After Effects Preset

If you're new to After Effects Presets, take a look through our quick guide on how to install an After Effects Preset. You may also want to check out our After Effects Presets FAQ below.

Skylights Pro - 30 Instagram-style filters for After Effects

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Flat lifeless footage needing Instagram-quality color grading when you don't have the skills or time

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Staple - 30 After Effects text animation presets

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Building the same text animations from scratch every project with no organized library to reuse

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Terminal - retro computer screen preset for After Effects

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Having to create a retro screen look by hand because the client has been playing too much fallout.

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Fragment - 30 Glitch Preset After Effects Pack

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Building glitch effects that don't look cheap when most presets scream "free pack"

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Frequently Asked Questions:

What are After Effects presets?

After Effects presets are an effect, or collection of effects, with specific values already set up that you can apply to your layers in After Effects.

When installed, presets appear in the Effects & Presets panel, and you can apply them to your layers in exactly the same way you would apply a normal After Effects effect.

Take our Terminal retro computer preset as an example, all you have to do is drag and drop this preset onto an adjustment layer and it will apply all of the various effects needed to create an old computer screen look for you.

After Effects presets are a great way to save time in your projects, and if you find yourself applying the same effects with the same values then you should definitely look at creating your own presets to cut out the legwork.

How to install after effects presets

To install a preset you need to put it into the right folder, luckily we've written a helpful post on how to install after effects presets that runs through everything you need to know about installing a preset in After Effects.

Can I buy all of your presets at once?

You sure can! Our after effects presets pack bundle contains all of the Loop After Effects presets, and buying together will save you a whopping 25% compared to buying each individually.

Are your After Effects presets free?

At the moment we have one free after effects preset pack, and that's our Skylights Instagram filters for After Effects. This pack is available on a pay what you like basis, so if you want to chip in then you can, but you can also download the filters for free by putting £0 in the box on Gumroad.

Take a look at these painkillers: After Effects Scripts

SpeakEasy - Captions for After Effects

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Creating 50+ timed text layers by hand because After Effects has ZERO native caption support

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PeaceKeeper for After Effects

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Opening After Effects project files and wanting to burn them to the ground because they're so chaotic

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The Renderly 2 Script

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Having to manually adjust the workarea bar and enter your render settings each and every time you render a comp

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The Numero Script

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Spending 20 minutes building a sliding number counter by hand when all you need is a simple number animation

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The Codeword Script

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Spending 30+ minutes of your precious time manually animating cryptex style animations

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The Focal Script

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Manually creating gradient ramps for blur maps, switching between comps just to adjust focus, and generally becoming annoyed with camera lens blurs in Ae.

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The Waterfall Script

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Boring single-color Echo trails with zero creative control over individual copies

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The Telegram Script

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The absolute tedium of splitting paragraph text into lines by hand, repositioning each line manually, and then creating perfectly sized mattes for each manually. Seriously, just automate it.

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The Highlight Script

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Manually creating shape layers for every single word because After Effects has zero native underline support

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The OK Zoomer Script

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Following the exact same time-consuming steps every time you need to create a split second zoom effect

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The Spoke Script

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Having to duplicate layers one by one and calculate complex rotation maths just to rotate layers round a circle in AE

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The Triangular Script

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The ridiculousness of having to use the polygon tool and a bunch of manual steps just to create triangles in After Effects

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The Orbit Script

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Writing orbit expressions from scratch with trial-and-error radius values for every single layer

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The Fragment Script

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Spending hours tweaking complicated noise patterns and displacement maps

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The Memphis Script

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Spending hours making dozens of random geometric shapes with perfect spacing and rotation

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The Highline Script

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Boring generic drop shadows with zero style options making everyone's work look identical

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The Renderly Script

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The complex and time-intensive way of rendering out multiple sections of the same comp via the render queue settings

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The Helix Script

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Building 3D DNA helixes from scratch

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The DialUp Script

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Spending hours building sci-fi HUD dials with shape layers for 5-second background elements

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The Conductor Script

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Creating nulls and parenting layers one-by-one when you just want to slide a group of things off screen

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The Angle Script

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Creating camera rigs manually and trying to remember isometric rotation values for every project

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The Laundrette Script

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Pasting text that imports with random fonts and sizes that completely destroy your layout

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The Jiggle Script

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Trying to remember the expression to wiggle along a single axis.

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The Selector Script

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Scrolling through 200-layer timelines clicking one at a time because there's no "select all above" button

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The Wordsmith Script

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Opening Chrome, Googling "lorem ipsum", copy, switch to AE, paste - breaking flow for dummy text

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The Sociable Script

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Googling "Instagram story dimensions" for the 500th time this year

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Take a look at our After Effects Templates

The right After Effects template can give you a great foundation to work from in your motion design projects.

Whether you're looking for a logo animation template that's ready to go, or a more intricate cyberpunk HUD pack, all our templates for After Effects have been expertly designed by motion designers, for motion designers.

Chronos: The Sci-Fi HUD & UI Pack for After Effects

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Building HUD elements manually and recreating the same interface elements from zero on every sci-fi project

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Galactic - Futuristic UI template for After Effects

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Building futuristic UI elements from scratch when clients want "Minority Report" on a stock budget

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Chronos:Expansion A Sci-fi template for After Effects

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Logo animation template for After Effects

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Fragment Glitch After Effects Template and presets

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Creating glitch effects for 20+ titles manually and keeping the style consistent across everything

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Glitch logo animation template for After Effects

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Having to come up with a unique logo animation when the client just doesn't have the budget

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