Effects

Description
An effect is a procress which affects a layer in which the layer is altered or enhanced. Although an effect can be used on a variety of different types layers, an adjustment layer will apply the affect to all layers below it in the composition. Adobe provides a large amount of effects that come free with After Effects. There are a number of third party effects that can by applied via script, expression or plug-in.

3D Channel

 * 3D Channel Extract
 * Depth Matte
 * Depth of Field
 * EXtractoR
 * Fog 3D
 * ID Matte
 * IDentifier

Audio

 * Backwards
 * Bass & Treble
 * Delay
 * Flange & Chorus
 * High-Low Pass
 * Modulator
 * Parametric EQ
 * Reverb
 * Stereo Mixer
 * Tone

Blur & Sharpen

 * Bilateral Blur
 * Box Blur
 * CC Radial Blur
 * CC Radial Fast Blur
 * CC Vector Blur
 * Channel Blur
 * Compound Blur
 * Directional Blur
 * Fast Blur
 * Gaussian Blur
 * Lens Blur
 * Radial Blur
 * Reduce Interlace Flicker
 * Sharpen
 * Smart Blur
 * Unsharp Mask

Channel

 * Alpha Levels
 * Arithmetic
 * Blend
 * Calculations
 * CC Composite
 * Channel Combiner
 * Compound Arithmetic
 * Invert
 * Minimax
 * Remove Color Matting
 * Set Channels
 * Set Matte
 * Shift Channels
 * Solid Composite

Color Correction

 * Auto Color
 * Auto Contrast
 * Auto Levels
 * Brightness & Contrast
 * Broadcast Colors
 * CC Color Offset
 * CC Toner
 * Change Color
 * Change To Color
 * Channel Mixer
 * Color Balance
 * Color Balance (HLS)
 * Color Link
 * Color Stabilizer
 * Colorama
 * Curves
 * Equalize
 * Exposure
 * Gamma/Pedestal/Gain
 * Hue/Saturation
 * Leave Color
 * Levels
 * Levels (Individual Controls)
 * Photo Filter
 * PS Arbitrary Map
 * Shadow/Highlight
 * Tint
 * Tritone

Distort

 * Bezier Warp
 * Bulge
 * CC Bent It
 * CC Bender
 * CC Blobbylize
 * CC Flo Motion
 * CC Griddler
 * CC Lens
 * CC Page Turn
 * CC Power Pin
 * CC Ripple Pulse
 * CC Slant
 * CC Smear
 * CC Split
 * CC Split 2
 * CC Tiler
 * Corner Pin
 * Displacement Map
 * Liquify
 * Magnify
 * Mesh Warp
 * Mirror
 * Offset
 * Optics Compensation
 * Polar Coordinates
 * Puppet
 * Reshape
 * Ripple
 * Smear
 * Spherize
 * Transform
 * Turbulent Displace
 * Twirl
 * Warp
 * Wave Warp

Expression Controls

 * Angle Control
 * Checkbox Control
 * Color Control
 * Layer Control
 * Point Control
 * Slider Control


 * CC

Generate

 * 4-Color Gradient
 * Advanced Lightning
 * Audio Spectrum
 * Audio Waveform
 * Beam
 * CC Glue Gun
 * CC Light Burst 2.5
 * CC Rays
 * CC Sweep
 * Cell Pattern
 * Checkerboard
 * Circle
 * Ellipse
 * Eyedropper Fill
 * Fill
 * Fractal
 * Grid
 * Lens Flare
 * Paint Bucket
 * Radio Waves
 * Ramp
 * Scribble
 * Stroke
 * Vegas
 * Write-on

Keying

 * CC Simple Wire Removal
 * Color Difference Key
 * Color Key
 * Color Range
 * Difference Matte
 * Extract
 * Inner/Outer Key
 * Linear Color Key
 * Luma Key
 * Spill Suppressor

Matte

 * Matte Choker
 * Simple Choker

Noise & Grain

 * Add Grain
 * Dust & Scratches
 * Fractal Noise
 * Match Grain
 * Median
 * Noise
 * Noise Alpha
 * Noise HLS
 * Noise HLS Auto
 * Remove Grain
 * Turbulent Noise

Obsolete

 * Basic 3D
 * Basic Text
 * Lightning
 * Path Text

Paint

 * Paint
 * Vector Paint

Perspective

 * 3D Glasses
 * Bevel Alpha
 * Bevel Edges
 * CC Cylinder
 * CC Sphere
 * CC Spotlight
 * Drop Shadow
 * Radial Shadow

Simulation

 * Card Dance
 * Caustics
 * CC Ball Action
 * CC Bubbles
 * CC Drizzle
 * CC Hair
 * CC Mr. Mercury
 * CC Particle Systems II
 * CC Particle World
 * CC Pixel Poly
 * CC Rain
 * CC Scatterize
 * CC Snow
 * CC Star Burst
 * Foam
 * Particle Playground
 * Shatter
 * Wave World

Stylize

 * Brush Strokes
 * Cartoon
 * CC Burn Film
 * CC Glass
 * CC Kaleida
 * CC Mr. Smoothie
 * CC RepeTile
 * CC Threshold
 * CC Threshold RGB
 * Color Emboss
 * Emboss
 * Find Edges
 * Glow
 * Mosaic
 * Motion Tile
 * Posterize
 * Roughen Edges
 * Scatter
 * Strobe Light
 * Texturize
 * Threshold

Synthetic Aperature

 * SA Color Finesse 2

Text

 * Numbers
 * Timecode

Time

 * CC Force Motion Blur
 * CC Time Blend
 * CC Time Blend FX
 * CC Wide Time
 * Echo
 * Posterize Time
 * Time Difference
 * Time Displacement
 * Timewarp

Transition

 * Block Dissolve
 * Card Wipe
 * CC Glass Wipe
 * CC Grid Wipe
 * CC Image Wipe
 * CC Jaws
 * CC Light Wipe
 * CC Radial Scale Wipe
 * CC Scale Wipe
 * CC Twister
 * Gradient Wipe
 * Iris Wipe
 * Linear Wipe
 * Radial Wipe
 * Venetian Blinds

Utility

 * Cineon Converter
 * Color Profile Converter
 * Grow Bounds
 * HDR Compander
 * HDR Highlight Compression

Related Topics

 * Plug-ins
 * Scripts
 * Expressions
 * Motion Graphic Libraries
 * Explaining Effects and methods through Java (not Javascript which is used by AE)