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.
Standard AE effects[]
3D Channel[]
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)