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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[]


Blur & Sharpen[]


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

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