About Freebies
These products are all 100% free, direct downloads with no signup necessary. If you like them, the best way to show us your appreciation is to add yourself to our mailing list - just use the form in the site footer. We only send emails a few times a year and we always make them worth your attention.
Installation
All our free scripts can be run as ScriptUI Panels with a button, if you install them like this:
How to install scripts to get a dockable panel in After Effects
Quit After Effects if it is running. Move the file Script Name.jsxbin to your ScriptUI Panels folder, which is located here:
Windows: Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects (version)\Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels
Mac OS: Applications/Adobe After Effects (version)/Scripts/ScriptUI Panels
Then, launch After Effects and click Window > Script Name.
You can also run our scripts straight from the Scripts folder (see below), or from a launcher utility like KBar, and in both those cases they’ll just do their stuff with no panel.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Some of our freebies work best when ran as as keyboard shortcut. Here's how to install and run scripts with a keyboard shortcut:
Quit After Effects if it is running. Firstly, rename the script file by adding a zero and a space to the start of the filename, for example rename Flipper.jsxbin to 0 Flipper.jsxbin.
How to install scripts to the Scripts folder
Quit After Effects if it is running. Move the script file to your Scripts folder (not the ScriptUI Panels folder), which is located here:
Windows: Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects (version)\Support Files\Scripts
Mac OS: Applications/Adobe After Effects (version)/Scripts
Launch After Effects and click Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts. In the Keyboard Shortcuts window you will see a Search Bar, type the word Scripts into it. Scroll down the list of commands below the search bar until you see 0 Flipper.jsxbin (or whatever you renamed your file to). Click twice in the Shortcut column, on the same row as the filename. This will bring up a highlighted shortcut entry field. Now enter your preferred shortcut, and once see your shortcut in the box, go ahead and click the big OK button over on the right of the Keyboard Shortcuts window.
You should now be able to run your script by using your keyboard shortcut.
The big keyboard shortcut gotcha
When you assign a shortcut to a script, you are not assigning it to the script by name, but by index - it's place in the list of scripts. If you assign a shortcut to a script when it is the first script in the list, that shortcut will be automatically re-assigned to whichever script is first, should you add or rename another script that becomes the first.
Suggestions
If you wish any of our tools were somehow different, drop us a line. We're always happy to hear from folks.