Updates & Tutorials

Flexile blog: After Effects tutorials and release notes

Product updates, release notes, and tutorials for motion designers working with Flexile.

Frames from the Flexile 0.19 clips in After Effects 2025: the Curve type menu with Elastic picked, an AI app’s finished request beside its animated title card, and an O morphing into an A, with After Effects’ default folding over and Flexile Smart morph staying clean.

Changelogv0.19.0Oct 27, 20264 min

Back, Elastic and Bounce curves, Smart morph and a smarter AI

The Animation page gets Back, Elastic and Bounce curves, speed editing, Stagger and Smart morph. Your AI app can now morph shapes, stagger layers and edit shapes and markers. Subtitles run in the background, and Beat takes your own frequency range.

Illustration, simplified from the home page demo: an AI app asks Flexile to reveal a title word by word and calls four Flexile tools. In After Effects, “Summer” is in and “Drop” is still fading in, and Flexile’s listener says Connected to Claude Desktop, Text effect, Done.

Plugin comparisonsOct 21, 20264 min

After Effects MCP servers compared: five options for your AI app

Five After Effects MCP servers side by side: four open-source projects on GitHub and Flexile. Which After Effects versions they list, what you install and who each one fits.

The Flexile panel in After Effects: the Text page saying “Box” isn’t a text layer and listing the comp’s text layers, the What’s new dialog after the update, and the Smart ease tooltip on the curve toolbar.

Changelogv0.18.1Oct 9, 20264 min

Clearer notes, text presets and a free tool library

Every action now ends with one note that says what happened, and the Text and Audio pages tell you what to select. Copy text presets and free expressions and scripts from flexile.io into the panel. And after an update, Flexile shows what’s new, step by step.

TutorialsOct 6, 20266 min

How to save expressions in After Effects and reuse them

Three ways to keep the expressions and scripts you reuse: an animation preset, a text file, or a tool in an expression manager that syncs to every computer you work on.

TutorialsSep 26, 20267 min

ChatGPT for After Effects: expressions, scripts and MCP

Two ways to use ChatGPT with After Effects: test and run the expressions and scripts it writes in a Flexile tool, or connect the ChatGPT desktop app or Codex so it works in your comp.

Plugin comparisonsSep 26, 20268 min

Best free After Effects plugins (2026)

Plugins that cost nothing on their official pages in September 2026, the free tiers of the big preset libraries, and tools that are often listed as free but are paid.

Flexile keyframe-based text animation panel

TutorialsSep 26, 20267 min

How to make text appear word by word in After Effects

Reveal text one word at a time with a Range Selector based on words, turn it into a typewriter with Smoothness at 0%, or let Flexile stagger the words for you.

Flexile’s Animation Helper, the Animation page of the panel: the curve 0.73, 0.00, 0.27, 1.00 as Apply is clicked, over keyframes selected on several layers in the After Effects timeline.

TutorialsSep 26, 20267 min

How to ease keyframes in After Effects, with or without the graph editor

Easy Ease and its three F9 shortcuts, exact speed and influence in Keyframe Velocity, the speed graph, and one curve applied to many keyframes at once.

Plugin comparisonsSep 26, 20267 min

BeatEdit alternatives for After Effects: Flexile, Sound Keys and free tools

BeatEdit compared with Flexile, Trapcode Sound Keys, BeatMarker AE and After Effects’ own Convert Audio to Keyframes: what each one writes, what it costs and when BeatEdit is still the right pick.

Plugin comparisonsSep 26, 20267 min

Animation Composer alternatives for After Effects (2026)

Motion Bro, Flexile, AEJuice, Spotlight FX and Transition Master 2 compared on library size, price and requirements. Prices checked in September 2026.

TutorialsSep 26, 20267 min

Overshoot and bounce in After Effects: keyframes or expressions

Overshoot with keyframes and the Graph Editor, or paste a commented expression. One springs past each keyframe, the other rebounds like a ball. Plus sliders, fixes and Flexile’s one-click rigs.

Plugin comparisonsSep 26, 20267 min

Best AI plugins for After Effects (2026)

AI plugins for After Effects that add an AI assistant, let Claude and Cursor work in your comps, generate images and video, or make depth maps and captions. Prices and versions from each official page, September 2026.

TutorialsSep 26, 20267 min

Audio reactive animation in After Effects: pump, shake and flash

Three expressions that make any layer pump, shake or flash to the music, driven by beat keyframes, plus a no-plugin version built on linear().

TutorialsSep 26, 20266 min

How to make karaoke text in After Effects

Paste the lyrics and let Flexile time every word to the song and highlight it as it is sung, or build a word highlight by hand with a Fill Color text animator.

TutorialsSep 26, 20267 min

Whisper subtitles in After Effects: models, requirements and steps

What Whisper and whisper.cpp are, which of the five speech models to pick, what your computer needs, and how to turn speech or lyrics into subtitle layers in After Effects.

TutorialsSep 26, 20267 min

Convert audio to keyframes in After Effects: one layer, one band

What Convert Audio To Keyframes gives you, its three limits (the whole comp mix, amplitude only, the work area), the usual workarounds, and keyframes per layer and per frequency band.

The AI page of the Flexile panel with the list of AI apps it connects, the Claude Code command that adds Flexile, and an AI app connecting to the comp.

TutorialsSep 24, 202610 min

Use Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor in After Effects (MCP setup)

Connect Claude, ChatGPT desktop, Cursor or any MCP app to Flexile and let it animate, caption and check your After Effects projects. Set-up for every app, how it works, and prompts to try for each panel.

The Flexile panel in After Effects: the new AI page, the Audio page finding the beat of a song, and the subtitle review list. A request from an AI app becomes 1,385 beat keyframes.

Changelogv0.17.0Sep 24, 20264 min

AI assistants, AI-made tools and the new Audio page

Your AI app can now drive After Effects through Flexile’s MCP server and write your custom tools. The new Audio page turns a song into beat keyframes and speech or lyrics into subtitles and karaoke.

The Flexile panel docking into After Effects alongside its plugin and Elements pack

TutorialsSep 17, 20269 min

How to install Flexile in After Effects

Install the Flexile extension in After Effects on macOS or Windows. Covers the required Flexile Events plugin, the Elements pack, updates, a clean reinstall and what to do when Flexile is not showing.

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