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After Effects tutorials

Step-by-step After Effects tutorials: easing keyframes, text animation, audio to keyframes and subtitles, plus how to install and set up Flexile.

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.

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.

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.

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 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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