Tools

Motion Studio's Linked Colors collects the colors in a selection, composition, or whole project into a palette where each swatch is bound to the properties using it, so one edit updates them all.

Aligning and distributing layers positions them against the composition, each other, or a grid.

Staggering offsets layers or keyframes so they start one after the other instead of all at once.

Layer names are how a composition stays readable once duplicates, Break output, and Text-Break letters pile up. After Effects renames one layer at a time, with no way to prefix a selection or number it in order. Motion Studio's Rename tool renames and serializes every selected layer in one pass.

Every still that leaves After Effects goes through the render queue, even when all you need is one frame for a style board. Motion Studio's Snapshot tool writes the current frame straight to a folder, with transparency and auto-crop to the selected layers as options.

A null object is the layer you reach for when several layers need to move as one. After Effects makes you create the null, center its anchor point, position it, and parent every time. Motion Studio's Null tool does all of it in one click.

Motion Studio's Mini extension docks a custom button panel inside After Effects. Add tools, easings, color swatches, scripts, and AE commands through a visual builder. 

Motion Studio's Grids tool adds composition overlays to After Effects and Premiere: rule of thirds, golden ratio variants, dynamic symmetry, isometric, and dimetric. Native setup requires building each guide manually. Grids runs layouts in one click, supports stacking, mirroring, color, opacity control, and snapping.

Mt. Mograph's Boombox Studio places studio-grade SFX directly into Adobe Audition sessions through a satellite extension that runs in the background.

Learn how to break vector layers and text layers into individual parts in After Effects. Native methods, Text Animators, and Motion Studio's Break and Text-Break tools for separating shape groups, characters, words, and lines into animatable layers.

Boombox Studio places studio-grade sound effects directly onto After Effects and Premiere Pro timelines through Add, Cue, and Swap actions that align each sound's hit point to the playhead automatically. Browse and filter a royalty-free library by tags and duration, preview before placing, mix volume and pan visually through the Constellation editor, and auto-randomize levels across layered hits without manually scrubbing waveforms or re-importing files to test alternatives.

Motion Studio's Color extension syncs color palettes between After Effects and Illustrator through a shared library managed in the Motion Studio app. Import ASE files directly into After Effects with color-managed CMYK-to-RGB conversion, apply swatches as fill or stroke on selected layers, and generate palettes from reference images without re-entering hex codes or splitting groups across Creative Cloud Libraries.