A curve editor panel for After Effects that puts easing on a single readable graph, with a saveable preset library so a whole project can share one motion feel.
Flow is a small panel that fixes one of the most annoying parts of animating in After Effects. The native graph editor is powerful but fiddly, and setting the same easing on forty keyframe pairs by dragging handles is slow and inconsistent. Flow gives you a single large curve, you shape it once, and it applies to every selected keyframe pair at once.
The curve itself is the whole interface. Two control points, drag them where you want, and the panel shows the resulting motion live. Because everything is one visible shape, you can actually see the difference between a soft ease out and an aggressive one instead of guessing from handle positions in a cramped timeline. It works on position, scale, rotation, opacity, effect sliders, shape layer properties, masks, and anything else that takes a keyframe.
The preset library is why it ends up on every project rather than every shot. Save a curve with a name, and it appears in a list you can reuse anywhere. That means a whole piece of work can share one motion language, and anyone else opening the project can apply the identical feel rather than approximating it. Presets can be exported and imported as a set, so a studio can hand a house library around.
Small conveniences make up the rest of it. Cubic bezier strings can be pasted straight in from the web easing sites that designers already use, so a motion spec handed over as numbers goes in exactly. Curves can be applied to spatial as well as temporal interpolation. There is a keyboard shortcut for applying the last used curve, which turns the whole operation into one keystroke once you have settled on a feel.
Read the whole list before you start. Most of the reports that come into the desk about this title turn out to be a step taken out of order.
| Processor | Whatever runs your After Effects install |
|---|---|
| Memory | Same as After Effects, the panel itself is negligible |
| Graphics | Not applicable |
| Storage | 60 MB free |
| Display | 1920 by 1080 recommended so the curve area stays large |
The scripting preference for allowing scripts to write files must be enabled or the preset library cannot save.
Install it after After Effects, not before. Installing first leaves the panel in the wrong directory.
| Title | Aescripts Flow for After Effects |
|---|---|
| Developer | Aescripts |
| Version | 1.5.1 |
| Category | Video & Audio |
| Release type | Full version |
| Operating system | Windows 11, Windows 10 (64 bit) |
| Architecture | x64 |
| Interface language | English |
| Archive size | 18.2 MB |
| File name | aescripts_flow_1.5.1_ae_panel.rar |
| Shelf updated | 1 week ago |
| Total downloads | 155,660 |
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