Best Free After Effects Plugins

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Motion Factory is a set of After Effects FREE plugins for motion graphics. Make Cartoon FX, Particles, HiTech HUD, animated Kinetic Typographies & Titles, transition, Glitch effects, Glitch text & titles, motion graphics presets, 2D animation video in After Effects and Premiere Pro. In this article, I give an overview of the 15 best After Effects plug-ins and their features that any serious motion designer and video editor should know about and work with, if they have the budget. First, let’s go over the pros and cons of After Effects plug-ins before we dive into each plug-in. Pros of After Effects plug-ins. Video CoPilot has a well-earned reputation as one of the most innovative After Effects plugin creators. However, as many of its plugins come at a not-inconsequential price, it is great to see the company release a plugin that is completely free. Saber is a hugely powerful lighting and effects tools for a wide range of purposes. Adobe After Effects CC 2018 latest Plugins Free Download 2019 Full Version, Friends today I am going to suggest you or provide you the download link of Adobe After Effects CC 2018 latest Plugins Free Download also 2019 full version free for you to download and install it on your PC and stylize your best of best videos, clips, cinematic movies Plus many more like the entertainments videos also. Video Copilot are your go-to for After Effects tutorials but that's not all they do. They make some crucial and powerful plugins and add-on packs that you should definitely take a look at. The standout for us is Element 3D. Today, we take a look at a ton of free plugins and scripts for After Effects, free stock footage, FUI and Cinema 4D training, and much more. 10 Best Plugins for After Effects (Paid and Free. Top 10 Best Free After Effects Plugins for Video Editing.

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Neat Video is a video noise reduction plug-in for Adobe After Effects. The plug-in efficiently reduces random noise, film grain, analog interference, and compression artifacts. Neat Video includes adaptive intraframe and temporal filters that together provide the most accurate video noise reduction currently available: Noise is reduced, while actual details are accurately preserved.

aescripts + aeplugins is the defacto source for the best tools for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, including effects, automation, animation, 3D, 360/VR, tracking, text, rotoscoping and more.

Automatic Duck Ximport AE is a powerful After Effects plug-in from Automatic Duck that imports XML files from Final Cut Pro X. This solution offers the most complete workflow for translating a timeline from Final Cut Pro X to Adobe After Effects, including Compound Clips, transforms, retimings, and third-party plug-ins.

FxTiles
3D filters and transitions with flexible animation controls and many built-in presets.

Boris Continuum Complete AE
Boris Continuum Complete AE delivers the most comprehensive VFX plug-in suite ever created for Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. A whopping 200+ filters include 3D particle effects, image restoration and touchup tools, true 3D lens flares and volumetric lighting effects, keys and mattes, extrusions, color grading tools, time-based effects, blurs, glows, and cinematic effects such as film glow, film grain, and film process looks. Over 1,000 professionally-designed presets are included free with every installation of BCC. Customers can freely share their own presets and build customized preset collections tuned to the specific needs of a project. All filters take advantage of either multi-processing or OpenGL hardware acceleration for an interactive design experience.

Final Effects Complete AE brings over 120 designer effects and transitions to Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. These simple-to-use filters let you create totally unique organic looks with a few simple adjustments. Quickly generate full-featured 3D particle effects such as Hair, Bubbles, and Mr. Mercury; tap into a complete range of unique auto-animating transitions including Glass Wipe and Light Wipe; and spice up your titles with edge treatments such as Wiggle Edges and Burn Edges. All-new transitions, cross-platform presets, the PixelChooser matting and masking tool, built-in Motion Tracking, Beat Reactor for audio-driven effects creation, and on-screen overlay widgets differentiate Final Effects Complete from the Cycore effects is included with After Effects.

Boris Graffiti

From innovative lower thirds to silky-smooth credit rolls and trendy type-on animations, Boris Graffiti is the gold standard for title animation in Adobe Premiere Pro. Achieve one-of-a-kind effects with built-in text paths, jitter, and randomization. Add powerful, realistic 3D extrusions with reflections, bump maps, and lights or wrap text around a 3D sphere. Create your own custom looks or tap into Graffiti’s vast library of presets and styles.

Evaluating video compression quickly in After Effects may take its toll and it may be difficult to accurately gauge how work will hold up through the online distribution process. Compression Preview allows you to ensure the best looking end product possible. Compress a frame range directly from within the After Effects timeline. Then tweak the parameters to combat unwanted artifacts, banding and color shifts with ease.

Twelve 3D geometric primitives rendered with a true raytracing renderer, featuring transparency, texture mapping, shadows and environment mapping.

Six unique plugins for adding effects to your film or video. The Conoa EFX Keep Color plugin allows up to four colors to be subtracted or kept in your media.

Wrap and unwrap spheres, bend and flex cylinders and explode cubes. All shapes are rendered with an advanced renderer featuring texture mapping, shadowing, and transparency. All Conoa EasyShapes plugins integrate with After Effects' lights and camera, in addition to their own lights and camera.

Lock and Load X

Lock and Load X can smooth out motion in all types of footage in just seconds. Just select the clip, analyze it in seconds, and play back the smoothed clip. That's it — instant gratification, even on clips with complex rotation motion or camera zooms. New feature: Lock and Load X is now able to also reduce Rolling Shutter Artifacts at the same time as it stabilizes your footage.

CoreMelt Complete V2

From soft organic glows and blurs to advanced color correction tools and instant photo montages, CoreMelt Complete will save you hours of time on every project, no matter what type of editing or motion graphics work you do. CoreMelt Complete includes all eight CoreMelt products: ImageFlow Fx V2, PolyChrome Transitions V2 TRX, PolyChrome Transitions V2, Delta V, Pigment, Gadget, Luminous, and Shatter, in total providing you with over 200 GPU-accelerated plug-ins to kick-start and floor your workflow.

CycoreFX HD

CycoreFX HD is the professional version of CycoreFX that allows compositing and effects work at higher bit depths, HDTV, and film. All plug-ins in the HD package support 16 bpc and 34 have 32 bpc support (float). CycoreFX HD also contains 12 additional plug-ins such as the more advanced Rainfall and Snowfall simulators. Rainfall and Snowfall allow you to easily and quickly create 'real-looking' rain and snow when there is no time to get into a complex particle generator. The HD package features an impressive total of 73 plug-ins. For a detailed comparison between CycoreFX HD and the bundled CycoreFX version, visit the website. NOTE: A full version of CycoreFX HD is included in After Effects.

CFX Path Tools

Path Tools is a package containing two powerful plug-ins, Rakka and Wiggle Stroke. These plug-ins are targeted at creating animations based on mask paths. Rakka is a tool for handling multiple repetitions of a layer that can be animated along a mask path. Wiggle Stroke wiggles and repeats a stroke based on a mask path. Both plug-ins offer controls that allow for almost endless combinations to create anything from very basic animations to highly unique effects and background elements, even from just an ellipse or straight line mask path. Path Tools supports 32 bpc color (float).

CFX Sphere Utilities
CFX Sphere Utilities is a set of four plug-ins designed to deal with spherical maps (equirectangular maps) commonly used to texture 3D spheres or as 3D environments. Animating layers and drawing lines on spherical maps are a breeze when Sphere Utilities handles the spherical transformations required. Animations can then be used directly in After Effects with Sphere, any other plug-in that support spherical mapping, or any 3D application. Spherical maps are also used as environment maps and for panoramic viewers, which are other sources where this kind of capability is important. Sphere Utilities supports 32 bpc color (float).

ProductionLink

ProductionLink allows export of After Effects CC and CS6 renders to an Avid Interplay and ISIS environment. ProductionLink produces proper DNxHD MXF OP-atom files and AAF files for direct Avid use without further transcoding. After Effects CC can import the AAF and OP-atom files and ProductionLink completes the round trip to export renders back to the workflow.

Beauty Box Video is the award winning skin smoothing plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro. It’s digital makeup that gives your actor or model an incredible makeover in post-production by incorporating state-of-the-art face detection and smoothing algorithms. Beauty Box automatically identifies the skin tones and removes blemishes and wrinkles, while leaving important facial details sharp. It’s easy to use and the retouching is beautiful and realistic. HD and 4K show more detail than ever, including blemishes and makeup problems. Beauty Box solves these problem and keeps your talent and clients looking great.

Flicker Free fixes flicker issues in video footage caused by lights, cameras being out of sync, time-lapse, or slow motion video. It’s easy to use and works with both Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro.

Transcriptive is a new plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro that uses AI speech-to-text to generate transcriptions for captions and subtitles and to search your video using typed words or phrases.

Delirium v2

For over a decade Delirium has been the standard for essential visual effects and motion graphics capabilities. Delirium v2's 45 effects continue to be a staple for users of After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. Delirium v2 offers 45 different effects spread across six categories: Natural Forces, Special Effects Elements, Color & Style Filters, Patterns & Distortions, Lighting & Glow Effects, and Compositing Tools. These effects let you inexpensively add greater control and quality to the built-in features of your host application.

Damage v2

To all of you who thirst to wreak more havoc, the scores of you who wish to take all that is beautiful and render it visual debris, and for those of you who have been writing us about all the electronic carnage you daydream about if only you had a way to do it faster, with more options. So we've created Damage v2. All the ancient evil of analog signal defects in Skew and Interference, the modern, coldly unsympathetic digital malfunction of Artifact and Blockade...and now, we've harnessed the incompetence at the source. Two new effects in the Damage toolbox, Aged Film, Destabilize and Overexpose, allow you to go back in time...and not only corrupt your footage, but also ruin the image of the camera operator.

Composite Suite Pro

Composite Suite Pro features a well rounded collection of visual effects plug-ins that were previously only available in-house at a Hollywood based feature film effects facility. Tested in the rigors of everyday production, Composite Suite Pro provides all that is needed to combine multiple images by utilizing compositing tricks and techniques, color correction, blur, grain, matte manipulation, lens distortion, lighting effects and edge blending. Eradicate the most common effects problems or employ specialized compositing tools for combining imagery such as fire, smoke and explosions. Cutout or isolate objects using a proprietary matte generator or pick from a variety of color correctors and natural lighting effects to spice up your images.

Power Matte is an easy-to-use interactive image matting tool capable of extracting almost any object in an image — even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. This extraction process creates what is known as a matte — essentially a black-and-white cutout. White matte areas are extracted, black areas not, and gray areas in between represent a level of transparency. Once a matte is extracted, the foreground object can be seamlessly composed onto a new background, and filter and image corrections can be applied only within the area defined by the matte.

Designed with the creative workflow of colorists, film/video editors, graphic designers, and artists in mind, Power Stroke introduces a simple, interactive, stroke-based workflow to quickly and intuitively perform targeted adjustments. Instead of meticulously drawing exact masks, using inaccurate matte extractions, or hand painting frame to frame, regions of interest are isolated by drawing a few simple and loose After Effects open or closed masks. Masks can be assigned multiple corrections and effects such as color correction, recoloring or desaturation, colorization of black-and-white images, blur, fill light for dimly lit image areas, and diffusion/glow.

zMatte

zMatte is a full-featured keyer that is the result of our experience in creating hundreds of successful blue and green screen composites. Using proprietary matte extraction techniques, zMatte quickly and simply creates mattes with minimal parameters even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. It is easy to use, yet provides the needed tools when faced with good, bad, or ugly shots — tools such as multiple matte creation, automatic spill suppression, sophisticated matte and edge manipulation, and color correction.

A first-of-its-kind plug-in for After Effects, Color Rules is designed to drastically cut down the time required to experiment with color and define the perfect color scheme for your motion graphics projects. Based on the well-established rules behind picking harmonious colors, the plug-in gives you instant access to more than 500 preset Color Swatch Sets — or you can create your own. Color Rules lets you choose and link these color schemes to your layers in After Effects, working with multiple layers and compositions at the same time, so you can instantly and interactively experiment and test any number of possible color looks. The plug-in uses an intuitive interactive Color Wheel for color selection and guides you in choosing your color scheme based on a series of established principles of color theory and color relationships. Color Rules provides creative flexibility while taking the guesswork out of picking colors that will work well together in your projects

Dead Simple Color Grading.

Convert any media to its cartoon-look equivalent.

Stereoscopic Suite X1 is for stereoscopic parallax modification in post, enabling film editors to tailor 3D depth for optimal effect on any 3D screen, whether cinema, home theater, TV, or mobile device. It interactively renders new camera perspectives that are viewable live on an external 3D display. Thus, shots with problematic on-set camera geometry can easily be fixed in post, and content shot for one screen can be remastered for another. emotion3D's innovative software also computes high-quality z-depth maps, which are ideal for depth-based keying and compositing of graphics, animations, text, and shot footage.

CuteDCP
CuteDCP is a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) export plug-in for Adobe After Effects, which allows users to create DCPs from any file imported into After Effects. It reduces the number of steps creating a DCP to a minimum. CuteDCP is easy to use and has been tested on most major play-out servers.  It has never been easier to create a DCP package.

Bikinidots is a 2 plug-in package named b_dots and b_stroke. b_stroke is a path stroke plug-in with a Z-depth displacement feature, which lets you to stroke your paths in all 3 dimensions: X, Y or Z. b_dots is a dot matrix generator that creates a matrix of circles (dots). The color value of each dot is the average sampled pixel value of that area from the source image. Both plugins have a Z-depth displacement feature, you can displace each dot/stroke in Z-depth depending on its lightness, saturation or hue value. The size of each dot/stroke can also be modulated by the lightness, saturation or hue value. The Bikinidots plug-ins has full camera awareness and 3D functionality.

Transition Pack 1

Create more Impact with this set of ten quality video transitions for Premiere Pro. Each plugin has powerful controls to make them highly versatile. Free transitions: Impact Flash, Impact Blur To Color, Impact Push and Impact Roll. Windows and Mac compatible.

The second set of ten quality video transitions for Premiere Pro. A great addition to your editing toolbox and GPU accelerated to deliver high performance. Windows and Mac compatible.

The Foundry has created a Hollywood-quality CUDA GPU-accelerated retiming plug-in based on their Academy Award–winning FURNACE algorithms: KRONOS 5.0. Use KRONOS for retiming, speed-ramping, time-remapping, and slow-motion effects, plus the addition of realistic motion blur. Retiming is useful when you have to make something fit an allotted time segment, or want to creatively move in super slow motion.

Flair

Flair brings eight high-quality effects to Adobe After Effects and Photoshop® compatible programs. Among them are shine, glow, and sparkle effects with 16-bit and multi-CPU support.

FreshCurves

Curves are a very versatile and precise color-correction tool. The native After Effects version lacks control and accuracy to take full advantage of it. Fresh Curves makes up for these drawbacks so you can get the most out of this basic tool.

Lenscare

Lenscare moves depth of field and out of focus generation to post-production. If you need high-quality camera blurs with the flexibility of 2D post processing, Lenscare is a great choice. It can get rid of long extra 3D rendering times. The key aspect during the development of these filters was to match the real thing as closely as possible. Lenscare is available as a plug-in for Adobe After Effects and Photoshop compatible programs.

Lensfeed

Lensfeed shows a camera's live preview inside After Effects: No still frames, but a moving live feed! Lensfeed is implemented as regular After Effects filters, so the live feed is displayed inside compositions and can can be treated like regular footage.

ZBornToy

Frischluft.com's product is made to lead a line of tools that introduce a new meaning to depth in compositing. The ZbornToy can extract a maximum of information out of simple depth images and allows you to not only light and texture them, but to refract backgrounds, cast caustic reflection back onto the background and a whole lot more.

Visual effects toolbox with unmatched features and performance. FxFactory Pro includes 176 filters, generators and transitions for Premiere Pro and After Effects. FxFactory Pro effects are accelerated using the graphics card for unbeatable previewing and rendering performance. FxFactory Pro plugins ship with many built-in presets, a time-saving feature to try new looks with minimal effort. Save your own presets to disc and recreate the same look later.

Create stunning slideshows. The principle behind Photo Montage is simple: select an animation style and a few of your photos, and let the plugin do the rest. Rearranging photos or changing the duration of each can be done in seconds, thanks to an intuitive configuration UI. Ease of use does not imply limited functionality. A full array of effect parameters allows expert users to create unique animations.

Create the photo animation style made popular by Ken Burns. Achieve stunning results without a single keyframe.

A Coverflow-style slideshow generator.

Create stunning effects and transitions, increase productivity, and enhance the quality of output with Sapphire, the complete plugin package. Take advantage of Sapphire's popular features: drag and drop transitions, a robust preset browser, advanced levels of effect control, and GPU optimization for faster rendering. Sapphire is used by the world’s best content creators to create looks that engage audiences across film, broadcast, and advertising industries.

Particle explosions, shatters, builds, reveals and transitions.

Volumetric light effects and transitions with glows, glints and distortions.

Object-based transitions.

An easy to use counter that works with monospaced as well as proportional fonts without jitter.

A variety of animated textures designed to add a dynamic and intriguing feel to your project.

Simulate flickering, regional, burning and flashing lights.

Overlay light effects over any media. For the first time the creation of this unique effect is facilitated by a plugin rather than stock footage.

Visual effects plugin that can create a moody and surreal atmosphere with a genuine vintage feel.

A popular transition style, made easy. Six different perforation types (including 8mm and 28mm perfs), Rounded Corners and softness controls, light glow around the perfs, option to shift the effect sidewards, independent Perfs and Frame Verical Shift, Light Leak OSC and a lot more.

Scopo Gigio

Scopo Gigio is a full-featured video waveform monitor and vectorscope plug-in for After Effects. It emulates most of the features you'd find in a hardware-based waveform monitor/vectorscope combo, but at a fraction of the cost. Scopo Gigio supports all major color systems, RGB or D1 signal levels, and 0 or 7.5 IRE black levels, and also provides luminance, parade, overlay, and arrowhead displays in either line or field mode. Scopo Gigio is also available for Adobe Photoshop.

Mettle creates and markets next gen 3D plug-ins for After Effects. These plug-ins add functionality that is usually found only in 3D programs. This saves time, and allows for more creative freedom within After Effects. The main products are: FreeForm V2 (formerly bundled in CS5 as Digieffects FreeForm), FreeForm Pro, ShapeShifter AE and 3DNAE. Mettle products are created with the creative professional in mind. They offer fast and professional quality products that enhance workflow, and facilitate the creative process! Free project files and presets are available on the site to help kick start your projects. Don’t wait... Create!

FreeForm V2 is a plug-in that bends AE layers in 3D on the X, Y and Z axis. The mesh-warp tool creates cylinders, curves, ribbons, etc. The 3D displacement mapping lets you press a grayscale image into a flat plane to create a 3D image, ie. a mountain range, billowing flag etc.

FreeForm Pro is a feature-enriched version of FreeForm V2. It is a pro-level mesh warp software that can do 2D and 3D stereo conversion, 3D shape morphs, advanced 3D morphing, character animation, organic effects and water replacement.

ShapeShifter AE is a pro-level 3D extrusion plug-in for AE, that uses a powerful and flexible approach to extrusions. One key feature is the built-in Generator; it can be used for organic particle effects, complex-looking 3D text extrusions, animated shapes and logos. Fast rendering times means more creative freedom.

Mettle’s proprietary 3D engine and coding foundation that is used to create Mettle products. We use industry leading openGL, openCL and our own algorithms. Mettle and our collaborators use 3DNAE to create fast, unprecedented, professional quality products for Adobe After Effects.

The power of curve-based color adjustments applied in film-log space.

Burn through, Film Dissolve, Film Flash and Jumpy Splice transitions.

Bring still photos to life and create moving video scrapbooks.

NewBlueFX is a powerful collection of video and audio effects plug-ins from NewBlue, Inc. Video editors, professional videographers, effects artists, compositors, and amateur video enthusiasts worldwide employ NewBlueFX to easily add creative effects and transitions to their digital video projects. This acclaimed product line offers fresh, creative, and innovative techniques wrapped in intuitive controls. Best of all, NewBlueFX plug-ins integrate directly into Adobe video editing software, which eliminates the need to learn a separate application. And all NewBlueFX plug-ins come with professionally designed presets to enable fast, aesthetically pleasing results.