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The industry-standard animation and creative compositing app, After Effects lets you design and deliver professional motion graphics and visual effects for film, TV, video, and web. Extend the capabilities of After Effects using plug-ins, scripts, and panels that integrate seamlessly into existing workflows.

 

Learn about and download the SDK or documentation of your choice below, browse through the other development resources available, and find answers to questions in the appropriate developer forum below.

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New to After Effects? These resources can help you become familiar with user workflows.

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Technical Write-ups

XMP metadata in Creative Suite 4 Production Premium

Dan Ebberts

Experience first-hand how XMP metadata improves many common editing, asset tracking, animating, and compositing tasks -- and even enables new capabilities, such as searching a video according to the spoken words in its soundtrack.

Integrating 3D applications with After Effects – Part 1: Working with UV data

Lutz Albrecht

Learn how to export UV data from your favorite 3D application for compositing in After Effects.

Integrating 3D applications with After Effects – Part 2: Working with mattes and channels

Lutz Albrecht

Create alpha and RGB mattes and object buffers in your favorite 3D applications for compositing in After Effects, as well as work with OpenEXR plug-ins.

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