Code Runner
Code Runner is a free, dockable After Effects panel that turns the things you do twenty times a day into buttons. A button can run a script, apply an expression, apply a preset, fire a menu command, or stamp an ease onto your selected keyframes, and it can carry several of those actions at once.
It installs as four identical panels sharing one library, so a different collection can sit in a different part of your workspace.
Installation Install the extension and open it in After Effects.
Quick Start Run your first buttons and make your own.
Ease Buttons Stamp custom eases (including bounces and overshoots) onto keyframes.
Sharing Collections Export your buttons as one file anyone can import.
What Code Runner does
Section titled “What Code Runner does”- Six button types: scripts, expressions, presets, menu commands, eases, and extensions
- Organize buttons into collections and nested folders, as a list, an icon grid, or a buttons-only board
- Search everything: folders holding a match open on their own
- Customize every button with icons (5,000+ built in, or your own SVGs) and colors
- Give a button more than one action with alternates, reached by a modifier or a long press
- Dock up to four panels sharing one library, each on its own collection
- Share collections as a single file, and back up your whole library
- Starts useful: a fresh install ships with a starter collection of 29 working buttons
Requirements
Section titled “Requirements”Code Runner is free and works in After Effects 2021 and newer, on Windows and macOS. Get it at jakeinmotion.com/code-runner.