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.