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UPDATED
FX Console updated to Version 1.0.1

The console war continues on but this time, everybody wins! Our new After Effects workflow plug-in is now available for free! Speed up After Effects by making it work your way! Manage design progress with the new Snapshot tool and find the effects you need instantly!

With a single shortcut key you can access FX Console!

There are a lot of ways to learn After Effects but I wanted to help make it fun and encourage people to really USE it! It’s so easy to learn about new things but to really master something you have to use it everyday!

Workflow plug-ins can be cool too!

So what does it do? 
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Main Features:

• Access FX & Presets quickly
• Create FX Shortcuts
• Create FX Overrides
• Customize FX Search
• Export Snapshot with PNG
• Access Multiple Snapshots
• Automatic Snapshot Tool & Gallery
• Sample colors from Gallery
• Re-import directly from Gallery
• Dockable Panel & More!

After Effects Requirements:
Adobe After Effects CC and above (Including CC2014)

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INCOMING PATCH V1.0.1
We’ve identified a few interesting bugs that causes the menu to show up incorrectly for some users. So… we’re fixing it.  No refunds!! Update coming ASAP! We are also going to get it to work with any AE Language!

FX Console v1.0.1. Tons of bug fixes and new options! Soon!

A video posted by Video Copilot (@andrewkramer) on Oct 31, 2016 at 3:07pm PDT

Our new workflow utility now has some graphics!

Introducing FX Console our new plug-in for After Effects that has been slowly developed over time as my personal utility to improve my workflow. It offers a variety of small features that make a big difference for people who spend a lot of time working in After Effects!

Right now we are working on some last minute OS X bugs and will be publishing as soon as it’s ready!

We look forward to releasing it soon for Free!

Workflow plugin origin story #AfterEffects

A video posted by Video Copilot (@andrewkramer) on Oct 14, 2016 at 2:21pm PDT

Workflow plugin origin story #AfterEffects

A video posted by Video Copilot (@andrewkramer) on Oct 14, 2016 at 2:21pm PDT

Working on a new workflow plugin for after effects!

A video posted by Video Copilot (@andrewkramer) on Oct 13, 2016 at 7:22pm PDT

Some cool news to announce! We have just finished recording a horrifying new blog show with a frightening theme! But more on that next week!

Another exciting development is a a new workflow plug-in for After Effects! Coming this week!

Now, this plug-in doesn’t make light sabers or energy fx, it might not even change your life, but this utility we developed will speed up your AE work flow! Embarrassingly enough, the development began last year when I started working on Intercept! And while I am still finishing the VFX for my short, this new plug-in is done and so we’re going to release it! Is that progress!? I DON’T KNOW!!

The good news is we’re jamming on a lot of projects behind the scenes, but this year has been a very humbling and rejuvenating experience for me. And it is simply managing ideas and execution. How do we continue to push ourselves creatively and build better consistency… I don’t know if we have it all figured out, but at least we are asking the right questions now!

For example : Here was my thought process on the Saber plug-in:

1. Man, my short film is taking way too long I need to release something cool now that I’m back from Star Wars!
2. Let’s release the Saber plug-in. That thing is pretty cool!
3. I haven’t posted cool stuff in a while though, This plug-in needs to be sweet!
4. I Should make a trailer too! How long will that take?
5. S#!T The plug-in is just not good enough yet and it comes out in two days!
6. Let’s add more features! Let’s add displacement noise and presets! We can make it!
7. Crap! We’re late! Now this thing really has to be amazing! Let’s add text outlines and mask shapes too!
8. What have we done!

Being late because of high expectations makes my expectations higher. A dangerous loop.

So you can see the real challenge is I want to make awesome stuff but it’s easy to underestimate how much time it takes to pull it off! (Cough Cough, Intercept!)

This year we added some fantastic new people to the VC Team and I’m able to get everyone more involved in our shows and do more simultaneous projects that are spread out over time so there are things always in development and more people can be involved in finishing projects.

I think at the end of the day, walking around with a Video Copilot apron has really helped my focus!

Office is on fire now!

A photo posted by Video Copilot (@andrewkramer) on Sep 28, 2016 at 12:42pm PDT