FXstudio — for After Effects

Find any effect
before you finish
typing it.

FXstudio's command palette puts every effect, preset, asset, and saved curve behind one shortcut — applied to the layers you've already selected. No panels to dig through. No flow to break.

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After Effects 2020–2026 · Windows · macOS in progress

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Ctrl Space
Search effects, presets, expressions…

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  • EffectGaussian Blur↵
  • EffectFast Box Blur
  • EffectCamera Lens Blur
  • EffectCompound Blur
TimelineBlurriness
↑↓navigate↵apply to selection
One palette indexes it all
Native & CC effects·.ffx Animation Presets·FXPort assets·FXCurve presets·Suite commands
The suite

Five tools that share one home — and one shortcut.

FXSearch is the way in. FXPort, FXCurve, FXSync, and the FXFlow action center live behind tabs in a single After Effects panel — and everything they make is searchable from the same palette.

FXSearch · command palette

Every effect, preset, asset, and curve — one shortcut away

Press Ctrl+Space anywhere in After Effects and start typing. FXSearch spans 246 native and CC effects (grouped by their real AE categories), your own .ffx Animation Presets, FXPort assets, FXCurve presets, and suite commands. Enter applies the top hit to the layers you've already selected.

EffectGaussian Blur↵
CurveSmooth In-Out
CommandUnprecomp
AssetHero Logo Build
FXFlow · action center

A hub for the moves you repeat

Create solids, nulls, cameras and lights; unprecomp a comp back to its layers without losing a thing; batch-apply an effect to every selected layer. Favorites, recents, and presets included.

LayerCreate Asset — Null↵
CompUnprecomp selected
BatchApply to all selected
FXPort · asset importing

Pull from any project

Browse another .aep and bring its comps, layers, and assets straight into the composition you're working in.

project.aep→Hero Comp
brand_kit.aep→Logo Build
lower_thirds.aep→Name Card
FXCurve · ease editor

Shape an ease, save it, reuse it

Draw velocity curves on a graph and keep them as presets — then summon any of them from FXSearch by name.

FXSync · music & beat

Put markers on the beat

Lay a tempo grid of markers across an audio layer at the BPM you set, then write the ones you keep onto the comp timeline.

120 BPM · 4/4 · markers on comp

Workflow

The same result.
A tenth of the friction.

Applying an effect shouldn't pull you out of the comp. FXstudio collapses the whole detour into muscle memory — so the idea in your head reaches the timeline before it fades.

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Two keys, done≈ 3s · 2 keystrokes
  1. 1Summon FXSearchCtrlSpace
  2. 2Type “gb” — Gaussian Blur, top hit
  3. 3Apply to every selected layer at once↵
The keymap

Learn a handful of keys.
Forget the menus.

FXstudio is designed to disappear. After a day, your fingers know it better than you do. Every shortcut is yours to remap.

CtrlSpaceOpen FXSearch from anywhere in After Effects
↑↓Move through the results as you type
↵Apply or run the highlighted result on your selection
escClose without touching a thing
CtrlFPin an FXFlow action to favorites
set your ownGive any action its own global shortcut
Why I built it

I optimize for the three-hundredth time you reach for the same effect — not the first.

Motion design is a thousand small actions repeated until they become invisible. Every one of those actions is a place where friction hides. FXstudio is my attempt to remove the most common ones entirely — and then get out of your way.

— Shurk, maker of FXstudio

Stop hunting.
Start animating.

Install FXstudio, press Ctrl Space, and feel the difference on your very next effect. One plan, billed however suits you — or once, for life.

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