v3.0 KBar
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Customizable toolbars for After Effects CC
KBar lets you create one-click buttons for just about anything you want do in After Effects. Build fun, sleek, customizable toolbars with a slick and easy UI. For Adobe After Effects CC 2019 and above.
Create custom toolbars unique to your workflows. Save time and clicks by putting your most used effects, presets and more at your fingertips. Multiple toolbars let you switch between different tasks and keep your productivity up. Focus on creativity, not digging through menus.
What’s in KBar3?
- Fun and colorful toolbars
- Slick and easy to use
- Shareable with others (NEW)
- More button types (NEW)
- Make up to 4 toolbars (with keyboard modifiers!)
- Bulk import and export buttons (NEW)
Slick and Easy UI
- Drag and drop reordering
- Switch between toolbars
- Snap to the left or right edge of AE for vertical mode
- Open up to 4 toolbar windows at once
- Make buttons do more with keyboard modifiers
Lots of Button Types
- Effects and Presets
- Menu commands
- Extensions
- Expressions, scripts and scriptlets
A bunch of free scriptlets here. - Run Shell Commands
Fun Ways to Customize
- Text labels including emoji’s
- Pick from 600+ Icons
- Use your own PNG or SVG files
- Adjust the size and spacing
KBar Integration Guide
If you’re an author and want your scripts to work with KBar checkout the integration guide.
Description
System Requirements
After Effects 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019
Change Log
3.0.0 (Current version) – Aug 7, 2022
– Initial release of KBar3
What’s in KBar3?
- Shareable toolbars
- More button types
- Make up to 4 toolbars (with keyboard modifiers!)
- Bulk import and export buttons
2.0.8 – Aug 12, 2021
– Some users were seeing firewall issues at startup
2.0.7 – Jul 24, 2021
– Adding support for AE 18.4 and the recent AE Beta
2.0.6 – Jun 14, 2021
– Addresses a small issue introduced in 2.0.5 when activating the product on a new machine.
2.0.5 – Jun 11, 2021
– URL’s for help buttons were previously broken
– Some customers were having licensing issuesOther changes:
– Scriptlets and script file buttons can access JSON and AEQuery from the kbar variable.
2.0.4 – Sep 29, 2020
– SVG Icons now work in AE 17.1.4
– Purge “All Memory & Disk Cache…” works without needing to remove “&” from command
2.0.3 – Apr 24, 2020
– Works with After Effects Beta
2.0.2 – Mar 3, 2019
– Users were being told to upgrade when they already had the latest version.
– Some users were seeing startup errors related to “setDate”. This has been addressed.
2.0.1 – Feb 5, 2019
Fixes a bug where migrating from KBar1.1 to 2.0 didn’t properly update the toolbar file.
2.0.0 – Feb 1, 2019
Initial Release
- Open multiple toolbars at once
- Keyboard modified buttons
- Custom toolbar file location
- Clone buttons with shift+drag
FAQs
Tutorials
KraftyFX KBar for After Effects Overview Tutorial #gettingstarted
Learn how easy it is to make fun, sleek, customizable toolbars in After Effects with this KraftyFX KBar overview tutorial.
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