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Easily Create Dynamic Grids

Easily create fully customizable dynamic grids and slideshow animations with Slides & Grids.

It also offers 3 Powerful Tools for creating and managing grids, creating or updating precomps, and bulk editing compositions for a project or template.

Version 1.2 New Features Highlights

Random Animate Grid Items.
Shift Rows/Columns Progressively.
Z-position controls for grid items.
Cusom grid items transformation.
Auto update of expression engine.
Option to bulk edit current composition.
Set target layers by selection in bulk edit dialog.
New grid utilities in additional utilities dialog.
Update old grids in additional utilities dialog.
And many other improvements…

3 in 1 Toolkit

Slides & Grids Features Introduction

Creating Grids

Easily create dynamic grids or slideshows using different types of layers.
There are a lot of controls available to animate or adjust the grid.
You can easily add or remove items from a grid or modify them using additional utilities.

Precomping Items

Create individual precomps for multiple selected layers.
Set how these should get their sizes and other settings.
Update existing comps / precomps and can add background layers.

Bulk Editing Comps

Edit Templates or Compositions in bulk. You can fill placeholder compositions easily.
Add / Remove / Replace / Change Visibility of Items in the selected comps.
Target Layers inside all compositions based on name or index.

Key features of Slides & Grids

Create & Manage Grids

Grid Distribution & Fitting
Item Fitting Options
Offset (Row/Column Alternatively)
Add Margins
Zoom Specific Item to Comp
Adjust Items Frame Sizes
Add Masks to Clip Items
Set Roundness for Frames
Stroke (Dashes, Gap, Offset)
Backgrounds
Animate Transform with Delays
Additional Grid Utilities

Precomp Items

Precomp Multiple Layers
Video / Image / Shape / Text etc
Different Size Options
Add Margins
Fitting Options to Comp
Duration / Frame Rate / Pixel Aspect Ratio
Add Background Layer
Update Existing Comps

Bulk Edit Comps

Add / Replace / Remove / Change Visibility in All Selected Compositions
(Based On Set Target Layers)
Distribution Methods
(For New Items To Be Added)
Repeat Items
(If Both Selections Aren’t Equal)
Fitting Options and Placement
Target Layers by Index / Name

Bulk Edit Features Outlines

Panels & Controls

Multiple Panels

Grid Preset Controls

Control the grid and frame features properties. Or animate these easily.

Slides & Grids User Guide

After Effects 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

1.2.0 – Jan 5, 2024

– Introduced “Random” animate options for grid items.
– Manually transform individual grid items with the new “#SG-Transform” preset.
– Added controls to adjust Z-Position of grid items.
– Added option to bulk edit active composition.
– Set target layers by selection to bulk edit them.
– New grid utilities in the “Additional Utilities” dialog.
– Able to detect and update old grids inside the “Update Expressions” function.
– Automatically updates the expression engine if needed with your consent.
– Bug fixes and code structure improvements.

1.0.1 – Aug 21, 2023

Fixed issues regarding using layers with separated dimensions.

1.0.0 – Feb 9, 2023

Initial release.

Supported Item Types

You can use any kind of layer with a valid video source including shape layers, text layers, footage, images, compositions, etc.

Different Item Sizes & Ratios

You can use items with different sizes and ratios. These will be distributed inside equal-sized invisible frames. (Similar to cells in Excel).

Then you can choose any fitting option from the controller layer to fit those inside their frames.

You can also add the mask frame feature to clip the exceeding pixels of these items from their frames based on the selected fitting option.

Slides & Grids Overview

In this overview, learn how the Slides & Grids After Effects script works and what each panel does. Create dynamic grids, slideshows, more!

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