1.1.x Swiss Knife for After Effects

Swiss Knife it is one tool and unlimited possibilities

Swiss Knife is a group of 20 tools that can be combined in thousands of variations.

Swiss Knife Highlights

Play with 4 groups including parallaxer, interactor, placeholder, and support.

Use it for any kind of projects, character animation, video editing, templates, UI/UX animation.

Parallax

The main purpose of this group of tools is to allow you make parallax animation as easier, as possible.

• Parallax 2D will make fake parallax effect with 2D layers, if you don’t want to go to 3D.
• Parallax 3D makes true 3D distribution between Near and Far Distances, which you can type manually.
• Extruder main feature is that you can make extrude from placeholders.
• Stack is a huge option, which allows you to make linear stacks in 2D or 3D space.

Interaction

Interactions is very helpful to make interdependent animations.

• Dependence is a wonderful tool which allows you to put any animation in dependence of any other property.
• Interactor put your animation in dependence of positions between last selected layer and others.
• Animarker allows you to put your animation in dependence of markers.
• Offset animates all parameters on the same value, but with time delay.
• Revolver take rotation of the objects and links to the main object

Placeholder

Allows you to optimize, probably, your every day’s routine.

• Placeholder allows you to use shape layers or picture layers as placeholders to any stack of footages.
• Piner put your image in dependence of selected path vertices
• Switcher puts all selected layers to precompose, crop precompose to biggest layer in it and turns on Time Remap.
• Alpha Matte clones very top selected layer as Alpha Matte to all others.
• Slideshow allows you to make simpliest slideshow in precompose.

Support

Support functions is a suit of different functions witch helps you with your projects.

• Reorder will reverse your order. By Click there is simple reverse of order of selected layers.
• Bake will bakes your expressions to keys and optimize them as possible.
• Tangents is simple tool to make position moves with proper arcs.
• Resize is a wonderful tool. It will help you to make all selected layers (or items) the same size.
• Slice is beautiful. It’s slices the layer on the pieces, it has it’s own menu, just click on it and you will see.
• Swap is very interesting and variable tool. It changing source off selected layers with just click.