Clean 3D background with a soft movement. Ideal for company presentations, TV shows and DVD projects.

Stylish and modern lower third. It features an ample area for secondary information where you can add not just text, but also images or video.

This script gives the ability to make your own custom toolbar with Effects, presets or any commands you use the most often

Photoshop files can contain layer sets, groups of layers that are imported into AE as precomps. Unfortunately these precomps are always the same size as the main comp.

Want to have a Day/Night terminator effect on an Earth sphere and use lighting to control the materials? Learn how to create a Falloff material in 3dS Max for a realistic Day/Night Earth globe. Learn how to composite this effect in After Effects and how to build the scene.

This script displays a palette with controls for sorting layers based on specific criteria.

An introduction to the power of RPF and RLA files and how they can be used in post.

A practical application of a layer space transform.
Not very new, but still very useful.
by Dan Ebberts's resource for After Effects scripting and expressions

Motion designer Harry Frank shows how to breath new life or make a retro look with standard After Effects Lens Flare by using Shape Layers and Trapcode Shine.

This is a fairly simple technique often done poorly. The trick to making the 3D extrusion look as good as possible is in the way you use a custom shape layer and the way you assign textures to the extrusion.