A simple trick for animating clouds in a realistic fashion, without creating masks.

A tool that lets you know which part of your picture is too bright or too dark by pointing the bad pixels directly on your footage. Similar to the way zebra-stripping works on digital cameras.

This script creates one new layer for each selected layer in the active comp. Each layer contains an arrow that gives velocity feedback.

Having a bunch of layers all distributed in z space. Now the first layer starts to move towards the camera.

Use this plugin to generate a solid color rounded rect or sample footage to easily add rounded corners to your footage.

Recreate the Edge Softness filter.

This script moves/nudges all Transform keyframes in all layers in all comps to the nearest exact frame for any framerate.

A quick tip on creating "super tight" garbage mattes to aid keying.

If you want to use the speed/velocity of a layer's movement to drive an effect ...

The Fractal Explorer plugin is a couple of free Pixel Bender filters that will generate Mandelbrot and Julia set fractals to any power in real-time.