A handy little expression to stop a nested comp playing till you want it to

This one is meant as a alternative to the motion-tile method for creating camera shake.

With this Preset you can create noise that woud appear on a TV with bad connection, you will find these kind effects for example in Horror Movies like 'SAW', spy movies etc.

This expression will count from 0 to 100 over a 4-second interval.

In real world of film making tilt-shift effect is normally added by using special tilt-shift lenses. But when it comes to low budget film making Adobe After Effects software comes in handy.

A great time-saving preset to "duck"(fade in/out) a music layer based on a voice over.
"Ducking - Audio Terms Explained - Process of automatic compression, eg when the announcer's voice signal causes the level of music to be attenuated."(from lp2cd.com)

Render differnt comp parts based on several guide layers in and out points. This is sort of like having multiple work area settings for a comp.

Film Burn is an Animation Preset that automatically creates the overexposed "roll-out" effect, where the tail (and the head if you want) of a clip flickers into overexposure. By Stu Maschwitz

Once you run the animation assistant for Exponential Scale, the keyframes are locked down and if you need to change the start or end values, you have to delete all the intermediate keframes and re-run the animation assistant. Here is a way to replicate the Exponential Scale via expression.

After Effects lights can be moved around in 3D space but a lens flare effect can only move in 2D space on the X and Y axis.