Denis Klepcha has compiled a convenient chart showing the most used keyboard shortcuts for After Effects. You can download and print this cheat sheet out for your wall to save you from always having to stop what you’re doing and go through the “help” files.

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Create a Bad TV Distortion with this quick, simple plugin for After Effects.
Free to use for private and commercial projects
Requires:
Mac OS X 10.4+ and AE 7+
File Type: Plugin

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Generate a wide variety of fractals and even map and animate bitmap images into fractal space.

File Type: Plugin

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This plugin allows you to quickly and easily offset the RGB channels separately to create the popular chromatic aberration effect.

File Type: Plugin

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The AutoTitles preset automates the animation of trailer titles.

File Type: Preset

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Make video look as if it was shot in cold weather with the Cold Weather Look Preset for After Effects.

Free to use for private and commercial projects

File Type: Preset

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KeyTweak is a AE script to easily modify keyframes of masks, trackpoints and any other properties. It is completely free. Usage is explained in the linked video tutorial.

File Type: Script
After Effects Version:CS2 (7.0) and above

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The “Droste effect” derives from a Dutch chocolate maker that used an image of its box on the box recursively at smaller and smaller scales.

Pixel Bender is a new plugin technology introduced by Adobe in CS4 that works across all the adobe CS4 apps. This means the same plugin can be used in After Effects, Photoshop and Flash. And they are installed and used just like any other plugins. You can get the Droste Effect plugin for free from subblue.

File Type: Plugin
After Effects Version: CS4

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Extrude any vector based layer to give it a real 3D look inside After Effects. No more duplicating layers, no more expensive 3D software.

File Type: Preset
After Effects Version: CS3+

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