Author - Mathias Moehl

Mathias MoehlMathias Möhl is cofounder of mamoworld.com, a company with a strong focus on the development of extensions for After Effects and Premiere Pro. His most popular developments comprise the After Effects tools Squash & Stretch, MochaImport+, iExpressions and Auto Lip-Sync as well as BeatEdit for Premiere Pro. Mathias is also an experienced trainer. He released more than 100 free video tutorials on mamoworld.com and has been invited to present at events like Animago and the After Effects World Conference. In an earlier life, Mathias did a PhD in Computer Science (which got the top rating “summa cum laude”) and as a researcher in Bioinformatics, he published more than 15 articles in international, scientific conferences and journals.

Align Ae Layers in Column with Expressions

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Learn how to easily align layers in After Effects in a column. The best thing about this easy and powerful technique: If you change the content or size of any of the layers, the layout updates instantly. This is possible with the help of some clever expression, but don’t worry, it is very easy to use: Since we use the iExpressions tool, we don’t need to read or write any expressions code and everything can be set up with a few clicks in a very intuitive user interface!

If you want to know more automatic layout tricks in After Effects, please also take a look at our extension Pins & Boxes, which can create automatic layouts for motion graphics templates and more very easily:

Link Colors in Ae with Brightness Control

download iExpressions at Linking Colors in After Effects can be done very easily with the pick-whip and expressions. But what if you do not need exactly the same color, but a brighter or darker variant of it? With iExpressions you can create links that take the color of the linked property and then...

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Controlling Colors in Ae with a Slider

download iExpressions at In this tutorial you learn how to link many color properties to a slider such that they can all be changed at once. You just need to specify for each color property which color it should have for the minimum and the maximum value of the slider. When the slider is moved, the...

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