CaptureFlex

Free plugins that feel paid.

10 tools for After Effects and Premiere Pro: native effects, a command bar, a preview renderer, browser add-ons and a download engine. Try them right here, then download. Free, for everyone.

Flex Liquid Glass 2.0.0

Glass that bends light for real. A rebuilt glass renderer. You shape the edge, set the index of refraction, and the background refracts, magnifies and splits into colour exactly where real glass would. Effect for After Effects. macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel) · Windows 64-bit.

  • Real refraction: Convex Lens, Smooth Dome, Chamfer, Concave or Flat edges, bent through an actual 3D surface.
  • True colour dispersion: Red, green and blue refract at their own index, so fringes appear only on the steep edge.
  • Any shape becomes glass: Assign a star, logo, text layer or precomp as the Track Layer and it gets the full bevel.
  • Blob merge + liquid motion: Shapes B and C melt into the main shape; Wobble animates the edge like living liquid.
  • A full lighting kit: Glare, sheen, inner shadow, rim colour, tint and environment reflections.
  • 32-bit, multi-frame ready: 8, 16 and 32-bit float, Multi-Frame Rendering in AE 2022 and newer.

Flex Masker 1.2

Select it. Refine it. Bake it. Done. Put the Target Point on an object and Flex Masker isolates it from PNGs, JPGs, stills and footage without drawing a single Bézier point, then bakes the result into normal After Effects masks. Effect for After Effects. macOS (universal) · Windows 64-bit.

  • One-click object selection: Place the Target Point over the object. Color Range and Edge Protection do the rest.
  • Multiple regions, real holes: Designs made of separate pieces stay whole; openings and enclosed areas stay cut out.
  • Refinement controls: Cleanup, Expand / Contract, Edge Feather, Fill Enclosed Holes and Matte Contrast.
  • Preview modes: Switch between Cutout, Matte, Selection Overlay and Original while you refine.
  • I'm Done - Bake Mask: Converts the result into standard After Effects masks and switches itself off for smooth playback.
  • Local and private: Runs on your machine and never uploads a frame. Center Anchor to Mask included.

Flex Mosaic MAX 1.1.0

Mosaic and blur that knows which layers to leave alone. Drop it on an adjustment layer, pick your layers and give each one a mode: Include puts the effect only on that layer, Exclude keeps that layer sharp. Mix them freely: censor a tracked face, keep the title that crosses it. Effect for After Effects. macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel, notarised by Apple) · Windows 10 / 11.

  • Up to 12 layer slots: Set How Many and exactly that many pickers appear. Include or Exclude each one.
  • Follows everything: Parenting, 3D layers through the comp camera, opacity and in/out points are all respected.
  • Shape per layer: Alpha, Luma, Bounding Box or Bounding Ellipse: an instant face censor.
  • Lock Grid to a layer: Cells move, scale and rotate with your subject instead of crawling across it.
  • Styles and cells: Mosaic, Blur or both. Square, Hexagon, Triangle or Brick cells, plus Cell Gap for an LED-wall look.
  • Fast: Multithreaded, 8/16/32-bpc, and it only renders the area that changes: small regions up to 10× faster.

Flex Grid 1.3.0

Framing grids, layout guides and tracked overlays. A native grid you can drag by its corners, run out to the frame edges, lock to a moving layer and dress with markers at every intersection. Every line setting is animatable. Effect for After Effects. macOS (universal) · Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit.

  • Build the grid your way: Corner-point handles or Width / Height sliders, columns and rows up to 200.
  • Lines that leave the box: Run them out to the frame edges or extend them by a set amount: a real framing guide.
  • Tracks a layer, frame by frame: Locks to a layer's edges and follows its animation, no keyframes to set.
  • Keep Subject Clear: Mattes the grid out wherever your subject is, so the mesh sits around it, not on it.
  • Markers at every intersection: Square, diamond, triangle, plus, ring, circle, or any layer: logos, icons, whatever you want.
  • Animatable styling: Line width, colour and opacity, plus marker size, colour, opacity and rotation.

Flex Glow 1.2.0

Exponential glow without the render hit. A lightning-fast glow for After Effects: rich exponential falloff, sweeping light and cinematic chromatic fringing at any radius. Effect for After Effects. macOS · Windows.

  • Exponential falloff: Layered bloom that stays hot in the core and fades naturally, like light does.
  • Chromatic fringing: Cinematic colour separation at the edges of the glow.
  • Any radius, fast: GPU accelerated, so huge glows do not stall your previews.
  • Colour accurate: 16-bit and 32-bit float projects stay clean.

Flex Preview 1.2.0

Render the whole timeline first. Then just press Space. The first time After Effects plays a comp it crawls, frame by frame, nowhere near real time. Flex Preview skips that: one click renders your whole work area into After Effects' preview cache (the green bar) and tells you how long it will take. When it is done, press Space and it plays in real time. Add-on for Flex GUI Pro for After Effects. macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel, notarised) · Windows 64-bit.

  • Force Preview Render: One button in Flex GUI Pro › FX & ADV RIGS. Frames done, speed and time left while it works, and you keep working in the comp between frames.
  • Play When Done: Playback starts the moment every frame is ready, so the first time you watch it, it is already smooth.
  • Auto Preview: Step away from the computer and Flex renders the preview for you. The moment you are back it stops, and everything it rendered stays ready.
  • Speed: SMOOTH keeps After Effects fully responsive, FAST works in short bursts, MAX is the fastest. Half or Quarter resolution renders even faster.
  • Memory that holds: A memory slider: only the frames that fit are rendered, so none of them drop out of the green bar again. It tells you when Half or Quarter would fit them all.
  • Works without the panel: Composition › Flex: Force Preview Render. Give it a key in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts.

Flex Command Console 2.7

Tell After Effects what you want. Press your shortcut, type it, hit Enter. deepglow red, blur 50, stagger 3, solid red 1080x1080: 60+ commands that understand what you mean, on Mac and Windows. Command bar for After Effects. macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel, notarised) · Windows 10 / 11.

  • Effects that know what comes next: deepglow red adds Deep Glow with a red tint and switches the tint on. Already on the layer? It updates it.
  • 60+ commands: solid, text, camera, circle, null, stagger, trim, speed, freeze, marker, ease, wiggle, loop, expr and more.
  • Say it either way: 50 opacity or opacity 50. Chain with &. Save anything as a macro.
  • Never guess the syntax: help lists everything; type a command without numbers and it shows how it is written. Tab fills an example.
  • It finally feels right: A real spring on open, a highlight that glides between results, and it never steals Enter from a habit.
  • Signed on Mac: macOS 11+, signed and notarised by Apple. Windows 10 / 11 with high-DPI and every keyboard layout.

Flex Web To AE 1.0.3

Any web page, as editable After Effects layers. Not a screenshot, not a trace. Headlines arrive as real text layers with their fonts, cards and buttons as real shape layers with bezier paths, named, colour-labelled and parented like the page. Browser extension for After Effects. Any Chromium browser on macOS or Windows.

  • Real text, not pixels: Font, weight, size, tracking, leading and colour intact: retype it, animate it, restyle it.
  • True vector shapes: Cards, buttons and containers as shape layers where each corner keeps its own radius.
  • Pixel-perfect placement: Layers land by baseline, so nothing shifts even when a font substitutes.
  • Full layer hierarchy: Named after their elements, colour-labelled by type and parented to their containers.
  • Smart font handling: Tells you which web fonts will substitute and lets you pick the replacement before you build.
  • Send from anywhere, privately: Floating button, toolbar or Alt+Shift+A. Captures only travel to 127.0.0.1, your own machine.

FlexBrowser 2.0.0

A real browser in your editor, and it feels like Chrome. Browse, stream tutorials and pull references without leaving your comp. 2.0 looks and moves like Google Chrome, and your tabs follow you between After Effects and Premiere Pro. Panel + app for After Effects and Premiere Pro. macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon + Intel) · Windows.

  • Looks and moves like Chrome: Curved tabs, a pill address bar with suggestions, menus, drag to reorder, reopen closed tab (⇧⌘T), bookmarks (⌘D).
  • Tabs follow you: Open a tab in After Effects and it appears in Premiere Pro, same order, same active tab. Switch it off per app.
  • The sites you actually need: Pexels, Unsplash, Google, Instagram and YouTube load as real pages, and you stay signed in.
  • One sign-in on Mac: Log in once: the After Effects panel and the FlexBrowser app share their logins.
  • One voice: Video sound follows the app you are using, so a tab open in both never plays twice.
  • A start page for editors: A Chrome-style search box, pinned tiles and 84 editor bookmarks in 12 categories.

Flex Downloader 2.2.0

Downloads built for editors. A dedicated download engine for Flex GUI Pro and Flex ULTIMATE. Paste a link in your panel: it downloads at full speed, lands in your project and is ready to edit. Desktop app for After Effects and Premiere Pro. macOS (Apple Silicon or Intel, notarised) · Windows (x64 + ARM64).

  • Bulk download: New in 2.2: press BULK and paste anything with links in it, a list, a chat, an email or a spreadsheet column. The same video twice is fetched once, a playlist expands into its videos, and each batch gets its own folder.
  • Connected to both panels: Paste a link in the Downloader tab of Flex GUI Pro or Flex ULTIMATE; the file comes straight back into your project, and never waits behind a batch.
  • Built for speed, and it finishes: Up to 32 parallel connections into one file, so it never sits at 99%. Dropped Wi-Fi or a Mac waking from sleep is ridden out for up to two minutes.
  • Any link, even a client’s: YouTube, Instagram, TikTok (working again in India), Vimeo, X, Dailymotion and more, plus Dropbox and Google Drive share links. Paste the whole share text: the link is found.
  • 4K and 2K that open in your editor: VP9 and AV1 become H.264 on your hardware encoder; clips that already are H.264 are not converted again. Vertical videos work at any quality.
  • A library and a browser extension: Every file sorted into Video, Audio, Images and more; Chrome, Edge and Brave hand their downloads over too.