# After Effects MCP

> Automate After Effects comps, layers, and keyframes through MCP + ExtendScript.

- **Category:** Editing & Post
- **Vendor:** Community (Dakkshin) (community)
- **Pricing:** free
- **Verified:** 2026-06-11

## What it does

MCP server that remote-controls Adobe After Effects: create compositions, text/shape/solid layers, cameras, masks, keyframes, and expressions. Useful for agent-driven motion graphics, titles, and VFX passes on generated footage.

## Connect

- Follow the vendor's instructions: see links below

**Auth:** local-app — Requires After Effects 2022+ with the 'mcp-bridge-auto' panel open

## Capabilities

`motion-graphics` · `compositing` · `animation` · `nle-control`

## Sample tools

`create-composition` · `setLayerKeyframe` · `setLayerProperties` · `createCamera` · `setLayerMask`

## Field notes

416 stars, MIT, active Jun 2026 — the most popular AE MCP. Install: git clone, npm install/build, install-bridge. For template-based AE rendering in the cloud, see plainly-videos/mcp-server (official Plainly API MCP).

## Links

- Repo: https://github.com/Dakkshin/after-effects-mcp

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