RMXM-001
RMXM-003
Easel
Previews the one layer you are keyframing on its own, and applies easing curves you pick from ten looping examples.
THE BENCH
One thing at a time.
Select the layer you are working on and Easel opens a preview holding just that layer, at the source's own size, so the move can be watched without the rest of the comp in front of it. Then it applies the ease you picked. All of that happens in your comp, which is why the line below is standing still.
Watch one thing move. Then fix its curve.
The specimen above is set once, in the page's own type. Easel's preview and its eases run in After Effects, on your layers, where the result is real keyframes you keep.
WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES
The thing you are keyframing, on its own.
A preview that holds one layer and an ease you choose by watching it, so timing stops being a guess made against a full comp.
The preview is a real comp
It is built at the source's own dimensions and holds one copy of your layer, which renders exactly where the source renders. Closing it leaves nothing behind in your project.
Ten eases, all of them running
Every ease card loops its own curve while you look at it, off the same file the applier reads, so the curve you watched is the curve you get.
One press, one undo
Applying an ease is a single step, and swapping one ease for another lands back exactly on the keys you started from.
Expressions a person can read
Where an ease is written as an expression it is written to be edited by hand, not left as a machine's output.
LINER NOTES
One folder, in the dock in a minute.
Easel is a panel, not a script: one folder with everything in it. After Effects keeps one folder for panels like this, shared by every Adobe app on the machine. Put it there, restart, and Easel docks like it came with the app.
RUNS ON
After Effects on macOS and on Windows. The panel is HTML and ExtendScript with nothing platform specific inside it, so it is the same folder on both, and the steps below are the same five.
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Download and unzip
You get one zip, about 113 KB. Inside it is a single folder, and that folder is the whole panel:
The folder inside the zip is named com dot rmxm dot easel.
MACOS
Double click the zip. Finder leaves the folder beside it.
WINDOWS
Right click the zip and choose Extract All. The folder comes out.
Leave that name alone. After Effects finds the panel by it, so a folder called com.rmxm.easel copy is a folder After Effects will not read.
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Open the extensions folder
This is the folder Adobe keeps for panels like this one, inside your own account. It is where the folder is going:
MACOS
The folder address on macOS is tilde slash Library slash Application Support slash Adobe slash CEP slash extensions
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/In Finder, press Shift Cmd G, paste, press Return. The folder opens. If Finder will not go there, one of those folders does not exist yet: go to Adobe instead, make CEP inside it and extensions inside that, spelled exactly like that, CEP in capitals and extensions in lower case.
This is Adobe's own folder for panels, shared by every Adobe app on the machine. It sits inside your Library rather than inside the application, which is why nothing here asks for an administrator.
WINDOWS
The folder address on Windows is percent APPDATA percent backslash Adobe backslash CEP backslash extensions
%APPDATA%\Adobe\CEP\extensions\In File Explorer, paste it into the address bar and press Enter. The folder opens. If Explorer will not go there, one of those folders does not exist yet: go to Adobe instead, make CEP inside it and extensions inside that, spelled exactly like that, CEP in capitals and extensions in lower case.
This is Adobe's own folder for panels, shared by every Adobe app on the machine. It sits inside your AppData rather than inside the application, which is why nothing here asks for an administrator.
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Drop the folder in
Drag com.rmxm.easel into it. Nothing asks for a password, because this folder lives inside your own account rather than inside the application.
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Restart After Effects
Quit it fully and open it again. After Effects reads that folder once, on launch, so the restart is what makes Easel appear. If the menu entry is missing, the app was running when the folder arrived; quit and relaunch once more.
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Open Easel
It is under Window › Extensions › Easel, keyframe assistant. Open it once and dock the panel anywhere; your workspace keeps it there.
Four facts about that folder
NO ADMIN RIGHTS
The extensions folder is inside your own user account, not inside the application. Nothing installs system wide and nothing asks for a password.
SIGNED
The folder is signed, so After Effects loads it without you changing any setting. You will not be asked to run a terminal command or edit a registry key. If a plugin ever asks you for either of those, that is worth a second thought.
WHAT IT NEEDS
After Effects 24.0 or newer, which is the floor the panel's manifest states. 26.3 is the version it was built and tested on.
REMOVING IT
Delete the com.rmxm.easel folder and restart. There is nothing else to undo: the panel writes nothing into the application.
Support
Email hello@reemix.media with the layer, the property and the curve you were reaching for.
THE PRESSING
RMXM-003, first pressing.
The box is a render, not a product photograph: Easel ships as a folder of files and there is no physical carton. The object at the top of this page is the same design drawn by the browser out of gradients and live type, which is why it costs zero image bytes and can turn under a cursor.
THE REST OF THE SHELF