After Effects Integration: Bringing Motion Design Into Pencil

AI video creation just became more creative.

With our new After Effects Integration, now live in Beta, you can now upload, preview, and scale After Effects projects directly inside Pencil - combining the precision of motion design with the speed and intelligence of AI automation.

It’s designed to help you use your existing After Effects projects as part of the Pencil ecosystem, scaling ideas quickly without losing visual quality or control.

Work Seamlessly from After Effects to Pencil

You can now bring your animation projects straight into Pencil - no manual rendering, exporting, or file conversions required.

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Once uploaded, your project is automatically prepared for playback and scaling through Feed Variations, allowing you to generate and adapt campaigns faster than ever before.

Here’s what you can do:

• Upload After Effects (.aep) projects as ZIP files and preview them directly in Pencil
• Generate video variations for different formats, audiences, and markets using Feed Variations
• Preview for free with 50 % renders that don’t use any credits — only pay for final exports at 100 % quality
• Pricing: each 10 seconds of final video = 1 Generation Credit

This makes it easy to explore creative directions, test variations, and finalize your best-performing exports.

Whats Supported in Beta

The Beta integration supports After Effects 2024 and 2025 project versions (.aep) with:

• Full support for native 3D layers and effects
• Automatic version detection on upload
• Standard font compatibility (OTF, TTF, TTC)
• No third-party or paid plugins required
• File limits: 1 GB compressed (4 GB uncompressed)

If it runs in After Effects, it now runs in Pencil - ready to preview, test, and export at production quality.

Built for Craft, Designed for Scale

This update unites motion design and AI automation - two worlds that used to exist separately.
You can now maintain the fidelity and nuance of professional animation while automating scaling, adaptation, and delivery.

The result:

• Faster iteration cycles
• Consistent creative quality
• Smarter collaboration between creative, marketing, and production teams

Or as one creator in our community put it:

“It’s the first time we’ve been able to scale motion work without losing its soul.”

Unlocking New Creative Workflows

With After Effects now integrated into Pencil, motion design becomes part of your broader creative system.
You can:

• Incorporate animation into multi-format campaigns
• Test and optimize versions instantly with Feed Variations
• Collaborate in one shared workspace, from storyboard to export

No switching tools. No duplicated effort. Just one connected process — from design to delivery.

The Future of Motion Design Inside Pencil

After Effects Integration (Beta) is the beginning of a connected motion workflow inside Pencil.
You can design, test, and scale in one place, combining human craft with AI precision.

Because inside Pencil, animation isn’t the end of production - it’s the start of scale.

Help Shape the Full Release

This is a Beta feature, and your feedback will help shape the official rollout.

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Test your After Effects projects, explore Feed Variations, and share your experience in the Pencil support channel.