10 Ways to Get Faster in After Effects | Workflow Tips & Techniques

In this quick and simple tutorial, I'll be sharing my top 10 methods to speed up your workflow in After Effects. These tips and techniques will not only make your project more organized, but also make you more efficient. This tutorial is suitable for beginner-intermediate users. Please leave a comment if you'd like me to explain anything I skimmed over. Don't forget to tell me what you'd like to see next in my video!

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[cejay]

A small addition to the mini-flowchart at 3:43:

Hit Shift + ESC to go back and forth between two comps

[foodalibre]

As usual, nice knowledge transmission! Thanks mate!!

[iamjove]

You are my creative angel from down under! Thank you, so much gratitude for who you are Ben💖

[fasspot]

Thank you Ben for these great tips!! :)

[DanSeekings]

Never knew you could set a 'template' project to load and even get rid of that dumb load screen. That really is a great tip! Cheers.

[obv_design]

Thank you so much, Ben!👍 You definitely deserve 10 millions subscribers!!!🤗

[zmbrsys]

Quality tips. I need to set up my workspace

[azfaru]

Digging these more general tips. It's always really fruitful to take a peek into a more experienced mindset.

[carlherner]

thanks for the template:) and the tips ofc!

[abvhooliganz]

The mini flow is a major key! And I wish there was a similar feature in premiere with nested clips

[joelstylis]

Maybe my favourite video of yours man! I'm about to be so productive. Hat's off to you!

[MrQuentini]

Mini flowchart is mental! So useful can't believe I didn't use it before!

[erikparys]

Instead of nr.4 prerender, I prefer to create a proxy for the render intensive comp (make sure to set up a high quality proxy setting -and switch on use proxies for the final render), I find it cleaner as I don't add layers to the comp that I then have to enable/disable. If you want to go back in and make adjustments just disable the proxy checkbox! Loving your tutorials btw

[DashMatin]

by far the best tutorial for faster workflow i've ever seen! thanks

[zenooheyman]

Thanks for giving me motivation to get busy animating

[KABOBkabob]

I agree with #11 to an extent but it's worth noting that by building everything in AE you have the option to set a single control layer for global color adjustments or other parameters. Though this is generally only an issue for larger projects/sequences or if you aren't certain on a color palette yet.

[josephdente]

Thanks for all the tips! you're definitely my go-to After Effects guru :)

[x-forcefpv]

I really appreciate all your videos! Would love to see a few tutorials on how you tackle projects when you are asked to design it. Like what is your thinking behind a design and where do you find your inspiration from. How do you develop a style and so on... anyway thanks for all the tips this year, you rock!

[Someone]

I always thought Ben had a million subscribers. Ben’s so amazing

[ihajo]

Great video, any tips on helping with layout and alignment? Thank you