JustPaste for After Effects

JustPaste for After Effects

JustPaste v1.2.1 for After Effects

The Ultimate Multi-Layer Clipboard and Paste Management Tool for After Effects

Download JustPaste v1.2.1 today. Consequently, you can break free from After Effects’ single-clipboard limitation and manage multiple copied layers, properties, and effects with a full-featured paste history system. Because professional motion designers constantly copy and paste keyframes, effects, masks, and layer attributes throughout a project, having access to a robust clipboard manager is absolutely essential. Nevertheless, After Effects’ native clipboard only holds one item at a time, meaning every new copy overwrites the previous one and valuable data is lost forever. Fortunately, JustPaste eliminates this bottleneck completely. Moreover, it maintains a searchable history of everything you copy, allowing you to paste items from minutes or even hours ago with a single click. In short, you can work faster and more confidently, knowing your copied data is never lost.

Unlimited Clipboard History and Multi-Slot Management

The core of this script lies in its ability to store and retrieve multiple clipboard entries. For instance, every time you copy a layer, keyframe, effect, or property, JustPaste automatically adds it to your history with a descriptive label. Furthermore, you can pin your most frequently used items to dedicated slots for instant access, ensuring your go-to elements are always one click away. Additionally, the history persists across your session, so you can reference something you copied earlier without interrupting your current workflow. Since nothing is ever overwritten, you can build an extensive library of reusable data as you work. Consequently, your copy-paste workflow becomes dramatically more powerful and flexible.

Comprehensive Property and Attribute Pasting

JustPaste goes far beyond simple layer duplication. For example, you can copy and paste individual properties such as position, scale, rotation, opacity, and anchor point between layers. Furthermore, the script supports pasting effects, masks, shape paths, text formatting, and full transform data independently. Additionally, you can paste expressions from one property to another without manually rewriting them. Since each paste operation is granular, you maintain complete control over exactly what transfers between layers. Thus, you can perform surgical adjustments that would otherwise require tedious manual re-entry.

Search, Filter, and Quick Access Interface

As your clipboard history grows, finding the right item becomes critical. Therefore, JustPaste includes a powerful search and filter system. For instance, you can search your history by layer name, property type, or the time it was copied. Furthermore, you can filter entries by category, such as Transform, Effects, or Shapes, to narrow down your options instantly. Additionally, the interface supports keyboard shortcuts for rapid navigation, allowing you to paste without ever touching the mouse. Consequently, even with a massive history, you can locate and apply any item in seconds.

Perfect for Motion Designers, Animators, and VFX Artists

This script is particularly well-suited for motion designers who repeatedly apply the same effects, transforms, and styles across multiple layers and compositions. Similarly, character animators will appreciate the ability to copy poses and keyframe data between rigs without losing previous clipboard contents. Additionally, VFX artists and compositors can use JustPaste to manage complex effect stacks and reuse them efficiently across shots. Ultimately, JustPaste v1.2.1 accelerates your entire motion design and post-production workflow.

System Requirements and Compatibility

JustPaste v1.2.1 supports After Effects versions 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 on both Windows and macOS operating systems. The script is available as a standard JSX file or CEP extension for easy installation. You will need a standard workstation with at least 8GB of RAM.

Installation and Usage Guide

To install, first download the script files from your library. Next, close Adobe After Effects if it is running. Then, copy the script files to your After Effects Scripts folder or install the CEP extension following the standard aescripts + aeplugins process. After installation, ensure “Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network” is enabled in After Effects Preferences under Edit > Preferences > Scripting & Expressions. Finally, launch After Effects, navigate to Window > JustPaste, and begin copying and pasting as you normally would—the script automatically records everything for later retrieval. Thus, your professional clipboard management workflow will be ready instantly.

What is Included Inside?

The pack contains the complete JustPaste v1.2.1 script for After Effects. Furthermore, it includes unlimited clipboard history, pinned slots for frequently used items, granular property and attribute pasting, and a powerful search and filter interface. Ultimately, you receive everything needed for professional multi-layer clipboard management.

Final Thoughts on the Script

Effortless clipboard management evokes profound creative freedom. Therefore, this script provides the ultimate foundation for your motion design and animation workflows. You can copy, store, and retrieve unlimited items with unprecedented speed and reliability. Consequently, your workflow vision becomes a stunning reality.

JustPaste! is an extension for Adobe After Effects that turns the tedious, multi-step workflow of saving, exporting, locating, and dragging asset files into a single, seamless copy-and-paste action.

Copy almost any visual asset to your clipboard from virtually any app (web browsers, image viewers, screenshots, Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, and more), or copy one or several files in Finder or Explorer, then return to After Effects, bring up the JustPaste! panel, and click PASTE! (or press Ctrl + V / Cmd + V while the panel is active). 

Once pasted, the extension automatically names the asset, saves it right next to your After Effects project (optionally inside a dedicated folder), and instantly drops it into your active composition. And it handles the assets that normally refuse to be pasted: copy an animated GIF from the web and it arrives with its full animation, not a frozen first frame. Copy an SVG (raw code or a visually copied element) and watch it turn into fully editable shape layers right on your timeline

Supported Formats

Supported formats from the web and apps (clipboard)*:

JPG/JPEG, PNG, GIF (also with animation), SVG, WebP, AVIF, BMP, TIFF

* Practically any visual you can copy from anywhere to the clipboard is supported. Because browsers and most apps place the copied image on the clipboard as raw pixel data, so the source format doesn’t matter. JustPaste! automatically saves it next to your project with best quality. Animated GIFs keep their full animation. Vectors are supported as SVG, whether copied as an element (from Figma, Illustrator, or a browser) or as raw SVG code.

Supported formats from local files copied in Finder or Explorer*:

PNG, JPG/JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIF/TIFF, SVG, TGA, EXR, WebP, PSD, AI, EPS, MOV, MP4, M4V, AVI, MPG/MPEG, MXF, MTS, M2TS, 3GP, WAV, MP3, AIF/AIFF, M4A, and AAC

* Files are imported with After Effects’ native importers, so a given format needs an After Effects version that supports it: SVG requires After Effects 2026, and WebP files require a recent AE release.

Key Features

• Paste any image or vector copied to your system clipboard directly into your After Effects composition with a single click or Ctrl/Cmd + V
• Paste files copied in Finder or File Explorer directly into your current After Effects project and project folder. Preserve original filenames or automatically rename them using a custom naming template in Settings. Supports pasting multiple files at once.
• Paste animated GIFs from the web with full animation only via right click and “Copy Image”
• Works with content copied from web browsers, Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, and most apps
• Auto mode detects copied assets and automatically selects the best format to save them
• Convert SVGs into editable shape layers automatically*
• Auto-saves each file next to your .aep project, optionally inside a custom-named folder, created both on disk and in the Project panel
• Control layer placement: top, bottom, above, or below the selected layer
• Match the pasted layer’s timing to the playhead, or to the selected layer’s start/end
• Optional “ask for file name before each paste,” plus customizable file-name templates
• Choose what happens if a file name already exists: add a number, overwrite, or skip

Compatible with Adobe After Effects CC 2019 (16.0) or newer*

OS: Windows 10/11 or macOS

* Note: The SVG pasting (including SVG to shapes) requires After Effects 2026 (26.0), the first version with native SVG import.

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