ae-mcp (After Effects MCP) — guide skill for editing & clips

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Adobe After Effects automation via MCP: 16 tools for editing comps, previews, recovery and reusable work.

• Type: Guide · Editing & clips
• Slug: after-effects-mcp
• Status: live
• Publisher: JUNKDOGE-JOE (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/JUNKDOGE-JOE/after-effects-mcp
• Works in: Claude Code, Any MCP client
• Requires: Adobe After Effects
• Cost: Free/open source
• Adoption: 87 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

Lets external agents or a chat panel inside After Effects (CEP) drive compositions: create and edit layers, render previews, recover from errors and reuse setups. Useful for motion-graphics overlays, titles and transitions that are then dropped into an edit.

Use when

• build titles or lower thirds in After Effects from chat
• batch-edit comps
• preview motion graphics before export

Install

• Any MCP client: claude mcp add --transport http ae http://127.0.0.1:11488/mcp

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