After Effects is where motion design gets made, by hand. Arsaze puts your AI inside your open After Effects project, cuts the rest of the video around it, and builds motion graphics of its own in Animate Studio.
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A video editor that AI assistants operate, with a panel for After Effects. Your AI adds layers, keyframes, effects, captions and camera moves in your open project, and every change is one Ctrl+Z.
Choose Arsaze to cut the whole video, and to put an AI to work in After Effects.
Adobe's desktop application for motion graphics, visual effects and compositing.
Choose After Effects for shot-by-shot motion design and compositing.
The short answer
Adobe After Effects is a desktop application for motion graphics, visual effects and compositing. Arsaze is a multi-track video editor that AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Grok can operate directly over MCP. They work together: the Arsaze panel for After Effects, a beta for Windows, lets your AI add layers, keyframes, effects and camera moves inside your open project, and cuts and renders move both ways between the two. Choose After Effects to design a shot; choose Arsaze to cut the whole video and to put an AI to work in After Effects.
ArsazeAfter EffectsArsazeA multi-track video editor that people and AI assistants edit together, with a panel that works inside After Effects.
After EffectsAdobe's application for motion graphics, visual effects and compositing.
ArsazeYour AI, inside your open project through the Arsaze panel, with each action one Ctrl+Z. Or you and your AI in Animate Studio.
After EffectsA motion designer, layer by layer and keyframe by keyframe.
ArsazeThe whole video: transcript edits, captions, color, audio and export, with motion graphics on the same timeline.
After EffectsDesigning and compositing individual shots in layers.
ArsazeA cut goes to After Effects as a composition with its media, captions and markers. A render comes back as a clip and a saved version.
After EffectsHosts the Arsaze panel (beta, Windows, After Effects 2021 or newer).
ArsazeOpen a browser tab and start. Nothing to install, and exports render in the cloud by default. The desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux is there when you want it.
After EffectsA desktop application you install on Windows or macOS.
ArsazeThe full editor is free. In the desktop app, transcription, background removal and exports with no watermark run on your own computer at no cost.
After EffectsSold by subscription through Adobe Creative Cloud.
Arsaze for After Effects is a panel that works inside the project you already have open. Your AI adds layers, keyframes, effects, captions and camera moves, with a live view of what is happening.
Each AI action is one Ctrl+Z. Before it changes a saved project, a restore point is saved, and you can pause or stop between steps.
Not every title needs a round trip. Animate Studio builds titles, kinetic type and animated scenes on the same timeline as your footage, with keyframes, effects, a 3D camera, motion blur, motion tracking and camera solve.
Every move is plain markup that you or your AI wrote, and that either of you can open and change afterwards.
Send a cut from Arsaze to After Effects as a composition, with its media, captions and markers. Bring the render back into Arsaze as a clip and a saved version you can review.
The panel is a beta for Windows. Generated scenes, grades, effects, masks, transitions and speed ramps are not carried into After Effects yet, and Arsaze lists what was skipped.
One editor for the whole job, by hand or through your AI. Each of these is in the product today.
Mark a face, a product or a number plate once, then blur, spotlight, label or follow it.
In the desktop app, English speech is transcribed on your own computer. No per-minute fee, no credits, no hour allowance.
Each change, yours or your AI's, is saved as it happens. Go back to any earlier cut.
Share a review link. Clients comment on the frame and version, and your AI can read each note and make the fix.
Word-timed captions in reusable styles, and silences and filler words removed in one pass.
Cut a person out of a shot on your own computer in the desktop app, free on every plan.
Both are good at what they are built for. Here is the honest split.
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You do not have to choose. Install the Arsaze panel and your AI builds motion inside the project you already have open, one undoable step at a time. Cut, caption, grade and export the rest of the video in Arsaze, and make the simpler titles in Animate Studio without a round trip.
The full editor, with no credit card. In the desktop app, transcription, background removal and exports run on your own computer for free.
Add https://api.arsaze.com/mcp as a custom connector in Claude, ChatGPT or Grok and sign in. No code, no API keys.
Export an MP4 with no watermark from your own computer, or an FCPXML project that opens in DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro.
Something else? Ask us.
Not a replacement. After Effects is for motion graphics, visual effects and compositing on individual shots. Arsaze is a video editor for cutting and finishing whole videos, with motion graphics in Animate Studio, and it works with After Effects through the Arsaze panel.
Yes. Arsaze for After Effects is a panel that lets your AI add layers, keyframes, effects, captions and camera moves in your open project. Each AI action is a single Ctrl+Z, and a restore point is saved before it changes a saved project.
After Effects 2021 (version 18) or newer, on Windows 10 or 11. The panel is version 1.0.0 Beta, released in October 2026. macOS is not part of this beta.
Yes. A cut goes from Arsaze to After Effects as a composition with its media, captions and markers, and a render comes back into Arsaze as a clip and a saved version. Generated scenes, grades, effects, masks, transitions and speed ramps are not carried over yet, and Arsaze lists what was skipped.
Yes. Animate Studio builds titles, kinetic type and animated scenes with keyframes, effects, a 3D camera, motion blur, motion tracking and camera solve, on the same timeline as your footage.
Open a project, connect your AI, and edit your first video in minutes. Free plan, no credit card.
