AI for After Effects that animates inside your project.
Sekondo connects Claude or ChatGPT to After Effects. You describe the animation you want and your assistant builds it in your project, with compositions, layers and expressions you can edit.
What Sekondo does in After Effects.
It learns from you, and this is just a sample. If After Effects can do it, Sekondo does it.
- Applies and adjusts Contour Paint, the new effect in After Effects 26.5 (beta), just by asking.
- Builds animations from scratch: one composition per piece, each element cut into pieces with its own mask and its anchor point centred.
- Animates from one control with expressions, without setting keyframes one by one, and leaves it in plain sight for you to adjust.
- Customises a purchased template for your brand: typefaces, colours - including the ones the control layer does not reach, text, logo and screens.
- Fixes templates that break when opened in an After Effects set to another language.
- Checks text driven by expressions, which is the text that fails without warning.
- Names, colour-codes and orders the layers.
- Gives every scene the pace and the time it needs.
- Duplicates the titles by language, translates them without changing the animation and sorts them into compositions by language.
- Edits a complete video and adds its titles, command by command.
- Explains what it has done and opens the panel where each property lives.
- Creates shape, text, solid, null, adjustment, light and camera layers.
- Animates with editable motion - wiggle, loops, easing and speed - or with bounce, anticipation and stretch.
- Draws real Bézier paths and masks, with every point editable, and trim paths.
- Restructures compositions, changes the palette and retimes entire animations.
- Recreates a reference image as named shape layers.
- Applies named text styles to every text layer.
- Places layers in a grid, a circle, a spiral or a halftone.
- Simulates motion with physics: gravity, bounce, friction and mass.
- Works from a storyboard sketch.
- Writes expressions from what you describe, applies them and tests them.
- Staggers layers by the frames you tell it and adds fades to the selected ones.
- Checks the spelling of every text layer.
- Renders several compositions at once, each with its own format and destination.
- Generates an animation with code - HTML, SVG or React - and imports it as footage or as shape layers with their controls.
- Reorganises the project and imports the files you tell it.
How to brief it.
Like someone who just walked into the studio: it knows After Effects and knows nothing about your client. You tell it which project, what you want and the judgement to apply. Before touching anything it reads the whole thing, and when it is done it tells you what has changed. Each command is a single step in the history: if you do not like it, Cmd+Z and it is back as it was.
It works on your computer, with your Claude or your ChatGPT. The file never leaves your machine.
After Effects tasks Sekondo solves, step by step.
How do I customize an After Effects template I bought?
Sekondo customizes a purchased template for your brand: typefaces, colors (including the ones the control layer doesn’t reach), text, logo and screens.
How to ask: “Customize this template with my typeface, my colors, my logo and this text.”
Why does my After Effects template throw an error when I open it in another language, and how do I fix it?
Sekondo fixes templates that break when they are opened in an After Effects set to another language, and checks the text driven by expressions, which is what fails without warning.
How to ask: “This template shows a disabled expression warning when I open it: check it and fix it.”
How do I translate the titles of an After Effects video without touching the animation?
Sekondo duplicates the titles for each language, translates them without changing the animation and puts them in one composition per language.
How to ask: “Duplicate the titles in English and German without changing the animation and put them in one composition per language.”
Works on your computer, with your Claude or your ChatGPT. The file never leaves your machine.
Frequently asked questions about Sekondo in After Effects.
Can the AI customise an After Effects template?
Yes. From Claude or ChatGPT, Sekondo adapts a purchased template to your brand: typefaces, colours (including the ones the control layer does not reach), text, logo and screens.
How to ask: “Adapt this template to our typeface, our colours and the new logo.”
Can it animate with keyframes and expressions?
Yes. It animates with editable motion, with bounce, anticipation or easing, or from a control with expressions that it leaves in plain sight for you to adjust.
How to ask: “Make the title come in with a soft bounce and leave me a control for the speed.”
Can it translate the titles of a video?
Yes. It duplicates the titles by language, translates them without changing the animation and spreads them across one composition per language.
How to ask: “Translate the titles into English and Portuguese, each language in its own composition.”
Can it fix a template that breaks when it is opened?
Yes. It finds why a template made in another language fails, fixes it and checks the text driven by expressions, which is the text that fails without warning.
How to ask: “This template throws errors when I open it: fix it without changing the animation.”
Can it build an animation from scratch?
Yes. One composition per piece, each element with its mask and its anchor point centred, and the pace each scene needs.
How to ask: “Animate this logo: draw the symbol and then bring in the name.”
Can it write expressions for me?
Yes. It writes the expression from what you describe, applies it and checks that it works.
How to ask: “Make this circle move with a soft wiggle that I can adjust.”
Can it start the render of several compositions?
Yes. It sends them together to the queue, one per format and destination.
How to ask: “Render the four versions as MP4 into the Deliveries folder.”
Can it use the new Contour Paint?
Yes. It is the new effect in After Effects 26.5 (beta) and it applies and adjusts it just by being asked.
How to ask: “Apply Contour Paint to the logo with a thick, gold stroke.”
Does it explain what it does?
If you ask, yes, and inside your project: it opens the panel where the property it touched lives. The difference between reading how it is done and seeing it done in your own file is enormous.
Does it work with Claude and with ChatGPT?
With Claude and with ChatGPT, always in the desktop app. It is explained in the Docs.
You create.
Sekondo does the rest.
