BETA Free while in beta · things may still break · tell me what you hit
Public beta 0.26 · Windows & Mac · Free

Big keys for the stuff you do 200 times a day.

A soft little panel for After Effects. Subtitles written for you, beat markers on the hits, any TikTok or YouTube link straight into your comp, easing you can actually see. One click each.

v0.26 · free beta · 50 KB zip
After Effects 2019 → 2026

On your phone? This is a panel for After Effects on your computer. Open vsvxfx.com there to install it.

NEW0.26

Compact mode

Short on screen space? Drag the panel narrow.

  • The keys turn into a column of coloured icons, one colour per kind of job.
  • Every icon works in one click. Nothing opens: keys with options repeat the last thing you did with them.
  • Widen the panel again and everything is back as it was.
VSVX SOFTKEYS0.26
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Pre-compose
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Try it: drag the yellow edge
Click it to try it yourself

Install in three steps

No installer wizard. About a minute. Stuck? Help.

Extract the zip

Right-click the zip you downloaded → Extract All…. Don't run anything from inside the zip.

Run the installer

Close After Effects. Windows: double-click Install.bat. Mac: right-click › Open Install.command. Wait for Done.

Open the panel

Start After Effects → Window › Extensions › VSVX Softkeys. Dock it wherever you like.

The installer copies the panel to your user folder and enables unsigned panels for Adobe apps (one setting, current user only). Nothing else is touched.

The ones you'll use every day

Eighteen keys in total — these are the ones that save the most time. Every key is explained on its own page.

Captions

Pick the audio, press once: your subtitles are written as text layers, timed to the words, with your font, colours and an entrance animation. It listens on your own computer — no upload, no fee.

Beat Marker

Markers on the hits you'd cut on, a hair before the peak — the way you'd mark them by ear. Fewer, Auto or More; type a BPM for an even grid.

Download

Paste a TikTok, YouTube or Instagram link and the video or the sound lands in your comp at the playhead, in the best quality up to 1080p, exactly as the site has it.

Everything else, one page each

The home page stays short. Details live here.

Bug, idea, anything.

It lands straight on my desk. Every version so far came from what testers sent — the more precise, the faster it gets fixed.