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Automate processes in After Effects

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

3prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskApply this specific color correction and sharpening effect to all the clips in the 'B-Roll…+
Apply this specific color correction and sharpening effect to all the clips in the 'B-Roll Interview' folder and render them out as ProRes 422.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore I hand off these 20 social media ads to the junior editor, set up an automation that…+
Before I hand off these 20 social media ads to the junior editor, set up an automation that applies our standard brand intro and outro animation, along with the approved music track, to each of them. This needs to be consistent and error-free for the client's review on Thursday.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentI'm attempting to automate the export of 50 localized versions of the 'Global Launch' promo…+
I'm trying to automate the export of 50 different language versions of the same promo video, but the script keeps failing on random renders.
I'm attempting to automate the export of 50 localized versions of the 'Global Launch' promo video, but the render queue keeps stopping with an error on about 10% of them, and I can't pinpoint why. The marketing team needs these by end of day Friday, and manually babysitting each render will take forever. What's the most common reason for automated renders to fail inconsistently like this, and what's the best diagnostic step to take right now to get these exports completed reliably?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

Questions people actually ask

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Adobe After Effects's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.