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Transform After Effects projects

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.

4prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskTake the 'Q3 Earnings Report' template and adapt it for the Q4 presentation. Update all the…+
Take the 'Q3 Earnings Report' template and adapt it for the Q4 presentation. Update all the placeholder text and data fields with the Q4 numbers from the attached spreadsheet, and ensure the brand colors match the new corporate guidelines.
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 acceptI need to transform this 'Explainer Video Series' project into a social media campaign. Break…+
I need to transform this 'Explainer Video Series' project into a social media campaign. Break down the key animations and graphic elements so they can be easily re-used as short, punchy clips for Instagram stories and TikTok. Make sure they're optimized for vertical viewing.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentThe client wants to use a five-year-old animation for a new campaign, but the project file is a…+
The client wants to repurpose an old animation, but the original project file is full of missing assets and broken links.
The client wants to use a five-year-old animation for a new campaign, but the project file is a mess – missing fonts, offline media, and broken expressions. I'm afraid to touch anything because it might completely collapse, and I don't have time to rebuild it from scratch by Tuesday. What's the most reliable way to get this project back into a working state without introducing new errors?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternI find myself spending too much time manually adjusting every element when I need to adapt an…+
I frequently struggle to adapt existing projects for new aspect ratios or platforms without extensive manual adjustments.
I find myself spending too much time manually adjusting every element when I need to adapt an existing project for a new aspect ratio, like going from 16:9 to 9:16 for social media. It's tedious and error-prone. What habit should I change to make my projects more flexible and easier to transform for different outputs?
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.