After Effects

GreenLight DashBoard supports Adobe After Effects project files as first-class board elements. Drop an .aep (or .aepx) onto a board and it becomes an element you can inspect, edit, and render — by hand or by asking an agent — without leaving the app. The result lands back on the board as a video.

What AE file support gives you

• Projects on the canvas — an After Effects project sits on the board like any other element, with its own title and controls.
• Inspect — read the project’s compositions and the layers inside them (text, footage/media, expressions) so you can see exactly what is editable.
• Render with edits — swap text, replace footage with board media, change expressions, add layers, then render a composition to video.
• Presets — save a set of inputs for a project so you can re-render it later (or hand it to an agent) without redoing the setup.
• Agentic rendering — let the Board Agent or a terminal agent inspect and render a template for you from a plain-language request.

What you need

• Adobe After Effects installed locally. Rendering drives your own AE installation; the app detects it automatically. If AE is not installed, inspect and render are unavailable and the app says so.
• The project’s footage available on disk (relative links inside the .aep resolve the same way AE resolves them).

This is a Pro feature.

How it works

Everything runs on your machine. When you render, the app opens your After Effects project, applies your edits to a copy, renders the chosen composition with AE’s own renderer, and places the finished video back on the board. Your original .aep is never modified in place.

Templates are the sweet spot: a designer builds a comp once with named text and media layers, and you (or an agent) re-render it with new copy and assets as many times as you need.

Where to go next

• Inspect Mode and Rendering
• Agentic Rendering