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XC Motion — tools for After Effects, Premiere Pro & Photoshop
AFTER EFFECTS · 9 NATIVE PLUGINS · WIN & MAC

XC Motion Plugin Bundle

Nine native After Effects effects — refractive glass, physical glow, shockwaves, glitch, cinematic gradients, mosaic, laser strokes, path bending and FUI tracking — in one bundle. Written in C++ for 8, 16 and 32-bit color with multi-frame rendering, GPU-accelerated where it counts, for Windows and macOS.

Get the bundle — $55 early-access price · all 9 plugins · one-time 9 native plugins $55 early access, all nine Win + Mac Apple Silicon & Intel Easy Glass — render Easy Glass Master Glow — render Master Glow Master Displace Chroma — render Master Displace Chroma Master Glitch — render Master Glitch Master Gradient — render Master Gradient Master Mosaic — render Master Mosaic Path Magic — render Path Magic Along Path — render Along Path Trace Grid — render Trace Grid
/ THE NINE

Nine effects, one install.

Each plugin is a full effect with its own Preset menu: pick a look, then shape it. Presets only set the look, so your layers, positions and timing stay as they are. The images are renders from each plugin's own test suite.

Easy Glass for After Effects — render 1 ENGINE RENDER 01 · GLASS GPU

Easy Glass

Turn shapes, text, logos or masks into refractive glass — no displacement maps to build.

✓ Refraction, frost, grain, dispersion, edge light and tint in one effect ✓ Reads shape layers, text, masks and 3D extrusions directly, so the glass follows the layer ✓ Four bevel profiles: Circle, Squircle (liquid glass), Pillow and Chamfer ✓ Works as an adjustment layer over the comp, or over any background layer 6 presets · GPU: CUDA, DirectX 12, Metal Master Glow for After Effects — render 1 ENGINE RENDER 02 · GLOW GPU

Master Glow

Physically based glow: inverse-square falloff, hot cores and wide halos that stay fast at hundreds of pixels.

✓ Keeps over-bright values in 32-bit projects for real HDR bloom ✓ Chromatic aberration with per-channel offset, scale, rotation and radius ✓ Highlight boost for a white-hot core with depth ✓ Animates itself: Pulse, Flicker, Broken Neon, Strobe, Heartbeat, Grow In, Fade Out 16 presets · GPU: CUDA, DirectX 12, Metal Master Displace Chroma for After Effects — render 1 ENGINE RENDER 03 · SHOCKWAVE GPU

Master Displace Chroma

Shockwaves, sound ripples, heat haze, lens bulge and chromatic aberration in one displacement effect.

✓ Ring pulses, continuous ripples, heat haze and jet plumes, directional scan waves ✓ Runs on its own over time — no keyframes — or follows a 3D null and the comp camera ✓ Bulge and funnel lens, plus displacement maps from any layer ✓ RGB or full-spectrum chromatic split 14 presets · GPU: CUDA, DirectX 12, Metal Master Glitch for After Effects — render 1 ENGINE RENDER 04 · GLITCH

Master Glitch

Nine glitch components — blocks, slices, RGB split, Bad TV, VHS and more — each with its own switch.

✓ Glitches come in bursts with clean gaps between them, not constant noise ✓ Glitch Reveal brings layers in or out with blocks, slices, wipe, flicker or dissolve — no keyframes ✓ Scanlines, noise, wave and VHS run continuously; the rest hits in bursts ✓ One Glitch Amount drives the whole effect, ready to keyframe on the beat 15 presets · multi-threaded CPU Master Gradient for After Effects — render 1 ENGINE RENDER 05 · GRADIENT

Master Gradient

Cinematic gradients for text, shapes and backgrounds, with colors blended in Oklab.

✓ Fill the layer's alpha, the space around it, or the whole frame ✓ Depth, bulge, turbulence, defocus, glow, optical diffusion and grain ✓ Auto-animation in every group that loops seamlessly ✓ 14 palettes, from Galaxy and Aurora to Synthwave and Mono 14 palettes · seamless loops Master Mosaic for After Effects — render 1 ENGINE RENDER 06 · MOSAIC

Master Mosaic

Split footage into a grid whose cells merge where colors match, then draw each cell as one of 8 tile types.

✓ Color, Shape (incl. Lego and buttons), Texture, Truchet, Color Circles, Color Lines, Stretch, Magnification ✓ Use any precomp as the tile, each cell playing from its own point in time ✓ Photo-mosaic mode picks the frame that matches each cell's brightness ✓ Mipmap, bicubic and anisotropic filtering keep tiles sharp 8 tile types · presets Path Magic for After Effects — render 1 ENGINE RENDER 07 · STROKES

Path Magic

Draw many strokes from one or two masks — noise, sine waves, gradients, arrows, sprites and lasers.

✓ Strokes run parallel, fan out, or blend between two masks ✓ Solid, dashed, dotted, broken or sprite strokes, with arrowheads ✓ Laser & Glow: white-hot core, layered glow, haze, beads and flicker ✓ Motion blur, and strokes that move to an audio layer 15 presets Along Path for After Effects — render 1 ENGINE RENDER 08 · BEND

Along Path

Bend any layer along a mask path — ribbons, arms, text and logos.

✓ Twist, taper and true 3D perspective, with Z and scale per mask vertex ✓ Rigid Pieces keep letters straight on sharp curves ✓ Extrude with bevels for real thickness ✓ Start, End and Offset to slide the layer along the path Effect ▸ XC Motion ▸ Along Path Trace Grid for After Effects — render 1 ENGINE RENDER 09 · FUI

Trace Grid

An FUI tracker and a character grid in one: detect regions, draw HUD overlays, fill them with ASCII.

✓ Detect by color, brightness, motion or alpha ✓ Boxes, markers, connecting lines, labels and guides — PCB, Matrix and target styles ✓ ASCII, block, braille or shape grids with gradients and glitch ✓ Show the grid inside the boxes, outside them, or only on detected regions 13 presets
/ BUILT FOR AFTER EFFECTS

Native effects, not scripts.

NATIVE C++

Real SmartFX effects

Not expressions or scripts: they render like After Effects' own effects, in previews and the Render Queue.

DEEP COLOR

8, 16 and 32-bit

Every plugin works in 8, 16 and 32 bits per channel, and keeps over-bright values in 32-bit projects.

SPEED

Multi-frame rendering

All nine support After Effects' multi-frame rendering, and the CPU paths are multi-threaded.

GPU

CUDA · DirectX 12 · Metal

Easy Glass, Master Glow and Master Displace Chroma render on the GPU on Windows and Mac, with the same result as the CPU.

PRESETS

A look in one click

Every plugin has a Preset menu. Presets set the look and leave your layers, positions and timing alone.

WIN & MAC

Universal on Mac

Mac plugins run natively on Apple Silicon and Intel. Windows builds need no runtime or redistributable.

/ EARLY ACCESS

$55 for all nine — the early-access price.

These plugins are new. The bundle is priced for the editors and motion designers who pick them up first: one payment for all nine, on Windows and macOS, with the updates that follow as they mature. Tell me what breaks or what's missing and it goes into the next build.

✓ All 9 plugins, for Windows and macOS ✓ One payment, no subscription ✓ Updates as the plugins mature ✓ Feedback straight to the developer Get the bundle — $55 ↗
/ INSTALL

Copy, restart, done.

WINDOWS
  1. Quit After Effects.
  2. Copy the .aex files to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore.
  3. Start After Effects.
MACOS
  1. Quit After Effects.
  2. Copy the .plugin bundles to /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore.
  3. Start After Effects.

The effects appear under Effect ▸ XC Motion. For the GPU path of Easy Glass, Master Glow and Master Displace Chroma, set File ▸ Project Settings ▸ Mercury GPU Acceleration (CUDA on NVIDIA, Metal on Mac).

/ FAQ

Good to know.

Nine native After Effects effects: Easy Glass, Master Glow, Master Displace Chroma, Master Glitch, Master Gradient, Master Mosaic, Path Magic, Along Path and Trace Grid — each for Windows and macOS. They all appear under Effect ▸ XC Motion.

Nine new effects for your next edit.

$55 early-access price for all nine, for After Effects on Windows and macOS.

Get the Plugin Bundle on Gumroad ↗ xcmotion.gumroad.com
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