Before downloading the script, open After Effects and go to EDIT > PREFERENCES > GENERAL. In this tab, search for option “Allow Scripts to write and access network”, and make sure it’s checked.
Download the script, and place the folder from the archive in your After Effects folder > Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels
Now you can access it from your Window tab inside After Effects. Additionally, you can run the script directly by going to File -> Script -> Run Script. Make sure All File Formats is selected, in the bottom right corner
Note: Some users have reported that having a different language in After Effects might cause problems. If you can’t run Utiliy-Box with the instructions above, try setting your After Effects language to ENGLISH
Utility-box is completely free for both personal and commercial purpose. If you enjoy this tool, consider a donation. Any amount is greatly appreciated 🙂
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Thanks for the script. I’ve downloaded and installed Utility Box into my AE support files however it doesn’t appear as what you illustrate. This has only icons to separate menus and is not dockable. Appears to be less operational than what you are using in the tutorial above.
Don
Author
Hey! This is the new version. The old version was way too large to be docked comfortably, but I understand if people prefer that version. I’ll try to look for it to see if I still have older versions, but I most likely got rid of them 🙁
thank u for your script and tut, but i need the old version too, please… can u upload it again
Toms
really, i’ve got any “Utility box” icons in “Window” window
Your tutorial is so awesome.
I can directly understand.
But i’m just confused something.
Where to find After Effects folder > Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels ?
I’ve already on my ae folder but there is no support files there.
Thank you for help. 😊
Author
Well for example this is how my path looks : C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS6\Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels
Depending on where you’ve installed AE you need to follow a path that looks something like that
AE CC doesn’t have support files folder… go directly to ‘Scripts>ScriptUI’
don’t have Scripts folder…
use AE CC.
Where is your Scripts UI folder?
thank you so much
Author
You’re welcome!
wow
it’s really good script.
. I love the tutorial but when i run it i have this message “This proyect has an error of expression: error 1 of 1”. Can you tell me why?
Author
Hey, yeah that can happen sometimes. Just run it a couple more times, and it should work.
Hello ! And thanks for your script !
I have a problem with the part expression, it doesn’t work for me and i cannot set the wiggle because there is no spot to do this like the version of your tutorial video…
Best regards
Author
Hey! Haven’t looked as much into the expressions tab when I updated the script, but it should work. Just remember that you have to select a property for any given layer (i.e make sure the “position” property is selected), before clicking to add the expression.
Hey bro, your utility box doesnt work for me :S it give me an error when i run it
After effects error: Cant import the file ”Utility_Box_v1.6jsxbin” unsupported filetype or extension
0::1
And i put the file on the correct folder :S
I had the same issue. I simply changed the file name to end with .jsx and then it worked.
I will try thanks for the help!
It doesnt work for me :S
just copy file from downloaded folder to adobe>ae>support files>scripts and paste over there!! and restart ae
Thanks Harsh… I was also looking for it… got it… under window menu… Regards ,,,,
Thank u!, its worked on CC 2017
Just put the “.jsxbin”file to following path
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC\Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels
now start your After effect and u will find it in window panel drop down.
Thanks for the awesome script!! I use it pretty often, however it seems to not work sometimes, to be more exact I’ve tried to use grid in 2 photos. In the 1st one it worked pretty well, but in the second one it doesn’t work at all. I’ve tried precomposing the photo but nothing changed… I hit split and it just creates another comp. Any ideas or tip?
thx dude for script!! its really awesome in use and i am also really fan of your work which u have put for sales in videohive !! awesome stuff:)
Hay Bro,, Thanks a lot for such a lovely tutorial, as I have install script and place it in the same path as you shown in your description, Now how can I find this utility box option in after effect? do I need to restart my MacBook to find this Toolbox?
Plz help.
Thanks again.. with warm regards
yeahh, I have a problem like that, I can’t use it for macbook.
Please help me!
Thanks!
This is amazing!!
Thanks for your great effort!!
i am not able to download hud toolkit
hello,, thank you for this great tutorial.. the utility box is only working for clone but nothing else. i downloaded the version that is on here..1.6 thank you for this great work
Hi Man,
You are Awesome Man
Big Salute to you….
I want to use this program on my Mac computer. Is not there a Mac?
Hi, Thanks for the Script, I’m always using it, saves me a lot of time!
Can i make a suggestion?
I only wish that it was possible to keyframe properties with the Transform Option
Thank you very much!!!
for windows ……….
thank you so much
hi, i really liked your work and now its been a month m making my own projects just for getting into motion graphics.
Thank you for tutorials.
i needed help for creating this type of effect in AE. please help me with it .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcF1ZM9rfmo
timing 1.17 . the flares i want to create. please help me with it .
Thank you
Do you have the old version CS3 for this solfware ?
Great Tutorials and the Utility Box seems to be a very helpful tool!!
Unfortunately I have an Issue with it, as i try to do the energy trail Tutorial. When i want to randomize the rotation with the utility box, nothing happens. For xyt translation it works properly, for scaling as well, but the rotation simply dont work. Also there is an issue that the buttons become blue when i tick them off instead of black. this also is a bit confusing. I have to click them several times to get them black (off) properly.
I’m using AE CC 2017 btw.
Thanks a lot and cheers!
Just figured out the solution.
Was my faoult as me scatty junior AE Pilot forgot to make the layers 3D. So after that, everything worked out fine. Except… the buttons still turn out blue when i tick them off…
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number 226, style 199 …
That guy is fixing the template and making money.
i didn’t getting HUD toolkit Script
Would you pls help me
Please….help me to get HUD toolkit
My number is 7356612624
also would you pls tell me how i can add Element 3d to my Ae …………please
I am a new Ae user
Idont know what i want to ask but i need this ………pls help me………….please
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I downloaded and ran the script but there’s stuff that isn’t working/missing. For example, there’s no way of choosing Position, Scale, Opacity, XYZ, etc. in the Transform palette.
I think there are some great ideas here but I’ll need to wait on a version that isn’t broken. Thanks for your hard work. Keep going!
Quality script – thanks for sharing!
Is it normal that in the latest version the panels are opening in separate windows?
I take back what I said earlier about quality script as my judgement then was based on the video but it seems that the current version is broken so this script is no longer maintained and hardly qualifies for the quality adjective.
Open source the thing and stick it on Github.
First of all, great job on the tutorials and the script. I’ve learned a ton from them. Utility box was working great for me and then all of a sudden I started getting the following error when I try to start it: “Unable to execute script at line 11. Unable to create image file.” Do you have any idea how to correct this? To my knowledge I have not changed anything with my configuration that would effect this.
Thanks,
Matt
Thank you for sharing! This does a tremendous amount of things, and I’m looking forward to making it part of my workflow.
hey , how to this for mac os plz help
how can i run this on mac os
Hi,
Is this script only for windows, or I can use it on MAC swell
With regards to this error, “Unable to execute script at line 11. Unable to create image file.”
I get it when starting AE if I had it docked. Simply proceed, after creating a comp, grab it from UI drop-down. The components are now visible- and work in it’s previously docked location. AEcs6, window7.
Sorry, You need to create a solid or layer in the comp, then uncheck and check utility box in UI to reload utility box and it will now show all it’s controls in the previously docked panel location.
To fast track all that, just uncheck it before you close AE in the UI drop-down, then after creating a layer in a new comp, check it and it will show up where you docked it last time. Peace..
Bonjour, excusez moi j’ai un problème avec le script en question. j’ai un problème avec son apparance sur after effect… ça ne s’affiche pas comme sur vos tutoriaux. besoin d’aide!
Thanks alot for making this utility and tutorials available for everyone.
Your hard work and time is greatly appreciated Bro.
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How do you download this script on a PC. I usually use a mac but I am currently on a PC and i’m running into issues. It’s downloading as a JSXBIN file and its not wanting it open.
Copy the file to Scripts UI Panels folder, typically: “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2018\Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels” and restart After Effects.
The script oddly only opened when I told it to be opened by Adobe AFCC even though it was an execution file. Nice work. Thank you.
Why does this need access to our network?
On a related note, is any of this code open source?
awesome tutorials
Hi,
Thanks for the script! I run on a Mac and when I select a feature, it opens a new window with the properties instead of being contained in the tab like yours. Do you know why and how to fix this?
Thanks a lot!
Thank you for sharing. You are brilliant 🙂
Hey guys,
This script DOES run on Mac
I thought it was for just windows as well but this is not a exe file!
that’s just how mac shows it by default
find your after effects folder in applications folder
then put the extracted zip file you downloaded into the “Script UI Panels” folder
restart After Effects and it will show up at the bottom of “windows” tab
He has all the instructions on there
great tool!
PS. I would sort the comments from latest to earliest
In transformation panel I cannot use any keyframe. If I put a single keyframe into a single layer it doesn’t work…
It’s useless… 🙁
OMG Thank you !
my i6700k + geforce 1080TI crach…………………………
Hi, thank you for your script its very useful, thank you for sharing with us. i will leave a donation for it. Thanks a lot. 🙂