About AE Sheets

AE Sheets is an After Effects extension for video localization and translation. It lets users index text layers by selection or caret notation, apply built‑in or custom language presets, and generate multiple localized versions of a composition from one panel. The tool includes 64 built‑in language presets with options to override font family, size, leading, tracking, and enable right‑to‑left flow for scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew. Smart rigging features—Auto Resize, Dynamic Anchor Points, and Pinning—keep compositions responsive as text length changes. Translations can be exported to or imported from TSV files, Google Sheets, or Excel, and AI translation is available using a user‑provided Google Gemini or OpenAI API key. Batch processing creates all language versions in a single pass, applying text, fonts, and naming conventions automatically. Compatibility is listed for After Effects 2024, 2025, and 2026.

Features

• AI translation of text layers using a Google Gemini or OpenAI API key, with an optional auto-translate mode that populates every version on creation
• Smart rigging tools — Auto Resize, Dynamic Anchor Points, and Pinning — that keep compositions responsive to changing text length
• 64 built-in language presets plus custom presets, each with per-language font family, size, leading, tracking, and shorthand code overrides
• Right-to-left text flow for Arabic, Hebrew, and other RTL scripts
• Font Maps for one-to-one, per-font substitution linked to any preset and applied automatically at generation
• Spreadsheet integration via TSV export and import or copy-paste to Google Sheets and Excel
• Batch generation of multiple localized versions from a single panel, with per-version comp naming, folder grouping, and find-and-replace

Best for

Motion designers who need to manage multilingual text layers, apply typographic presets, and produce several localized versions of a composition within After Effects.