About Drop and Slide

Drop and Slide is a script for After Effects that lets users build dropdown menu controls to drive layers, layer time remapping, and source text. It provides naming conventions for null and dropdown controls, creates basic opacity, position, scale, rotation, and text list controls, and supports combination options with sliding selection changes. Advanced features include checkbox and slider controls, expressions for text layer opacity and time‑remap opacity, a time‑remap frame offset slider, and an option to remove those expressions. The script works with After Effects versions from 2020 through 2026. A demo video demonstrating the workflow is available on the developer’s page.

Features

• Dropdown menus that control layers, layer time remapping and source text
• Null control and dropdown menu control naming, plus dropdown menu item naming
• Basic controls for layer opacity, position, scale and rotation, and text layers with list options
• Combination options and sliding to change selections in various ways
• Advanced checkbox and slider controls
• Text layer opacity, time remap opacity expressions and a time remap frame offset slider
• Option to remove expressions

Best for

After Effects users who need dropdown‑driven controls for layers, time remapping, and text elements.