After Effects easing presets, from Easy Ease to 44 ready curves

What After Effects easing presets are built in?

Three, all under Animation › Keyframe Assistant: Easy Ease (F9), Easy Ease In (Shift+F9) and Easy Ease Out (Ctrl+Shift+F9, or Cmd+Shift+F9 on a Mac). Select keyframes, press the key, done.

Each one sets the speed at the keyframe to zero and the influence to 33.33 percent. That is a gentle, symmetrical curve, and it is why so much After Effects motion looks the same: the default ease is fine, but it is soft. Real objects start harder and settle longer.

For exact numbers there is Animation › Keyframe Velocity, where you type the incoming and outgoing speed and influence for the selected keyframe. Right-clicking a keyframe also gives you Toggle Hold Keyframe for a hard cut in value. Beyond that, After Effects has no library of curves: no expo, no back, no elastic. You shape those yourself, every time, or you save them as animation presets.

How do you shape an ease by hand in the Graph Editor?

Select the keyframes, open the Graph Editor with Shift+F3, and drag the influence handles until the curve looks the way the motion should feel.

1. Select the property's keyframes and apply Easy Ease (F9) first, so there are handles to pull.
2. Press Shift+F3. Use the graph type menu at the bottom of the Graph Editor to switch between the speed graph and the value graph.
3. On the speed graph, drag the influence handles outward. Pushing both sides to 70 to 90 percent gives a much stronger ease in and out than the default. For a fast start and a long settle, keep the first keyframe's outgoing influence low and push the second keyframe's incoming influence high.
4. For Position, right-click it and choose Separate Dimensions if you want to work on the value graph, where X and Y each get their own curve.
5. Play it back, adjust, repeat for every property that should match.

The last step is the problem. Done by hand on every property of every layer, the curve comes out slightly different each time. Easing presets fix that: one curve, chosen once, applied everywhere.

What's in mouzeclick's Easing lab?

Easing lab is the curve section of the mouzeclick workspace for After Effects, one of the three quick workspaces at the bottom of the panel. It holds 44 ready curves and six curve types, counted in the shipped 0.58.40 panel.

The Premiere Pro workspace has its own Easing lab with Graph Editor 2.0, the same six curve types and 44 ready curves of its own (21 Def, 23 Base). For the other ten sections of the After Effects panel, see the all-in-one After Effects extension guide.

How do you apply After Effects easing presets to keyframes in mouzeclick?

Select the keyframes, click a curve in the library to load it, and double-click to apply it.

1. Open Window › Extensions › mouzeclick workspace and click Easing lab at the bottom of the panel.
2. Select the keyframes in your timeline. Select across layers if they should all share the curve.
3. Click a curve in the Def or Base library to load it into the editor. Double-click applies it to the selected keys.
4. To start from what you already have, use Read: it loads the curve from the selected keys. Edit it, then Apply, or switch on Auto so every edit lands live.
5. Choose the output in Graph editor 2.0: Bake keys writes real keyframes, Expression writes the curve as an expression on the property.
6. Like the result? Save it under Mine. Export a set of curves as an .mzgraph file to share with another animator on the team.

Bake or expression? Bake when the animation is done and someone else will open the project; anyone can read keyframes. Use the expression while you are still adjusting, because the curve stays one edit away; the After Effects expressions library page covers baking in more detail. The Command console (Ctrl+K) also runs Easy ease, Ease in and Ease out keyframes by name, if your hands are on the keyboard.

Bezier, Spline, Elastic, Bounce, Wave or Steps: which curve do you need?

Bezier for almost everything, Elastic or Bounce for things that land, Steps for a held, stop-motion feel. In plain words:

• Bezier. Two handles, one smooth curve. The same idea as After Effects' own influence handles and CSS cubic-bezier, so it is what UI and product animation use.
• Spline. A curve through several points, for a move that speeds up, slows, then speeds up again in one segment.
• Elastic. Overshoots and wobbles back to rest, like a spring. Good for pop-ins and icons; tiring on body text.
• Bounce. Hits the end value and rebounds a few times, like a dropped ball.
• Wave. Swings back and forth on its way to the end value, with frequency, decay and sharpness settings. Useful for floating or breathing moves.
• Steps. Holds, then jumps. Steps 8 in the Def library gives eight jumps: a quick way to a stop-motion or ticking-clock feel.

My own rule: pick one Bezier curve per project for all interface motion and stick to it. Viewers notice inconsistency long before they notice which curve you chose. Save that curve under Mine on day one.

How do you make a speed ramp in After Effects?

Give the two keyframes different influence values in the Graph Editor: a speed ramp is an uneven ease, with the peak speed early or late in the move instead of in the middle. For example, 10 percent out of the first key and 90 percent into the second, then check the speed graph. After Effects has no ramp preset of its own.

Use one when a symmetrical ease feels polite. A whip-in title wants its speed at the very start. A reveal that should build wants it late. A shake that dies away follows the same shape: hard at the hit, long to settle (see After Effects camera shake presets).

Typing influence values works; it just takes longer to get the same ramp twice. In Easing lab, draw the uneven curve once in Graph editor 2.0 with the Bezier model, keep it under Mine, and apply it to the next move in one click.

How does Easing lab compare with Flow?

Flow, by Zack Lovatt and renderTom and sold on aescripts, is a dedicated easing tool for After Effects. Facts were checked on its product page on 31 October 2026.

Where Flow is the better pick: you want one focused curve tool, paid once, and you think in cubic-bezier numbers you can paste into a web developer's CSS. Its KBar export also suits animators who already run KBar toolbars.

Where Easing lab fits: you want the same curves in Premiere Pro, or you already use the rest of the workspace, so the curves come with text presets, shakes and captions under one plan.

Can you use easing presets on a Mac or in Premiere Pro?

Easing lab itself is Windows only: the mouzeclick workspaces are not in the Mac app. On a Mac you still have:

• mouzerun, one of the 22 mouzeclick extensions: make your own one-click buttons, and one kind of button sets an ease on the selected keyframes.
• The After Effects Tool wheel, with an Easing, keyframes group one flick away on F10.
• mouzesaas, whose product-video tools come with smooth eases: Soft, Glide, Snappy, Build up, Overshoot and Bounce.

In Premiere Pro, the built-in way is right-click a keyframe › Temporal Interpolation › Ease In or Ease Out. On Windows, the Premiere Pro workspace's Easing lab lists the keyframed properties of the selected clip; tick the ones to ease and Apply bakes the curve into their keyframes. On Windows or Mac, mouzestate keys a clip between a start and end look with four kinds of easing: Curve (nine shapes, eased in, out or both), your own curve with two handles, Spring or Bounce. More in Premiere Pro tools and on the Mac page.

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Checked on 2026-10-31. Prices and features change: each link goes to the maker's own page.

1. aescripts: Flow (checked 31 Oct 2026)

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