mouzmic: every feature, listed
Puts moving four-colour light on text, shape and footage layers using After Effects' own effects, driven by editable, keyframeable Expression Controls. 36 tools, presets, styles, effects and actions in 6 groups. mouzmic comes with mouzeclick: one plan with everything included, $25 a month.
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- ApplyAction
Puts the current look on the selected layers as an editable effect stack, updating in place if mouzmic is already there.
- UpdateAction
Rebuilds mouzmic on selected layers, restoring missing effects and order and relinking duplicates, while keeping each layer's own settings.
- RemoveAction
Takes the mouzmic controls and effects off the selected layers, including older painted field layers, in one undo step.
- LiveTool
When ticked, panel changes go straight to selected layers that already have mouzmic.
- UndoAction
Steps the panel's look settings back one change (Ctrl+Z).
- RedoAction
Steps the panel's look settings forward again after an undo (Ctrl+Shift+Z).
Looks 11
- AuroraPreset
Teal, violet, blue and mint lights with calm motion, medium flow and soft glow.
- Neon EdgePreset
Pink, blue, cyan and purple lights moving faster, with strong glow and pronounced edge depth.
- Glass LightPreset
Pale white, light blue and lilac lights, slow and large, with strong edge depth and subtle grain.
- SunsetPreset
Orange, pink, gold and purple lights with medium flow and glow.
- OceanPreset
Blue, cyan, navy and aqua lights with large blobs and stronger liquid flow.
- Mono SilverPreset
Grey and silver lights moving slowly, with strong edge depth and heavier grain.
- Midnight InkPreset
Dark navy, indigo and violet lights with a stronger glow.
- Mint FizzPreset
Mint, pale mint, cyan and lime lights moving a little faster with light grain.
- EmberPreset
Red-orange, amber and deep red lights with strong flow, glow and grain.
- Lavender HazePreset
Lilac, pink, periwinkle and pale lavender lights, slow with large soft blobs.
- BrandPreset
Applies a calm, clean light finish using your own colours set in the Colours section.
Colours 3
- Colour 1–4Tool
Sets the four light colours, placed top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right.
- Use 2 colours / 3 / 4Tool
Chooses how many picked colours drive the light; two run corner to corner through an even middle colour.
- TurnAction
Rotates the active colours round one position among the light points.
Motion 8
- SpeedTool
Sets how fast the colour moves, from 0 (still) to 300 percent; 100 is calm.
- ScaleTool
Sets the size of the colour blobs, fitted to the layer's content, from 20 to 300 percent.
- DriftTool
Sets how far the four colour lights travel around the layer.
- FlowTool
Sets organic liquid flow, bending and swirling the colour with Turbulent Displace.
- LoopTool
Makes the look repeat exactly every set number of seconds, up to 60; 0 never repeats.
- Make it loopAction
Sets Loop to the comp's work area length so a render of it repeats seamlessly.
- SeedTool
Picks another arrangement of the same look by number, 0 to 9999.
- Randomise seedAction
Gives each selected mouzmic layer its own new random seed so they don't move in step.
Finish 4
- GlowTool
Sets a gentle bloom of the colour around the layer.
- DepthTool
Sets edge light and inner shade with Bevel Alpha, as if lit from inside.
- GrainTool
Sets fine mono film grain over the colour.
- MixTool
Sets how much of the layer's own original colour stays; 0 is all mouzmic.
Share 4
- One shared look for the selected layersTool
On Apply, creates one "mouzmic look" null whose controls drive every layer sharing it.
- Copy lookAction
Copies the look from the selected mouzmic layer, or the panel's look if none (Ctrl+Shift+C).
- Paste lookAction
Loads the copied look into the panel and applies it straight away to the selected layers (Ctrl+Shift+V).
- Clean mouzmic off the whole compAction
After a confirming second click, removes mouzmic from every layer in the comp, including older field layers and unused shared nulls.
More in mouzmic
Applies a fixed stack of After Effects effects (Solid Composite, 4-Color Gradient, Turbulent Displace, Set Matte, Blend, Bevel Alpha, Glow, Noise) driven by mouzmic Expression Controls, all editable and keyframeable in Effect Controls. Picking a look keeps your Loop and Seed. Keyframed controls are left untouched. Works on text, shape, footage, solids and precomps; cameras, lights, nulls and adjustment layers are skipped. Shortcuts: Enter applies, Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Shift+Z panel undo/redo, Ctrl+Shift+C/V copy/paste look. Double-clicking a slider resets it to the matching look's value.