Ziframe - Generative AI inside of After Effects

Ziframe is an After Effects extension that allows you to use generative AI directly inside of After Effects. It provides access to various cloud models via Fal.ai and makes them easy to use directly in After Effects.

I built it for myself to address a some of the pain points of using ai and working in after effects :

• Constant context switching between Ae and the browser
• The very tedious flow of Generating an image with ai → downloading file → moving file to project folder → importing file to Ae → moving it to the timeline → making adjustements with After → Exporting the image → Opening a video generation tool to make it move → etc.
• Juggling between so many tools and subscriptiongs

The idea of Ziframe is having a clean extension inside of After Effects to use multiple image and videos models to generate, edit, upscale and extend assets. It takes your input, produces the image / videos for some credits and then saves the assets on your disk near your project, imports it into a new Ae composition. You can also create multiple things at the same time with the built-in queue.

That's it. A simple tool to stay in the flow.

On the technical side, it's a CEP extension based on the great great boilerplate starter by Hyperbrew.

The extension communicates with our main web app at Ziframe.com via a REST API. It's a web app built with Laravel, that handles the authentication, the credits, the generation, the storage and the delivery of the assets.

The extension is available for free on the ziframe.com.