🚀 AI Screen Exporter for After Effects

Stop wasting time preparing assets for AI.

If you work with AI tools, you know the pain.

You create a clean animation in After Effects.

Then you decide to send a frame to AI.

Suddenly you’re:

• adding temporary green screens
• precomposing manually
• opening Render Queue
• setting PNG export
• searching for the file
• repeating this 20 times a day

It breaks your flow.

AI Screen Exporter fixes this with one click.

🎯 What It Does

Select a layer → click Build + Export PNG → done.

The script automatically:

• Precomposes your layer to full comp size (16:9, 9:16, etc.)
• Adds a clean screen-ready solid (Green, Blue, or Custom color)
• Exports a single PNG from the playhead position
• Saves it to an organized folder next to your project
• Opens the folder and selects the file for you

No Render Queue.

No output templates.

No manual setup.

💡 Why It’s Different

Most scripts rely on Render Queue templates.

This one uses native saveFrameToPng() — meaning:

• Always exports PNG
• No template dependency
• No broken settings
• Faster and more stable workflow

It’s built specifically for AI-heavy workflows.

⚡ Perfect For

• AI image-to-video workflows
• Midjourney / Runway / Pika / Stable Diffusion pipelines
• Motion designers iterating quickly
• Social media content creators
• Anyone exporting dozens of frames daily

If you send frames to AI even 5 times per day, this pays for itself immediately.

🧩 Features

✔ One-click screen prep

Automatically precompose and add screen-ready background.

✔ Green, Blue, or Custom color

Choose the background color directly in the UI.

✔ Export 1 frame from playhead (CTI)

Exports exactly what you see at your current timeline position.

✔ Auto folder creation

Creates AI_Exports next to your project file.

✔ Reveal after export

Choose:

• Open folder
• Select exported file automatically

✔ Update existing screen layer

Prevents duplicates and keeps your comps clean.

✔ Lock & Shy screen layer

Keeps your timeline organized.

🛠 How It Works (Workflow)

1. Select a layer in your composition
2. Move playhead to desired frame
3. Choose screen color
4. Click Build + Export PNG
5. PNG appears in your folder instantly

Ready to drag into AI.

📦 Installation

1. Download the .jsx file
2. Copy it to:

Windows:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects <version>\Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels\

Mac:

Applications/Adobe After Effects <version>/Scripts/ScriptUI Panels/

1. Restart After Effects
2. Open via:
3. Window → Screen Prep

💻 Compatibility

• After Effects CC 2020 and newer
• Windows & macOS
• No external dependencies
• No render templates required

🎯 Designed for Speed

This isn’t a flashy effect.

It’s a workflow accelerator.

If you use AI in your creative process, this tool removes friction and keeps you in flow.