Master Your Project Colors in After Effects with Filmit Color Master
If you've ever inherited a chaotic After Effects project with dozens—or hundreds—of different colors and no centralized control, you already know the pain. Manually wrangling shape fills, text colors, and stroke effects across multiple comps can drain hours of your time.
Sure, you can make your own color controls in AE using null objects and expressions. But what if that setup doesn’t exist? What if you're working with a complex scene that wasn’t built with global color logic in mind?
That’s where Color Master by Filmit.io steps in.
🎨 What Is Color Master?
Color Master is a smart After Effects plugin that scans your entire project, identifies every color used across shapes, text, fills, and strokes—and turns them into centralized expression-linked controls.
No matter how messy the project is, Color Master creates a system where every color is now controlled in one place. Want to change all green elements to red? One click. Want to unify colors and reduce redundancy? Done. Need to update newly added elements to match the system? Easy.
⚙️ What It Does (And Why It’s a Game Changer)
You could spend your day manually assigning color controls, digging through nested comps, and writing expressions one by one. Or, you can let Color Master automate it in seconds.
Here’s what it brings to your workflow:
✅ Build Color Master
The core feature. It heart-scans your entire project, detects used colors, and creates a master comp with expression-linked color controls. It applies those expressions to all matching elements—automatically.
✅ Merge Colors
If multiple elements use the same color (like 6 variations of the same green), this function merges duplicates into a single swatch. This keeps your control panel clean and your colors consistent.
✅ Update Colors / Update Expressions
Added new text, shapes, or footage since building the Color Master? These buttons refresh your color map, assigning them to existing swatches or creating new ones as needed.
✅ Position
Reorganizes and arranges your Color Master comp visually, so even complex setups are easy to browse and use.
🧠 Built for Real Projects
Color Master was born from real-world frustration: working with massive After Effects projects, animation scenes, and motion templates that lacked any centralized design logic.
"I didn’t want to spend 3 hours linking expressions one by one, especially on projects I didn’t build. Color Master gives me global color control—even on chaotic timelines I didn’t touch before.”
— Maxwell Ridgeway, Creator of Color Master & Founder of Filmit.io
🔄 Non-Destructive, Expression-Based Control
Everything Color Master creates is done using expressions, meaning:
Your comps and layers stay fully editable
You can disable or bypass the system at any time
You get live control over colors without reapplying styles
It’s not just about efficiency—it’s about creative freedom.
✨ Who Should Use Color Master?
Motion designers dealing with multi-scene animations
Editors using templated motion graphics across brands
Animators who want global control over color themes
Teams collaborating on multi-deliverable projects
Template creators who want built-in color customization
Basically, anyone who’s tired of being held hostage by hardcoded color layers.
🧪 Constantly Improving
Color Master is still growing. Version 1 already supports text fills, shape layers, stroke colors, and more—but we’re pushing toward deeper support in future updates.
All license holders get lifetime updates, so your toolkit evolves as we do.
🛠 How to Use It (In 4 Steps)
Open your project in After Effects
Launch the panel:
Window > Filmit Color MasterClick Build Color Master — your control system is created
Use Merge, Update, and Position tools as your project evolves
Now, you have full color control—on any project, even if it wasn’t yours to begin with.
💡 Use Case: Text & Shape Global Control
Change the fill color of every text layer in your project? Done.
Control all shape stroke colors at once? Also done.
Adjust and sync new additions without rebuilding the control system? Easy.
🧰 Try Color Master Today
Ready to finally take control of your color workflows in After Effects?
👉 Download Color Master on Filmit.io
Includes install instructions, live Discord support, and lifetime updates.
And if you love it, check out tools like Filmit Reducer and GridMaker—built for creators like you.
🎬 Want to See It in Action?
Watch the full demo and walkthrough on our YouTube Channel for a deep dive on how to use Color Master in real projects.