Color Master is an After Effects plugin that scans your entire project, finds every color used across shapes, text, fills, and strokes, and turns them into centralized, expression-linked controls. Inherited a chaotic project with hundreds of colors and no global control? Color Master builds that control system for you in seconds — change every green to red in one click.
The problem it solves
You can build your own color controls with null objects and expressions — but only if the project was set up that way from the start. When it wasn't, manually wrangling fills, strokes, and text colors across nested comps drains hours. Color Master creates the global system after the fact, no matter how messy the project.
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What Color Master does
- Build Color Master — scans the project, detects every color, and creates a master comp of expression-linked swatches applied to all matching elements.
- Merge colors — collapses duplicate shades (six near-identical greens) into a single swatch for a clean, consistent panel.
- Update colors / expressions — rescans after you add new layers, assigning them to existing swatches or creating new ones.
- Position — reorganizes the control comp so the panel stays tidy as it grows.
Why it's a workflow game-changer
Instead of digging through nested comps and writing expressions one swatch at a time, Color Master automates the whole color system in seconds. Rebrand a project, enforce a palette, or test a new look across hundreds of elements from one panel — then tweak any swatch and watch the comp update. It's included with the Filmit Studio subscription.
