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Client rebrands
Same template, new client, new palette. Save the brand as a palette, hit Retheme, and review the whole project recolored in minutes.
New · Project-Wide Color Control
ColorMaster
Scan your project and every color becomes a swatch: solids, shapes, text, gradients, layer styles, all of it. Change any of them from one panel, merge duplicates so they move together, and retheme an entire project in one click.
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See ColorMaster in Action
From a 400-color project to one organized panel, merged groups, and a one-click retheme.
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How to get ColorMaster
Three steps and you are up and running, with ColorMaster and every other Filmit tool, right inside your editor today.
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Create your account
Sign up free at filmit.io. No card needed to look around.
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Install Filmit Studio
Download the free desktop app for Mac or Windows. It manages every tool for you.
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Start your free trial
Start your 7-day trial and install ColorMaster plus every other tool, straight into your editor.
The Problem
Color management in After Effects is chaos.
Colors hide everywhere: fill effects, shape strokes, text properties, gradients, layer styles, spread across dozens of comps. Changing one brand color means finding every copy of it by hand.
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The great color hunt
"Make the blue a bit warmer" means twirling open every layer in every comp, checking fills, strokes, effects, and styles, and hoping you found them all before the review call.
✓ One scan finds every color in the whole project
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Duplicates that drift
The same brand color pasted into forty places slowly stops matching: one got eyedropped slightly off, another was tweaked at 2am. Now nothing lines up.
✓ Merge duplicates into one control, change once, update all
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Rebrands from hell
New client, same template, different palette. Recoloring a finished project by hand takes a day and always misses something in a precomp somewhere.
✓ Retheme maps every color to a saved palette in one click
Features
Every color in your project. One panel.
ColorMaster finds them, organizes them, links them, and keeps everything in sync, in the panel, in your comps, and in one master controls comp in your project.
Scans everything
Solids, shape fills and strokes, text fills and strokes, gradients, layer styles, effect colors, image tints, lights, and comp backgrounds, across every comp and precomp. Filter by type, search by hex or layer name.
Edit one, or edit all
Click a swatch and change just that color, with a full picker and live apply as you drag. Jump to any layer in the timeline straight from the panel.
Merge & unmerge
Ctrl+click or Shift+click swatches and merge them into one linked group: change one, all of them follow. Right-click to unmerge and they're individual again.
Master controls comp
Linked colors live in a "ColorMaster Controls" comp in your project panel, complete with a live swatch grid. Open it and retheme the whole project from one place.
Handoff-proof
Everything runs on standard After Effects color controls and expressions. Send the project to someone without Filmit Studio and every link still works. They can even recolor it from the controls comp.
Brand schemes & modes
Save multiple brand profiles per project and switch instantly. Every scheme carries Normal, Dark, Light, and B&W variants with per-color overrides.
Palettes & retheme
Generate harmony palettes, build custom ones, or save your project's own colors as a palette. Retheme maps every color to its nearest palette color, saved as a scheme so you can always switch back. Palettes import and export as files.
Color history
Every color remembers what it used to be. See its past colors right in the editor and click any of them to restore it. History survives re-scans and restarts.
Two-way sync
Change a color control directly in After Effects and the panel picks it up within seconds: swatches, history, and schemes all stay current. No rescan, no refresh button.
The Promise
Non-destructive, all the way down.
ColorMaster lives on top of your project, never inside your work.
Your project stays yours.
Scanning changes nothing. Linking keeps every color exactly as it was. Text layers keep their per-character styling. Every action is one clean undo step.
Change your mind? Unlink All freezes every color at its current value and steps out of the way. Clear CM removes every trace, controls, links, and the master comp, and your original setup is back.
And because the links are plain After Effects expressions, renders, proxies, and team handoffs behave exactly like a project that never met a plugin.
Use cases
Built for every "change the color" moment.
If a project has more than a handful of colors, ColorMaster pays for itself the first afternoon.
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Templates that sell
Ship templates with one obvious controls comp where buyers change every color, without opening a single layer. No plugin needed on their end.
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Dark & light variants
Deliver the same video in dark mode, light mode, and B&W from one project, with per-color overrides saved per scheme.
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Series consistency
Keep every episode, cutdown, and localization on brand. Export the palette once, import it everywhere, and merge strays into the official colors.
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Exploring looks
Generate harmony palettes from any color and retheme to audition a look. Every experiment is a scheme, so flipping back to the original is one click.
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Team projects
Colors named, tagged, and centralized means the next editor finds "Header BG" in one place instead of archaeology through precomps.
Setup
From color chaos to one panel in four steps.
No prep, no naming conventions, no rebuilding your project.
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Scan
One click finds every color in every comp. Read-only, nothing changes.
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Edit & merge
Recolor individual swatches, or merge duplicates so they change together.
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Organize
Tag colors, save palettes and brand schemes, build Dark and Light variants.
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Retheme & hand off
Recolor whole projects in one click, then send them anywhere. The links work without the plugin.
FAQ
Common questions
Everything you need to know about ColorMaster.
No. Scanning is completely read-only: it finds your colors and builds swatches, and nothing in your project changes. Things only change when you edit, link, or merge, and every action is one clean undo step.
Fifteen types: solids, shape fills, shape strokes, gradient fills and strokes, text fills and strokes, text fill effects, gradient effects, image tints, precomp effects, layer styles, effect colors, comp backgrounds, and light colors, across every comp and precomp in the project.
Everything keeps working. ColorMaster's links are standard After Effects color controls and expressions, so the project renders and edits normally anywhere. Your recipient can even retheme it by opening the ColorMaster Controls comp and changing the controls there.
Yes. Text fills and strokes are controlled through text animators, the same mechanism you'd use by hand, so per-character styling, fonts, and formatting are never touched.
Yes, two ways. Unlink All removes every link and freezes colors at their current values. Clear CM goes further and removes every trace, links, controls, and the master comp, returning the project to its original setup.
After Effects, on Mac and Windows, as a native panel, in every After Effects language.
Yes. ColorMaster is included with your Filmit Studio subscription at $20/month, along with every other Filmit tool, overlay, and course. Try it with a 7-day free trial.