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Video Walls
Create multi-screen video wall effects for events, concerts, and broadcast graphics. Pack in as many cells as you need, from flat grids to Advanced Mode 3D walls.
After Effects Extension
GridMaker
Build advanced grids in After Effects, in one click.
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GridMaker comes with Filmit Studio, along with our whole suite of plugins, effects, transitions, overlays, and courses, plus everything new we ship. It's all included!
Included with Filmit Studio
GridMaker v2.0
Rows 3
Cols 3
Gap 4px
Generate Grid
Watch the Demo
See GridMaker 2.0 in Action
A full tour of GridMaker 2.0 Advanced Mode: flat, 3D spatial, and path grids in After Effects.
Get Started
How to get GridMaker
Three steps and you are up and running, with GridMaker and every other Filmit tool, right inside your editor today.
1
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 GridMaker plus every other tool, straight into your editor.
★ New in 2.0
Meet Advanced Mode
A full visual grid designer, built right in. Lay out flat grids, arrange your boxes in 3D, or run them along a path, then animate it all and build straight to your comp. What you see is exactly what renders.
Flat
Design any layout
Drag any box edge and the neighbours reflow so your grid always fits the comp. Spanning boxes, spacers, shapes, and rounded corners.
3D Spatial
Arrange in 3D
Place your boxes on a sphere, ring, cylinder, or helix, with a real camera you can orbit and zoom. The preview matches the render.
Path
Follow a path
Lay your boxes along a circle, star, wave, spiral, or any shape you draw. Even distribution, automatic spacing.
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Built-in animation
Fade, scale, pop, slide, and 3D flips and zooms, with staggered in and out timing.
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Easing curve editor
Shape the motion with a draggable curve and presets like overshoot, bounce, and elastic.
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One grid controller
Move, scale, and rotate the whole grid, with live gap, padding, and corner sliders.
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Playhead timeline
Scrub the animation and set exactly when each box enters and exits.
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Presets & Composer
Save your own layouts, or start from a ready-made one and roll the randomizer.
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Create or apply
Drop in placeholder layers for your footage, or arrange clips you have already selected.
Watch & Learn
Advanced Mode, mode by mode
Three short tutorials on the three Advanced Mode layouts. Build animated flat grids, run your footage along a path, or wrap it into a 3D sphere, all inside After Effects.
Flat
Animated flat grids
Lay out any grid, merge and round the cells, then animate it with staggered timing and apply it straight to your footage. The classic split screen and video wall, fully designed.
Read the full tutorial →
Path
Footage along a path
Send your tiles around a circle, star, spiral, or a path you draw yourself, with even spacing and travel-along animation. Import any shape straight from After Effects.
Read the full tutorial →
3D Spatial
A 3D sphere of footage
Wrap your clips onto a sphere, ring, or helix with a real camera, no nulls to rig by hand, and let GridMaker spin it and loop it to your comp length on its own.
Read the full tutorial →The Problem
Building grids in After Effects is tedious.
Manual layer positioning, math for spacing, resizing each clip individually. Sound familiar?
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Manual Layer Positioning
Creating a simple 3x3 grid means positioning 9 layers by hand. You're eyeballing positions, nudging pixels, and wasting time on basic layout.
✓ GridMaker: One click generates any grid layout
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Math for Equal Spacing
Calculating even gaps between cells requires dividing your comp width and height, accounting for borders, and hoping nothing is off by a pixel.
✓ GridMaker: Automatic gap and padding calculation
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Resizing Each Layer
Every layer needs to be scaled to fit its cell. Change your mind about the grid size? Start all over again from scratch.
✓ GridMaker: Auto-scales all layers to fit
Features
One panel. Any grid you want.
Split screens, video walls, collages. Pick a grid size and go.
Custom Grid Sizes
Build anything from a simple split screen to a 20x20 mosaic in one click, then go further in Advanced Mode with freeform, 3D, and path layouts.
Automatic Layer Arrangement
GridMaker creates and positions all layers automatically. Each cell is properly sized and placed with pixel-perfect precision.
Gap Control
Adjust the gap between cells from 0 to 50 pixels. Add padding around the entire grid for border effects.
Border Styling
Add colored borders between cells. Choose any color, thickness, and opacity for a polished video wall look.
Animation Presets
Cells can animate in with pop, slide, or fade effects. Stagger timing for a cascading reveal that looks professional.
Responsive Scaling
Change your comp size and the grid adapts. All proportions, gaps, and cell sizes recalculate automatically.
Deep Dive
See how it works.
Watch GridMaker build layouts that would take you 30 minutes by hand.
Grid Generator
Any size. One click.
Set your rows and columns, hit Generate, and watch cells fill in. GridMaker creates all the layers, positions them, and sizes them to fit your composition.
- Grid sizes up to 20x20
- Asymmetric grids (e.g. 3x5)
- Pixel-perfect cell placement
- Auto-creates named layers
Grid Preview
Gap Control
Dial in the perfect spacing.
Adjust the gap between cells with a slider. See the changes in real-time before generating. Zero gap for seamless walls, wide gaps for framed looks.
- 0 to 50px gap control
- Live preview as you adjust
- Independent horizontal/vertical gaps
- Colored gap backgrounds
Gap Control
Animations
Cells that animate in beautifully.
Choose from pop, slide, or fade animations with staggered timing. Each cell reveals on its own, creating a polished cascading effect.
- Pop, slide, and fade presets
- Staggered reveal timing
- Customizable duration and easing
- Loop and ping-pong modes
Animation
Use Cases
Built for real production needs.
Split screens, photo walls, reaction grids. One click.
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Photo Collages
Build photo grids for slideshows, yearbooks, and social media. Drop images into each cell and let GridMaker handle the layout.
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Split Screens
Classic 2-up, 3-up, and 4-up split screen layouts in seconds. Perfect for comparison videos and reaction content.
Setup
From install to grid in under 60 seconds.
Four steps to your first perfect grid layout.
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Download Filmit Studio
Install the Filmit Studio desktop app. It manages all your plugins automatically.
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Open After Effects
Launch AE. GridMaker appears under Window → Extensions. Open the panel.
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Set Your Grid
Choose rows, columns, and gap size. Preview updates in real-time as you adjust.
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Generate
Click Generate. All layers are created, sized, and positioned automatically. Done.
FAQ
Common Questions
Everything you need to know about GridMaker.
GridMaker's quick grids go up to 20x20 in one click, and Advanced Mode goes well beyond that. There you just keep adding boxes and arrange as many as you need, in flat, 3D spatial, or path layouts. Rows and columns are independent too, so asymmetric layouts like 3x5 or 2x8 are easy.
Yes. Classic grids include pop, slide, and fade presets with staggered timing. Advanced Mode goes further with in and out styles like fade, scale, pop, slide, and 3D flips and zooms, a draggable easing curve editor, and a playhead timeline to set exactly when each box enters and exits.
GridMaker creates one layer per cell, properly named (e.g., "Cell_R1_C1"). Layers are organized in a pre-comp and sized to fit their cell automatically. You can replace any cell's content by swapping the layer source.
Absolutely. GridMaker adapts to any comp size and aspect ratio. Whether you're working in 16:9, 1:1, 9:16, or a custom resolution, the grid fills the comp proportionally with even cell sizes.
Yes. GridMaker is included with your Filmit Studio subscription at $20/month. You get GridMaker plus every other Filmit tool, overlay pack, and course. No extra cost.