Cyclops is the best way to create behind the scenes renders of your After Effects animations.

Easily show off your null layers, motion paths, and layer bounding boxes on social media or project case studies.

Cyclops offers customizable render settings to support every workflow and supports the latest versions of After Effects available on Creative Cloud on both macOS and Windows.

<aside> ℹ️ Please download the latest version of Cyclops and read through all documentation before contacting me with issues. Most Cyclops issues can be resolved by reinstalling Cyclops, restarting After Effects, or restarting your computer

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Getting Started

Installation

Tutorial Video

Frequent Questions

Workflow

Render Instructions

Composition Complexity

Active Display

Sending Log Files

Error Messages & Issues

Unable to find your composition”

No MP4 on Render

⚠️ “Active Display” is empty

⚠️ Render button is unresponsive

Cyclops on macOS

macOS Catalina and Newer

macOS Cannot Verify the Developer

Miscellaneous

Open Source

Change Log

Thank You