Screen Mapper — After Effects

Multi-screen displays and bento grids, built in seconds.

Screen Mapper is an After Effects extension for laying out multi-screen displays and bento grids visually. Design your template in the panel, hit export, and Screen Mapper builds the master comp, precomps, names and labels for you — positioned exactly where you put them.

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Key features

What's in the panel.

Design, save and export your own Screen Mapper canvases
Responsive toolbar for quickly modifying displays and building scenes
Grids, gutters, guides, rulers and snapping
Import reference images and scale displays to match
Checkerboard preset for previewing pixel maps
Keyboard shortcuts (US & UK layouts)
Quickly build bento design grids

Complete takeovers

Design displays that fill the room.

From a single hero screen to a wall of tiles — lay it out in Screen Mapper, then let it build your compositions.

Screen Mapper — multi-display takeover example

Build. Save. Share.

Design once, hand it off.

Save your templates for reuse, or export them as a file to share with your team. Working with someone else's layout? Import theirs and go.

The Screen Mapper interface has been designed to feel as if you’re working right within your Composition window — rulers, grids, panning, zooming, all keyboard-shortcutted.

Export

One click to a build-ready AE project.

When you're finished, export to After Effects and watch the master comp, precomps, names and labels drop into place — automatically.

Screen Mapper — exporting to After Effects

Working the canvas

Adding displays to the Screen Mapper canvas — **Add displays** — drop in new screens with a click and place them precisely.

Zooming and panning around the canvas — **Zoom & pan** — navigate huge layouts the way you would in the comp.

Grids, guides, gutters, snapping

Pixel-perfect by default.

Rulers and grids for measurement. Snapping for accuracy. Guides that show you exactly which display you're aligned to. Gutters to account for the bevels between real-world screens.

Guides and snapping in Screen Mapper — **Guides & snapping**

Gutters between displays — **Gutters** — bake the space between real screens into the layout.

Using a reference photo of the venue? Import images up to 10,000 px and scale the canvas to a true 1:1 ratio. Canvases go up to 30,000 px — After Effects’ own comp limit.

Bento

Bento grids in a beat.

Snap out a full bento layout from a single control — perfect for social edits and multi-panel loops.

Presets & shortcuts

Pixel-mapping presets, on tap.

Add a preset pixel-mapping shape layer per display for previewing individual grids across your project. Perfect for tech-checking before an event. Keyboard shortcuts cover duplication, movement and every core action.

Screen Mapper — pixel mapping composition preset

Toolbar

Every control, one row.

Main menu
Project menu
Delete project
Save · Undo · Redo
Show / hide images
Scale proportionally to images
Reset canvas view
Enable / disable snapping
Enable / disable guides
Enable / disable rulers
Enable / disable grid
Build grid of displays
Delete display
Rotate display
Multi-display adjuster
Change label colours

Compatibility

Screen Mapper works with After Effects CC 2017 and up, and supports multiple AE languages.

Measurement is in pixels. Save shortcut on Mac is Ctrl + S (extension quirk — Cmd+S doesn’t reliably work). Please check the trial before purchasing.

Trial

Trial limits

Trial lasts 7 days
Max canvas size: 1280×720
Export limited to 5 displays

Stop laying out screens by hand.

Design the layout once. Screen Mapper builds the project.

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