AEP File Viewer

Adobe After Effects is the standard tool for motion graphics, title animations, YouTube intros, logo reveals and wedding or event templates, and an .aep project is what a client, a freelancer or a template site hands over. The file is a binary project that only After Effects opens, After Effects needs a paid Creative Cloud plan, and even then a project saved by a newer version will not open in an older one. So people end up stuck with a file they cannot look inside: a client who received the source files, an editor checking a freelancer's delivery, a student with an old project from college, or a buyer who wants to know what a template needs before installing anything.

This page reads the project file itself, in your browser. It tells you first which After Effects release saved it, such as After Effects 2025 on Windows, so you know which version you need, and whether the project uses 8, 16 or 32 bit colour and the JavaScript or legacy expression engine. Then it lists every composition with its size, frame rate and duration, and picks out the main one, the top composition that the others feed into.

The timeline draws each layer as a bar between its in and out points, with its type (text, shape, solid, footage, null, camera, light, adjustment or a nested composition), its parent, track matte, 3D and visibility switches, the effects on it and any expressions. The Fonts section collects every font used by text layers with the layers that use it, which is the usual reason a project shows missing fonts. The Plug-ins section separates built-in Adobe effects from third-party ones such as Trapcode Particular, Sapphire, Element 3D, Optical Flares, Saber or Deep Glow, with the vendor and how many times each is used. Footage lists every image, video, audio file and image sequence with its original path, and marks files After Effects already reported as missing.

You can also read every piece of text in the project, copy all expressions, and see Essential Graphics controls for .mogrt style templates. The text report and the CSV are handy for handover notes, for a font licence check, or for asking a client to send the missing files. We tested public projects saved by After Effects CC 2018 to 2026, and a 20 MB test project with 168 compositions opened in well under a second on a laptop.

The project never leaves your device. It is read by code running in this tab, in a background worker, and the report is made on your computer. There is no upload, no account and no AI model, so unreleased client work stays private. Closing the tab clears everything.

This is a viewer, not a renderer. An .aep file holds the structure of the project but not the footage, fonts or plug-ins, so frames cannot be played here. After Effects is a trademark of Adobe. TaskNinja is not connected to Adobe.