Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Every button in Citron, in one video.
Citron is a graph editor for After Effects, by Animator NOW. I spent 25 years animating in Maya, Blender and Unreal, and I built Citron to bring that graph editor feel into After Effects. This walkthrough covers the whole panel: navigation, tangents, interpolation, view modes, the speed graph, presets, and where to send bugs and feature ideas.
Good to know: everything Citron does lands in After Effects' own undo stack. One drag is one Cmd+Z (Ctrl+Z on Windows). There is no separate history inside the panel.
aescripts.com/citron
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:39 Why I created Citron
3:10 Demo setup
3:54 Navigation: zoom & pan
6:04 F key: zoom to selection
7:17 Scrubbing the time bar
8:00 Channel sidebar: picking properties
9:33 Tangents & breaking them
10:46 Puppet pins & locking objects
11:33 Sync with After Effects
12:27 Tangent types: Bezier, linear, stepped, auto
13:36 Insert key tool
14:25 Snap to whole frames
15:19 Lattice & flip curves
15:54 Separate dimensions
16:32 Editing key values & frame numbers
17:13 Speed graph
18:14 View modes: absolute, normalized, stacked
19:43 Fit All & fit selected
20:26 Ease presets
22:19 Settings, bug reports & feature requests
24:26 Outro
Every button in Citron, in one video.
Citron is a graph editor for After Effects, by Animator NOW. I spent 25 years animating in Maya, Blender and Unreal, and I built Citron to bring that graph editor feel into After Effects. This walkthrough covers the whole panel: navigation, tangents, interpolation, view modes, the speed graph, presets, and where to send bugs and feature ideas.
Good to know: everything Citron does lands in After Effects' own undo stack. One drag is one Cmd+Z (Ctrl+Z on Windows). There is no separate history inside the panel.
aescripts.com/citron
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:39 Why I created Citron
3:10 Demo setup
3:54 Navigation: zoom & pan
6:04 F key: zoom to selection
7:17 Scrubbing the time bar
8:00 Channel sidebar: picking properties
9:33 Tangents & breaking them
10:46 Puppet pins & locking objects
11:33 Sync with After Effects
12:27 Tangent types: Bezier, linear, stepped, auto
13:36 Insert key tool
14:25 Snap to whole frames
15:19 Lattice & flip curves
15:54 Separate dimensions
16:32 Editing key values & frame numbers
17:13 Speed graph
18:14 View modes: absolute, normalized, stacked
19:43 Fit All & fit selected
20:26 Ease presets
22:19 Settings, bug reports & feature requests
24:26 Outro
