Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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What's up guys, Max here. In this quick tutorial I'll show you how to build an animated camera grid in After Effects, where a camera flies cell to cell across a grid of your footage, using GridMaker's Advanced Mode.

Grab GridMaker with a free trial at the link below. It installs through Filmit Studio along with the whole plugin suite, and I am a big part of the team that makes them.

What you'll learn:
- Installing GridMaker through Filmit Studio
- Opening Advanced Mode and the Camera tab
- Building the shot path: full grid to a cell and back
- Setting columns, rows, gap, and camera easing
- Create New Comp, then Apply to Selection to drop in your images
- Looping the camera move

Get GridMaker (free trial): filmit.io/gridmaker
Download Filmit Studio (free): filmit.io/studio
Join the Discord (tag me, @max): filmit.io/discord

Timecodes:
0:00 What we are building
0:22 Get GridMaker through Filmit Studio
1:04 Advanced Mode overview
1:55 The Camera tab and composer
2:22 Build the camera shot path
2:39 Create the comp
2:57 Add your images with Sourcer
3:53 Make it loop
4:29 Wrap up

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