Boxer – The easiest way to create text boxes in After Effects.

Also available on aescripts + aeplugins

• Preview your text and box to try out a few styled before creating.
• Adjust the padding, corner radius, stroke width, fill color and stroke color.
• Click Boxer
  A shape layer is automatically created to your specifications and parented to the text layer.
• The box will automatically re-size to fit the size of any text changes.
• A pseudo-effect on the shape layer allows you to continue to modify all the styles even after the layers have been built.

Plus, since the only things generated are simple shape layers, your project will remain shareable with clients or colleagues!
No plugins, no proprietary FX and no awkward conversations.

Boxer-Lite

Boxer-Lite is the stripped back, UI-less, script version of Boxer.



Instead of previewing the box and dialling in the design before creating the layers.

Boxer-Lite builds the shape layer and adds some default styling using the Pseudo-Effect.


This styling can then be modified to get the desired look.

This is the perfect solution if you need to save space within your After Effects UI.

COMPATIBLE WITH After Effects 2023+