After Effects, but multiplayer

One project.
Ten people.
Zero lonely edits.

Start a private room for your crew or publish a public lobby for editors to discover. Everyone shares the live AE session, while one protected control seat keeps the project safe.

10 people per room 1 active controller Public + private rooms
AE JamROOM 7K4M2Q
Music Video Final10 online
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COLLAB
Nova
Mika
Jay
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MikaThat transition is clean 🔥

AE JamMika: That transition is clean 🔥

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Public lobby browserPrivate invite roomsSix full-app themes10-person roomsOne protected controllerDirect file transferGIF reactionsAE markers
New in AE Jam v0.9.0

Your crew can be invited.
Or discovered.

Keep sessions locked behind a six-character code, or publish a public lobby with a title, description and tags so other editors can find the room live.

Public lobbiesDirectory live · 12 rooms

PUBLIC
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Motion Lab

Ari · Reviewing title animations and sharing graph tips.

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AR+1
3 / 10
PUBLIC
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Late Render Club

Mika · Chill compositing room while the final export cooks.

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MVT+4
7 / 10
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Lobby presence refreshes automatically while public rooms are open.

ROOM VISIBILITY

Choose how people join.

Discoverable now

Your lobby appears in the live browser with its name, host, tags and participant count. The AE project itself is never uploaded to the directory.

APP THEME

Make the room yours.

Previewing Midnight. Your choice stays local to your PC.

Built for real edit sessions

Everything your editing call
keeps switching apps for.

AE Jam puts the conversation, files, reactions and editing handoff beside the project—so your crew stays in the same room and the host stays in control.

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A real 10-person editing room.

One host streams the actual After Effects project. Up to nine guests can watch live, talk, react, point things out and stay synced to the same cut.

One controller. No chaos.

The host grants one protected control token at a time. Everyone else can keep watching, chatting and requesting the next handoff.

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MMikaQUEUED

Files land where you need them.

Send footage, presets, audio and overlays directly. Received files save into AE Jam Shared and can be imported into After Effects.

MP4

impact_overlay.mp484.2 MB

100%
Ready to import
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Say it without stopping the preview.

Shared cursors, pings, drawings and real composition markers let people give visual feedback exactly where it matters.

Reactions with actual personality.

Drop GIFs, favorite the best ones and fire off emoji bursts over the live composition.

Fire reaction GIF Clean reaction GIF Peak reaction GIF

A synced soundboard.

Trigger built-in hits and custom sounds for everyone in the room—because every clean transition deserves a bass hit.

The shared room

Not screen sharing.
A multiplayer workspace.

AE Jam surrounds the live After Effects stream with tools made for collaboration. People can stay useful even when they are not controlling the mouse.

  • Watch the exact host projectNo duplicate project state to fight with.

  • Request and hand off controlOnly one editor can operate AE at a time.

  • Keep feedback attached to the editMarkers, notes, pings and drawings stay in context.

  • Stay notified outside the windowMessages and activity can pop up in Windows.

Room active7K4M2Q
HOST SCREEN
Ae
ROOM HEALTHExcellent
CONTROLLER
NNova22 ms
CONTROL QUEUE
1Mika
2Jay
Three steps. Your kind of room.

From installer to editing
in a few clicks.

No separate developer setup. Install AE Jam on each Windows PC, choose private or public, then open the session to exactly the people you want.

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AE Jam SetupInstalling collaboration tools…

Install AE Jam

Run the Windows installer. It adds the desktop app, AE launcher panel, shortcuts and uninstaller automatically.

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YOUR ROOM CODE7K4M2Q

Choose private or public

Send a six-character code to friends, or publish a titled lobby that appears live in the public browser.

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Jam together

Watch, annotate, send files, react and hand off the single controller whenever another editor needs to jump in.

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“Can you move that cut two frames?”

Ping it. Mark it. Hand over control.
02

“Do you have that overlay?”

Drop the file directly into the room.
03

“Wait, play that again.”

Everyone is already watching the same preview.
04

“That was actually clean.”

Fire the GIF. Hit the soundboard.
Made for After Effects crews

The host project stays the source of truth.

AE Jam does not pretend ten independent copies of a complicated After Effects project can merge perfectly. Instead, the host keeps the real project while the room gives everybody a live, useful way to participate.

Public lobby browserPrivate invite roomsSix themesHost-approved controlAdaptive streamingAutomatic reconnectShared notes
Questions, answered

Before the room opens.

AE Jam is a Windows collaboration tool built around a live host project.

How many people can join one AE Jam room?+

Up to 10 people total: one host and up to nine guests. Everyone can watch, chat, react and use collaboration tools, while one person holds editing control.

What is the difference between a public and private room?+

Private rooms stay off the lobby browser and require the room code. Public rooms publish a lightweight listing so editors can discover them, preview the title and tags, then join from the Lobbies tab.

What information is visible in a public lobby?+

The directory shows the lobby title, host display name, description, tags, participant count, room code and selected theme accent. Your After Effects project, screen, chat and transferred files are not placed in the public listing.

Can multiple people control After Effects at once?+

No. AE Jam intentionally uses one exclusive control token. The host can approve, revoke or hand off control, and additional requests wait in a queue.

Does every guest need the same plugins and footage?+

Guests are watching and controlling the host project, so they do not need an identical local project setup just to participate. The host machine still needs the project’s actual plugins, fonts and media.

Can we send files inside the room?+

Yes. AE Jam supports direct file transfer. Received files save into an AE Jam Shared folder and can be opened, revealed or imported into After Effects.

Will it work on every network?+

Most normal home connections should work, but some restrictive school, workplace, VPN or firewall setups can block peer-to-peer traffic. Host upload speed also affects stream quality in larger rooms.

Why might Windows show a warning?+

This release is an unsigned test build. Windows SmartScreen may display a warning because the installer does not yet have a paid code-signing certificate.

Room ready

Stop sending screen recordings.
Start editing together.

Open a private room for the crew—or publish a public lobby and meet editors who are ready to jump into the session.

Your download is starting.Run AE-Jam-Setup-v0.9.0.exe on every PC.