Here are the central features immediately accessible through the main panel of Reach Beta.

Reach was created around a powerful search bar that allows you to launch and bookmark AE commands, apply effects and presets, find your scripts, built-in features, and expressions.

All of these items can be bookmarked at your convenience.

You can also use the Expression editor, purge your disk cache directly with a click, operate windowlessly, and create a snapshot on the fly of the current view in your composition. The settings will allow you to customise the appearance and size of your tool.

Under the search bar, you will find a convenient Anchor Point mover displayed in a row.

Below, the Speed graph is a helpful way to apply easing to your selected keyframes, and from that, you can find the 10 most common presets that you can fine-tune. The top arrow retrieves the values from the selected keyframes, and the bottom arrow applies the retrieved or current IN and OUT values.

Then you have the 27 most common features proposed by Reach as icons, from the top left to the bottom right:

• • Swap Fill/Stroke: Swap/toggle fill and stroke colors of selected shapes
• • Loops Toolkit: 3 shortcuts to cover all loop types, using Alt and Shift keys
• • Dupl'Keys: Duplicate selected keyframes at the playhead
• • Mir'Keys: Reverse/mirror selected keyframes around the playhead
• • Crop n'Precomp: Crop and precompose selected layers on the fly
• • Un'Precomp: Extract layers back from a precomp to the current comp
• • Caps Kit: Toggle stroke round/butt/bevel cap and join
• • Solid: Add a trimmed white/black/custom color solid under selection
• • Trimmed Adjust Layer: Add a trimmed adjustment layer above the selection
• • The Shifter: Launch the Stagger tool to offset layers even by labels
• • Merge/Split: Split or Merge selected Shape layers,
• • Bake/Unbake: Convert expressions to keyframes and toggle back if needed
• • Faux Null: Create a null helpe: hold Shift to parent selected layers
• • The Centerer: Center selected layers inside your composition
• • The Resizer: Fit selection to width/height/both of the composition
• • Rasterizer: Toggle continuously rasterized throughout your entire project
• • Guides Around: Add guides around your objects and their anchor point
• • Grids Kit: Distribute selected layers onto configurable grids
• • Expression Remover: Does exactly what it is supposed to do
• • Resette: Reset your layers
• • Intelli Renamer: Smart rename selected layers/items based on their content and color
• • Cut Text: Slice text by words/characters/lines with a single click
• • Reach effector: A Setup which affects any property
• • New Order: Reorganise and clean project structure automatically
• • Paste Image from Clipboard: Paste an image from the clipboard into AE
  
  

The Expression Editor.

One of the powerful features proposed by Reach is its Expression Editor, where you can display and store all your expressions. Select an expression from the list in the dedicated panel to edit it. In the textarea, you benefit from a modern JavaScript formatter.

You can name or rename your expression, select a default property to apply it instantly whenever you want, or choose “any” to use it on the selected property at your convenience. Some expressions are already provided with the tool. You can enjoy, edit, or delete them.

The Align Tool: You can display this feature not only to replace the AE Align panel but also when you want to align objects to the first selected object, which is a slightly different and valuable option. You don't need to do any additional steps to align your layers. By the way, it can also be handy when aligning some 3D layers, bypassing the AE classic restriction. However, it is not designed for aligning 3D objects, so use it with caution.

The Paragraph tool is optional; it is provided to prevent the permanent display of AE’s Paragraph panel. Since every displayed tool appears by default, you can choose to include or exclude it from your UI through the settings.

Then, the CTI mover feature allows you to decide how many frames to jump forward or backwards, which is helpful when working with exotic numbers, such as 7.

To conclude, the UI features a slider for zooming in and out. The magnifier will display your comp at 100% with a click.

Here are around 30 other features that are provided with Reach:

• • Text Box: Create a background box behind selected text.
• • Disable Errors: Find and disable broken expressions in the comp.
• • Copy Match Names: Copy the property MatchNames to the clipboard for expressions.
• • Reveal: Reveal selected project item or layer source in OS.
• • Bulk Namer: Batch rename layers/objects/items with patterns.
• • Isolated: Solo selected layers and shy others (toggle).
• • Text Snooper: Search and replace text across your project.
• • Comps to Projects: Create an .aep from a comp.
• • Reach Bouncer: Add a bounce rig to your properties.
• • Reach Sound System: Create an audio layer rig for sound-driven effects.
• • Golden Ratio: Create a golden ratio guide overlay.
• • Ungroup Masks: Separate masks into individual layers.
• • Select Layers by type: Select all layers in the comp by their kind.
• • Nota Bene: Import a text file into a text layer paragraph.
• • Name Matcher: Rename the layer and its source item name.
• • Set Interval: Drop markers at a fixed interval across the timeline.
• • BPM: Compute BPM/measure timing helpers on timeline.
• • Reach Camera Rig: Create a Quick and Controllable 3D Camera Rig.
• • Markers From Keys: Convert selected property keyframes to layer markers.
• • FX to Layer Names: Rename layers based on applied effects.
• • Expressions Markers: Add markers to layers that have expressions.
• • Toggle Expressions: Toggle all expressions in the comp on/off.
• • Footage Assembler: Assemble used footage end-to-end for review/export.
• • Audio Reactors: Create sound-driven animations from audio amplitude.
• • Layer Markers to Comp: Copy layer markers to the composition timeline.
• • Randomize Layers Position: Spread selected layers randomly within bounds.
• • BPM Beat Markers: Generate beat markers from BPM for timing.
• • Replicator: Duplicate compositions in bulk.
• • Effects Cleaner: Clean comp by removing disabled/useless effects.
• • No Gap: Stick two layers together by removing gaps.
• • Remove Useless Keyframes: Delete redundant/useless keyframes in selection.
• • Centre Shapes Around Anchor: Centre shape paths around a centred anchor point.
• • Tiler: Generate a tiled grid from the composition.
• • Swap Text: Swap text content between selected text layers.

…And I let you discover the others.

Cheers.