I built Ziframe because I was tired of bouncing between After Effects and AI websites.

Ziframe is an AE extension that lets you generate AI images and short video assets directly inside After Effects. You prompt from the panel, and the results come back as layers in your comp, so you can iterate the same way you already do with normal AE work.

This solves many issues:

- Constant context switching between Ae and the browser

- The very tedious flow of Generating an image with ai → downloading file → moving file to project folder → importing file to Ae → moving it to the timeline → making adjustments with After → Exporting the image → Opening a video generation tool to make it move → etc.

- Juggling between so many tools and subscriptiongs

Under the hood it’s multi-model. I’m using fal.ai as the backend, which lets me route requests to different models while having a dynamically generated UI in the AE extension. The goal was to only have json files for each model and keep the rest dynamic.

It’s credit-based (no BYO API keys) so this will allow me to eventually build more automation and routing features. Similar to what photoai.com does. This is something I’m already using in real client work daily.

Happy to answer questions about After Effects integration, fal.ai, or the tradeoffs of putting AI inside legacy creative software.