Export panel controls

A reference for every control in the Export tab and its sub-views. Use this page when you want to know what a specific button or option does, rather than walking through the full render flow.

How to access this

1. Open the LottieFiles plugin in After Effects (Window > Extensions > LottieFiles).

2. Click Export in the top tab bar.

The Export tab has four sub-views:

• Compositions list — the default landing, showing every composition in your AE project.

• Render queue — appears after you start a render; shows progress and finished results.

• Rendered animation detail — opens a completed render for preview and export actions.

• Render Settings — a modal opened from the settings action on a composition row or from the list header.

Compositions list

The default view of the Export tab.

Header

• Search bar — filters the composition list by name. Filtering is debounced (~800 ms) so you can type without each keystroke re-running the filter.

• Refresh button — re-fetches the composition list from After Effects. Useful if you've created, renamed, or deleted compositions since opening the plugin.

• Select all checkbox — toggles selection for every visible composition. Has three states: empty, all-selected, and indeterminate (some selected).

Composition row

Each composition in the project appears as a row.

• Selection checkbox — toggles this composition. Hold Shift while clicking another row to select the range between them.

• Composition name — display name from After Effects. Click the name to do nothing in the plugin (this isn't a navigation target); use the dedicated action buttons instead.

• Settings icon — opens Render Settings for this specific composition. See Render Settings below.

• Render icon — starts a single-composition render. The render queue opens and rendering begins immediately (or after the project save prompt).

Bottom bar

Only visible when one or more compositions are selected.

• Render — starts a batch render of every selected composition. Behaviorally identical to per-row Render but runs them in order. The plugin navigates to the render queue.

Render queue

The view you land on after starting a render. Reachable directly at /compositions/render once a render has been queued.

Per-render row

Each composition you queued appears as a render card.

• Status indicator — shows the current state: queued, rendering, complete, or error. Hover for the full message.

• Composition name — the comp that's rendering.

• Progress — percentage complete for in-flight renders.

• File size — shown for completed renders.

• Selection checkbox — for batch upload. Multi-select uses the same Shift-click range pattern as the compositions list.

Header

• Back button — returns to the compositions list.

• Search bar (when many renders) — filters the queue by composition name.

Upload area

Appears once at least one render has finished.

• Destination picker — choose the LottieFiles workspace, project, and folder for the upload.

• Save AEP checkbox — when ticked, the source .aep file is uploaded alongside the Lottie. Disabled when your workspace storage would be exceeded — hover the disabled checkbox for the upgrade tooltip.

• AEP file size — the size of the .aep that would be uploaded, shown before the upload runs.

• Upload button — starts the upload for all selected renders.

Rendered animation detail

Open a completed render to inspect the animation before downloading or uploading it.

• Player — previews the rendered animation with playback controls.

• Zoom controls — hover the preview canvas to reveal minus and plus buttons. Zoom ranges from 10% to 300% in 10% steps.

• Pan when zoomed — above 100%, the cursor changes to grab. Drag the preview or use a two-finger trackpad gesture to move the enlarged animation within the preview boundaries.

• Preview clicks — above 100%, preview clicks are reserved for panning and do not trigger playback or State Machine interactions. At 100% or below, the existing preview interactions remain available.

Render Settings

A modal accessed from a composition row for one composition, or from the settings action in the list header for all compositions or the current selection.

The modal groups settings into:

• Metadata — author, description, keywords, and theme color.

• Font export settings — bundle and inline fonts, writing direction, convert fonts to shapes, and settings for fonts used by the composition.

• Expressions — convert expressions to keyframes, extend conversion beyond the work area, and remove expression-only properties.

• Assets — embed image assets in JSON, keep original asset names, copy original assets, or skip unchanged image exports.

• Etc. — include hidden layers and guide layers.

Related

• Exporting compositions as Lottie — the end-to-end flow that uses these controls.

• Lottie compatibility — what each export option means for the resulting Lottie.

• Preparing comps for Lottie — what to do before you reach this panel.