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 three 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.

• Composition settings — a modal opened from the gear icon on any row.

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 (gear) — opens the Composition settings modal for this specific composition. See Composition 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.

Composition settings

A modal accessed from the gear icon on a composition row (per-comp) or the top-bar gear (global, applies to all comps).

The settings inside the modal include export defaults like frame range, file naming convention, output format, and any per-composition overrides.

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.