MANUAL / PLUGIN

Palf Stripe

Angled stripes with independent thickness, spacing and phase.

Installation

01
Quit Adobe After Effects completely.
02
Copy Stripe.aex (Windows) or Stripe.plugin (macOS) into the After Effects Plug-ins folder.
03
Start After Effects and apply from Effect > Palf > Palf Stripe. If After Effects was already running, restart it so the plug-in loads.

Windows: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects <version>\Support Files\Plug-ins\
macOS: /Applications/Adobe After Effects <version>/Plug-ins/

Requirements: After Effects 2023–2026 / Windows / macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) or later.

Caution (macOS)

If macOS blocks the plug-in and it will not load, run the following command in Terminal (enter the path for your install), then restart After Effects.

sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Adobe After Effects <version>/Plug-ins/Stripe.plugin"

Caution (rejected-plug-in cache)

If a previous version failed to load once, After Effects on Mac may keep rejecting the plug-in from cache even after you replace the .plugin file. Hold Shift while launching After Effects to clear the plug-in cache; it may then load. Moving or renaming the preferences file aside before launch is fine too.

~/Library/Preferences/com.Adobe.After Effects.<version>.plist

How to use

01
Apply Palf Stripe to a layer.
02
Set Thickness and Spacing, then place the pattern with Centre and Angle.
03
Animate Offset; 360 degrees moves one Thickness period.
04
Choose a Colour and either Draw On Top or Transparent.

Parameters

Thickness: Stripe width in layer pixels. Range 0–4096, default 10.
Spacing: Gap in layer pixels. Range 0–4096, default 10.
Centre: Pattern origin. Default 50%, 50%.
Angle: Stripe direction; positive values rotate clockwise. Default 0 degrees.
Offset: Phase; 360 degrees advances one Thickness period. Default 0 degrees.
Colour: Stripe colour. Default white.
Mode: Draw On Top / Transparent. Default: Draw On Top.

Tips

Animate Offset for a looping stripe movement. Draw On Top uses straight alpha-over and keeps semitransparent edges clean. Transparent keeps source alpha while setting RGB to zero.

DEMO edition

The free DEMO offers the same controls as the full edition, with a red cross watermark on every output frame. The effect appears as “Palf Stripe DEMO” (Stripe_DEMO.aex / Stripe_DEMO.plugin) and can sit alongside the full plug-in.