If you use After Effects.
Grapple gives you layers, keys, the Graph, masks, cameras and expressions on an editing timeline, with roto, tracking and a camera solve built in. Your motion piece and the edit around it are one project, and Ape builds in it beside you.
What will feel familiar
- Layers on a Stage, with text, shapes and masks.
- Keys and the Graph, with F9 for easy ease and J and K between keys.
- Cameras, lights, 3D layers and parenting.
- Expressions on any property, written in Python.
What Grapple adds
The edit, the motion and the finishing in one project, and the tools you’d otherwise buy as extras.
The edit and the motion together
Cut with ripple, roll, slip and slide on the same Timeline your titles animate on, so a change to the cut never means a round trip to another app.
Roto and tracking inside
Subject Select and Refine Edge for mattes, point and plane tracking with attach, stabilising and a camera solve.
Tools you’d install as scripts
Stagger layers, Wiggle, Sway, Arm rig, Anchor points and Camera tour come with Grapple, and Ape writes the next one you need.
Ape builds, you keep the controls
Ask for a title sequence and Ape makes the layers, keys and effects, with named Controls for the choices that matter. You tune them while the piece plays.
Try a title sequence you know.
Brief Ape on the wording, the timing and how it moves. Then open what it built in the Graph and make it yours.
Try it on a motion piece you know.
Grapple is a one-time payment of $99. Buy it during the public preview and it’s 50% off: $49.50.