Use cases

Prism fits the work you already do. Here are real-world ways designers, editors, and studios use it day to day — pick the job, ask in plain language, and the result lands as native, editable After Effects work.

Captions and subtitles

• Caption a talking-head video — transcribe the voiceover and drop timed, editable subtitle layers.
• Subtitle a social reel — styled for vertical, as one running line or word-by-word.
• Pull a transcript from any clip — get word-level timed text to repurpose however you like.

Music and rhythm

• Cut to the beat — detect the tempo and lay frame-accurate beat markers, then snap your cuts and hits to them.
• Make graphics react to sound — drive scale or opacity from the audio so a logo pulses with the track.
• Score a piece — generate original music to a mood, or land a sound effect on the exact frame.

Bring design in

• Animate a brand logo — import an SVG as real, editable layers and animate each piece.
• Drop in icons — place any of thousands of icons as recolorable shape layers.
• Build a chart or diagram — turn numbers into editable shape-layer charts and flowcharts.
• Import a Lottie — bring a Lottie animation in already moving and fully editable.
• Generate a background or texture — conjure an image from a description, placed at the playhead.

Animate by intent

• Animate a title — describe the reveal ("slide up, settle with a soft spring") and get real, eased keyframes.
• Give motion real weight — apply the Disney principles — anticipation, follow-through, overshoot — by intent.
• Rig a controller — build sliders and link properties so a whole rig moves together.
• Animate from a voiceover — drop in narration, get timed captions plus per-phrase timing to build against.

Repurpose and rebrand

• Reformat to vertical or square — resize a finished comp and rescale everything inside to fit a new aspect ratio.
• Re-skin a template to a client's brand — recolor by role (primary, accent, background) and swap the font across the project.
• Pull a brand kit from a logo — extract the exact palette and fonts straight from a brand mark.

Fix and finish

• Heal a handed-off project — find every offline asset and relink it by matching files in a folder.
• Clean up a messy project — auto-organize the bin, give same-named comps unique names, and merge duplicate footage.
• Swap a placeholder for the final — replace a layer's source while keeping its keyframes, effects, and masks.
• Apply a finished look — drop a cinematic grade (VHS, neon glow, film grain) or a real LUT in one step.
• Audit before a render — one health check for broken expressions, missing fonts, and offline media.

Edit a whole project

• Restructure an entire project — export it to one editable file, have an AI rewrite the whole tree, and import it back.

Related

• Connect your AI — set up once, then drive any of these from a plain-language prompt.
• The MCP panel and the Tools panel — the features behind these use cases.