I'm Buddy.

Your new favorite editing sidekick.

Premiere Pro After Effects

I live inside your timeline.

No browser tabs. No round-trips. Just me, After Effects, and Premiere Pro.

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FXbuddy
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Motion Home Effects
What do you want to create?
Set on fire... ✦
Duration 5s 10s 10 cr
↺ GENERATE ⚙
FXbuddyv1.0

Tell me what you see in your head.

I'll make it real in 30 seconds.
From VFX to motion graphics.

I make you look like a genius.

Artists repost your work. Clients double your rate. Other editors wonder what your secret is.

See how I work.

Jakob, Founder of FXbuddy
Jakob, Founder of FXbuddy

Why I built this

I've edited music videos for Drake, Lyrical Lemonade, Lil Yachty, and dozens of other artists. I know what it's like to sit in a session at 3am, staring at a timeline that needs ten VFX shots by morning.

For years, the options were the same: hire a VFX artist for thousands of dollars and wait days, or open After Effects and try to figure it out yourself. I always chose the second option. And it always took forever.

Then one night, I was grinding through a music video and needed a fire effect on the artist. I'd been experimenting with AI video generation on the side, and I thought: what if I could just describe what I see in my head and have it appear on my timeline? No roundtrips. No tutorials. No freelancer invoices.

I built a rough version that night. It worked. I used it on the next three projects. Clients couldn't tell the difference between my AI VFX and a $3,000 freelancer's work. That's when I knew every editor needed this.

FXbuddy is the tool I wish I had five years ago.

What if you never had to pay a VFX freelancer again?

Whether you hire out or grind through it yourself, traditional VFX is bleeding your budget dry.

Hiring a VFX Artist
$50/hr
  • 10 VFX shots for a music video ~40 hrs
  • Revisions & back-and-forth ~10 hrs
  • Compositing & color matching ~10 hrs
  • Total per project $3,000
3–5 day turnaround Limited revisions You wait on their schedule
FXbuddy
<$1/day
  • 10 VFX shots for a music video ~5 min
  • Unlimited tweaks & regenerations Instant
  • Auto-composited to your timeline Included
  • You save 98%
Results in 30 seconds Tweak until it's perfect Unlimited projects

For less than one freelancer's day rate, you get unlimited VFX on every project, every month.

Get Started

Imagine this is your next Monday

You open After Effects. A new music video project. 15 shots need VFX. Normally, that's a week of your life - or $3,000 to a freelancer.

Instead, you type a prompt. 30 seconds later, fire wraps around the artist. Another prompt - a glitch transition. Another - the car explodes. Each one lands directly on your timeline, color-matched to your footage.

By lunch, you've delivered a cut that would've taken a VFX artist a week. Your client sends the video to the label. The artist reposts it on their story and tags you. Your DMs light up with other artists asking to book you.

You didn't learn a single new skill. You didn't hire anyone. You just described what you saw in your head - and it appeared.

That's not a fantasy. That's FXbuddy on a Tuesday.

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See it in action

This is the real plugin panel. It lives right inside Premiere Pro and After Effects.

What do you want to create?

20+ Preset Effects

Explosion, Set on Fire, Earth Zoom Out, Seamless Transition, Mixed Media and more.

Coming soon

Instant Motion Graphics

Generate titles, lower thirds, logo reveals, and more straight from an image and/or text prompt.

Coming soon
FXbuddy v1.0

How It Works

From signup to stunning VFX in three steps.

1

Sign Up

Create your account and choose a plan.

2

Install

Add FXbuddy to Premiere Pro or After Effects in one click.

3

Create

Describe any VFX. Buddy handles the rest.

Editors are already loving it

From bedroom studios to Billboard-charting music videos.

“I used to charge $2K per music video. After I started adding VFX with FXbuddy, I raised my rate to $5K - and nobody flinched. The work speaks for itself.”

Alex R. Music Video Editor, LA

“The artist posted my edit on his story and tagged me. I got 14 DMs that week from other artists wanting to book me. All because of one fire effect that took me 30 seconds.”

Marcus T. Freelance Editor, Atlanta

“Another editor in my city hit me up asking how I'm doing my VFX. I just smiled. FXbuddy is my unfair advantage and I'm not sharing it.”

Priya K. Music Video Editor, London

F X b u d d y

by TINY TAPES

Let's make something unforgettable.

Just tell me what's in your head and I'll take it from there.

Premiere Pro Premiere Pro & After Effects After Effects

Still not sure? Let's talk about it.

Every editor has the same three doubts. Here's the truth.

“AI video looks fake and glitchy”

It starts from your actual footage

FXbuddy uses video-to-video generation, not image-to-video. It builds on your real clips - so the lighting, color, and motion already match. No uncanny valley. No AI drift.

Try it yourself above

“I won't know what to type”

You don't need to be a prompt engineer

FXbuddy's one-click Prompt Enhancer turns “make it look cool” into a production-ready VFX prompt. Plus, Pro members get the Music Video Prompt Bible - 100+ ready-to-paste prompts for every genre.

Included with Pro

“Clients will think I'm cutting corners”

They won't care how - they'll care how it looks

Your clients want results that look incredible. Pro members get the “Sell Your AI VFX” Guide - a step-by-step playbook for positioning AI VFX as a premium add-on that increases your rate.

Included with Pro

Your entire VFX department for $59/mo

Everything a freelance VFX artist charges thousands for - except it's instant, unlimited, and lives inside your timeline.

FXbuddy Plugin Access $497 value
750 credits/month (VFX = 10cr, Motion = 5cr) $375 value
Music Video Prompt Bible (100+ prompts) $197 value
AI Compositing Masterclass (video course) $497 value
“Sell Your AI VFX” Guide (pitch VFX as a premium service) $97 value
Priority access to new models Priceless
Total Value: $1,663
Your price: $59/mo
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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. One click in your Stripe dashboard. No questions asked, no hoops to jump through. Your access continues until the end of your billing period.

FXbuddy works with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects (CC 2022 and later). It installs as a native CEP extension panel inside your editing app.

Your footage is sent securely to our generation servers for processing, then the result is delivered back to your timeline. We don't store or use your footage for training.

Pro members get access to the exclusive Discord community. Studio and Enterprise members get priority support and direct access to the team.

If you don't generate a production-ready VFX shot within your first 7 days, we'll hop on a 1-on-1 call to engineer the prompts with you until you do. No forms, no hoops.

The 7-Day Guarantee

If you don't generate a production-ready VFX shot within your first 7 days, we'll hop on a 1-on-1 call to engineer the prompts with you until you do.

Most editors nail their first shot in under 60 seconds. Type a prompt, hit generate, and it lands on your timeline. That's it. But if you want a hand dialing it in — we're right there with you.

Early Access Pricing

Lock in early access pricing before it goes up. Once we leave beta, these prices are gone forever.

73 of 100 early access spots claimed
Let's go!

Ready to become a VFX director?

A month from now, you'll have a reel full of VFX shots that didn't exist before. Clients will see you differently. Artists will tag you. And you'll wonder why you ever edited without this.

Starting at $29/mo. Cancel anytime.