Aether FX Optimizer

Aether FX Optimizer is a desktop control room for Adobe After Effects. It combines Tauri, SvelteKit, and Bun to give editors, motion designers, and pipeline engineers a single place to:

• inventory every detected After Effects install, runtime profile, and cache folder;
• surface plugin health, GPU/CPU preferences, power settings, and startup noise;
• keep .aep / .aepx / .aet projects discoverable with an Everything-backed index;
• mute noisy background services with a session mode that re-enables them after the work is done.

Everything works together to keep After Effects fast and repeatable across machines.

Core capability highlights

1. After Effects polyglot panel – every discovered install shows its executable, version, cache/profile paths, and per-run performance mode switches (balanced, GPU priority, or CPU priority).
2. Plugin health cockpit – filters for unsigned binaries and duplicates, plus grouping by version, common, or user MediaCore roots so you can collapse noise and zoom into risky files.
3. Everything-aware project index – detects es.exe on PATH, falls back to a filesystem walker, and gives you quick/full scans that list top .aep/.aepx/.aet files with drive, size, and timestamps.
4. Session mute mode – scored startup items can be disabled in batch and automatically restored once work is done, keeping the CPU from being poked by background helpers.
5. Startup noise scanner – ranked list of high-score entries with inline disable controls so you can prune the most disruptive helpers without leaving the UI.
6. Cache & profile hygiene – hero controls let you purge every detected RAM/disk cache or reset specific installs without hunting folders manually.
7. Power & GPU tuning – set the Windows processor cap (stable vs performance), choose a GPU boost preference, and have the UI remind you when Everything could power the scan faster.

Prerequisites

• Bun v1+ on your path (the repo uses Bun scripts for every lifecycle command).
• Rust stable with the cargo toolchain (Tauri builds the bundled desktop binary).
• Tauri CLI (bun run tauri wraps every Rust invocation).
• Optional: Everything for instant system-wide project indexing. The app displays whether es.exe was found and exposes a download link.

Getting started

bun install
# Use the local config if bun is not in your global path
bun run tauri:local dev

1. Open http://localhost:1420 after the dev server starts.
2. Refresh the central scan page to see system overviews, plugin/group summaries, and the startup noise board.
3. Use the session mode buttons, plugin filters, and performance toggles that are now wired into the backend commands (e.g., get_everything_status, set_performance_mode).

Building for release

bun run check
bun run tauri build

The bundled artifacts appear under src-tauri/target/release/bundle. Use the release workflow described below to publish GitHub releases automatically.

GitHub release automation

A dedicated workflow (.github/workflows/release.yml) runs whenever you push a v* tag. It:

1. Sets up Bun, Rust, and required Linux dependencies (libwebkit2gtk, pkg-config, libssl, libgtk-3).
2. Runs bun install, bun run check, and bun run tauri build.
3. Zips every file in src-tauri/target/release/bundle into build/ae-tools-app-${{ github.run_number }}.zip.
4. Uses softprops/action-gh-release to publish the zipped artifact to the new release.

Tag v1.0.0, v1.0.1, etc., and the workflow will recreate release assets for you.

Additional tips

• Use the Everything status card to confirm es.exe is discoverable before running a full project scan.
• Expand a plugin group to see source-specific counts and reduce jitter by collapsing sections you don’t care about.
• The session panel remembers what it muted so you can always restore the same list in one click.
• Keep the hero action bar handy for power-cap toggles and workspace-wide cache cleanup, especially before sending renders to After Effects.
• The Everything status card now ships its own “Auto install Everything” controls — pick x86/x64 installers or portable ZIPs and the app will download, open, and (when possible) launch them inside %TEMP%.

Marketing assets

Use the same 16:9 hero footage and neon gradient mark to highlight how the tool brings Everything indexing, session mode, GPU tuning, and cache hygiene into one dashboard.

Branded icon + launcher assets

If you want the shipped desktop window, taskbar shortcut, and OS dock to show the new Aether FX logo, drop your master PNG into static/aetherfx-logo.png and then regenerate the Tauri icon set inside src-tauri/icons/. On macOS/Linux you need full-resolution PNG variants (32, 128, icon.png, icon.icns, icon.ico). On Windows you can use a tool like ImageMagick or icotool to downscale/encode icon.ico. For example:

cp static/aetherfx-logo.png src-tauri/icons/32x32.png
cp static/aetherfx-logo.png src-tauri/icons/128x128.png
# regenerate icon.icns/icon.ico with iconutil / imagemagick ...

Once those files contain your custom logo, the next bun run tauri build or CI release run will embed it in the title bar, taskbar, and installer.

Feedback & contributions

Improve the backend commands in src-tauri/src or the Svelte components in src/lib/components and run bun run check to stay aligned with the project conventions.