Pro tools
Echo
Spawn decaying copies that lag behind a layer as it moves, a motion trail that thins and fades with each echo.
What it does
Echo spawns decaying-opacity copies that lag behind a layer's existing baked motion, a motion-blur, smear, or ghost-trail substitute. Your source layer is never touched; the echoes are real cloned nodes that follow the original a beat behind and fade toward the tail.
Interactive lesson: Echo
A guided, click-through tour of Echo in the live plugin, locked to this tool. No Figma needed.
Bake motion first
Echo post-processes motion another tool baked. It doesn't create movement of its own. Animate the layer with Camera Man, Physik, Gestural Motion, Babel, or Repeater first; it needs at least a Position (Translation) track to trail. With no motion on the layer you'll see a hint instead of a trail.
Controls
The core controls set how long and how heavy the tail is, and which tracks the echoes inherit.
- Echoes
- How many trailing copies (1–24).
- Spacing
- The time lag between each echo.
- Opacity fade
- Fades echoes toward the tail (each echo = source × (1 − fade)^i).
- Scale shrink
- Optionally shrinks echoes toward the tail.
- Echo tracks
- Chooses which tracks ride along: Position always, Scale and Rotation optional.
Per-copy offsets
Beyond a straight trail, per-copy offsets tilt and spread the echoes: Off Rotation adds degrees per echo, Off Scale adds a percentage per echo, and Off X / Off Y add pixels per echo, enough to bend a trail into a spiral or a fan.
Clear
Clear removes every echo it created (nodes tagged on bake). The original layer is left untouched.