Good morning. Someone brought the Premiere Pro timeline into After Effects. The “Railcut” plugin gives you track-based editing natively inside AE, cut, slip, slide, ripple edit, waveforms, and thumbnails, without ever leaving the app.
Also, new research on the state of the product job market in early 2026 is out, and despite all the headlines about layoffs and AI taking jobs, the data is surprisingly optimistic.
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In this week's resource recap:
Railcut brings track-based editing to After Effects, no more round-tripping to Premiere Pro.
New research on the state of the product job market in early 2026.
Framer's State of Sites '26, surveying 1,900+ web professionals
AI video tool traffic shifted in the 12 months following Sora's shutdown.
And more...
TOOLS
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TOOLS
🔥 Railcut brings "track-based editing" to After Effects
After Effects with a Premiere Pro-like timeline
Jake In Motion built the editing timeline that After Effects never had.
Railcut translates your After Effects layers into clips on tracks, lets you drag assets straight from the project panel onto the timeline, and gives you real editing tools natively inside the app (e.g., cut, ripple, lift, extract, close a gap, and more).
The pitch is simple: get your edit together inside After Effects, skip the round trip to Premiere, and move on with the rest of your project.
You also get accurate clip thumbnails, audio waveforms, and full keyframe editability.
There's a complete suite of keyboard shortcuts imported from other editing apps, and they're all customizable.
Real-time playback, which After Effects historically couldn't do, is now genuinely achievable with modern hardware.
Railcut is $10 off during its launch week.
RESOURCES
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🧰 Other tools worth checking out this week:
FlappyBoards is now free for everyone, a flexible digital whiteboard built for fast visual thinking.
Lil' Pixel Icon: a Figma plugin for designing pixel-perfect icons in 16x16 or 32x32 grids, fully vector-based with image-to-pixel tracing and palette tools.
Scribble Maps: drag any geodata file (Shp, GeoJSON, CSV) onto a map and share it instantly, free with no account needed.
NotebookLM: Google's AI research assistant for making sense of long documents, recordings, and notes.
Supercut: Import Loom recordings directly into Supercut for fast, AI-powered editing.
Pine: AI-powered forms that go beyond basic collection (generate questions, collect responses, and surface insights automatically, all in one place).
Ficus: describe an interactive block and go live instantly. Polls, quizzes, Q&A, word clouds (built for presentations, meetings, webinars, and events).
RESOURCES
📋 The "State of the Product Job Market in Early 2026" is out
Despite all the headlines about layoffs and AI displacing workers, the actual hiring data tells a more optimistic story. This is the fourth edition of Lenny Newsletter’s biannual research, and the most optimistic one yet.
Here's what the data shows:
Design roles have plateaued. Unlike PM (product management) and engineering, open design jobs have been flat since early 2023. The theory: as AI lets engineers move faster, there's less opportunity (and desire) to involve the traditional design process.
Product management job openings are at their highest level in over three years, up 75% from the 2023 low and already up nearly 20% since the start of this year.
There are 67,000+ open engineering roles at tech companies globally right now. AI hasn't slowed demand for engineers (the pace is actually accelerating).
AI roles are hockey-sticking. That covers all roles at AI-first companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Lovable) as well as AI-specific roles at non-AI companies.
Product management demand is now outpacing design. In mid-2023, there were more open designer roles than PM roles. That ratio has flipped, and PM demand continues to pull away (currently at 1.27x).
The Bay Area keeps growing its share of tech jobs, with over 23% of all open PM roles there now, up 50% since 2022. NYC has firmly established itself as the #2 tech hub globally.
Remote opportunities continue to decline.
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📚 Other resources worth bookmarking:
Free Browser Mockups: browser-frame mockups for product screenshots and presentations.
Material Icons: a free, curated icon library ready to drop into any project.
Lovable Academy: a new learning hub for building with Lovable, with prompting guides, video lessons, idea grids, and a remixable template catalog.
Rolling Stone on AI in music: how hip-hop producers are using AI to recreate funk and soul samples rather than licensing originals or hiring musicians.
RESEARCH
📊 Similarweb maps AI video tool traffic after Sora's shutdown
OpenAI shut down Sora on March 24, 2026. But if you look at the Similarweb traffic data, the market had already moved on well before the announcement.
Here's what 12 months of traffic data actually shows:
Sora peaked at 43-50% of all AI video generation traffic between April and June 2025, riding its launch hype. By February 2026, that share had collapsed to around 10%.
Grok Imagine (xAI's tool, which Musk has described as "an AI Vine") went from a negligible share in mid-2025 to roughly 40-45% of category traffic by February 2026 (the clear winner).
Sora's downloads peaked at 3.3 million in November 2025, then dropped 32% in December, and were down nearly 75% from peak by February 2026.
The app generated only $2.1 million in total in-app purchase revenue across its entire lifetime.
The shutdown also killed a $1 billion Disney deal that would have brought Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters to the platform.
With Sora gone, xAI is already doubling down. Musk posted that "the next Grok Imagine release will be epic" within hours of the shutdown announcement.
📺 New tutorials worth watching this week:
How to create a seamless looping social video: Premiere Gal walks through the technique using Premiere and Adobe Firefly. When the loop is tight enough that viewers don't notice the reset, watch time climbs.
How to multistream on Instagram Live: 80% of Instagram interactions come from non-followers, and live video is one of the best ways to get discovered. Restream walks through the setup.
WEB DESIGN
🌐 Framer releases the "State of Sites '26" report
Framer surveyed 1,900+ website professionals (designers, marketers, frontend devs, and more) on how websites really get built and managed today. The top-line finding: launching a site has never been easier, but running one has never been harder.
Here's what stood out from the data:
53% of all website work is general edits and fixes. Teams spend more time maintaining than actually improving.
70% of website projects get deprioritized because they're too slow or difficult to ship. One survey respondent summed it up: "Projects went back to square one because the CEO didn't like how it looked."
71% say conversion is a top KPI, but almost none have the tools to actually optimize for it.
No single team owns the website. Ownership is split across design, marketing, content, and engineering, and that fragmentation is why projects stall.
Speed of iteration is the real advantage. The fastest teams have the fewest steps between idea and live page.
Also: Recraft introduced a new plugin for Framer this week. It allows you to create and edit images, icons, and logos directly on the canvas.
