Adobe After Effects Shortcuts

General

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Select all

Rename selected item

Open selected layer, composition, or footage item

On numeric keypad

Move selected items in stack order in stacking ...

Move selected items to top/bottom

Select next item in panel

Select previous item in panel

Duplicate selected items

Quit

Undo

Redo

Interrupt running a script

Display filename corresponding to the frame at ...

Projects

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New project

Open project

Open most recent project

New folder in Project panel

Open Project Settings dialog box

Find in Project panel

Preferences

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Open Preferences dialog box

Panels, viewers, workspaces

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Open or close Project panel

Open or close Render Queue panel

Open or close Tools panel

Open or close Info panel

Open or close Preview panel

Open or close Audio panel

Open or close Effects & Presets panel

Open or close Character panel

Open or close Paragraph panel

Open or close Paint panel

Open or close Brushes panel

Close active viewer or panel (closes content fi...

Close active panel or all viewers of type of ac...

Split the frame containing the active viewer an...

Cycle to previous or next item in active viewer...

Cycle to previous or next panel in active frame...

Activate

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Activate Selection tool

Activate Hand tool

Temporarily activate Hand tool

Hold down to temporarily switch to Hand tool

Activate Zoom In tool

Activate Zoom Out tool

Activate Rotation tool

Activate Roto Brush tool

Activate Refine Edge tool

Activate and cycle through Camera tools (Unifie...

Activate Pan Behind tool

Activate and cycle through mask and shape tools...

Activate and cycle through Type tools (Horizont...

Activate and cycle between the Pen and Mask Fea...

Temporarily activate Selection tool when a pen ...

Temporarily activate Pen tool when the Selectio...

Activate and cycle through Brush, Clone Stamp, ...

Activate and cycle through Puppet tools

Temporarily convert Selection tool to Shape Dup...

Temporarily convert Selection tool to Direct Se...

Composition

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New composition

Open Composition Settings dialog box for select...

Set beginning or end of work area to current time

Set work area to duration of selected layers or...

Open Composition Mini-Flowchart for active comp...

Activate the most recently active composition t...

Trim Composition to work area

Time navigation

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Go to specific time

Go to beginning or end of work area

Go to previous or next visible item in time rul...

Go to beginning of composition, layer, or foota...

Go to end of composition, layer, or footage item

Go forward 1 frame

Go forward 10 frames

Go backward 1 frame

Go backward 10 frames

Go to layer In point

Go to layer Out point

Go to previous In point or Out point

Go to next In point or Out point

Scroll to current time in Timeline panel

Previews

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Start or stop preview

Preview only audio, in work area

On numeric keypad

Preview number of frames specified by Alternate...

On numeric keypad

Fast Previews > Off

Fast Previews > Adaptive Resolution

Fast Previews > Draft

Fast Previews > Fast Draft

Fast Previews > Wireframe

Views

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Show red, green, blue, or alpha channel as gray...

Show colorized red, green, or blue channel

Toggle showing straight RGB color

Show alpha boundary (outline between transparen...

Show alpha overlay (colored overlay on transpar...

Show Refine Edge X-ray

Zoom-in in Composition, Layer, or Footage panel

On main keyboard

Set resolution to Full, Half, or Custom in Comp...

Open View Options dialog box for active Composi...

Zoom out time

On main keyboard

Zoom in Timeline panel to single-frame units (P...

Zoom out in Timeline panel to show the entire c...

Prevent images from being rendered for previews...

Show or hide rulers

Show or hide guides

Turn snapping to guides on or off

Lock or unlock guides

Show or hide layer controls (masks, motion path...

Footage

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Import one file or image sequence

Import multiple files or image sequences

Delete a footage item without a warning

Open Interpret Footage dialog box for selected ...

Remember footage interpretation

Edit selected footage item in application with ...

Replace selected footage item

Reload selected footage items

Set proxy for selected footage item

Effects and animation presets

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Delete all effects from selected layers

Apply most recently applied effect to selected ...

Apply most recently applied animation preset to...

Layers

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New solid layer

New null layer

New adjustment layer

Select next layer in stacking order

Select previous layer in stacking order

Extend selection to next layer in stacking order

Extend selection to previous layer in stacking ...

Deselect all layers

Scroll topmost selected layer to top of Timelin...

Setting the sampling method for selected layers...

Turn Video (eyeball) switch on or off for selec...

Turn off Video switch for all video layers othe...

Open settings dialog box for selected solid, li...

Paste layers at current time

Split selected layers. (If no layers are select...

Precompose selected layers

Open Effect Controls panel for selected layers

Reverse selected layers in time

Enable time remapping for selected layers

Set In point or Out point by time-stretching

Move selected layers so that their In point is ...

Move selected layers so that their Out point is...

Lock selected layers

Unlock all layers

Set Quality to Best, Draft, or Wireframe for se...

Find in Timeline panel

Showing properties and groups in the Timeline panel

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Find in Timeline panel

Show only Anchor Point property (for lights and...

Show only Audio Levels property

Show only Mask Feather property

Show only Mask Path property

Show only Mask Opacity property

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Show only Opacity property (for lights, Intensity)

Show only Position property

Show only Rotation and Orientation properties

Show only Scale property

Show only Time Remap property

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Show only instances of missing effects

then

Show only Effects property group

Show only mask property groups

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Show only Material Options property group

then

Show only expressions

then

Show properties with keyframes

Show only modified properties

then

Show only paint strokes, Roto Brush strokes, an...

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Show only audio waveform

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Show only selected properties and groups

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Modifying layer properties

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Open Auto-Orientation dialog box for selected l...

Open Opacity dialog box for selected layers

Open Rotation dialog box for selected layers

Open Position dialog box for selected layers

Center-selected layers in view (modifies Positi...

Center anchor point in the visible content

Move selected layers 1 frame earlier or later

Move selected layers 10 frames earlier or later

Scale and reposition selected layers to fit com...

3D Layers

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Return to previous view

New light

New camera

With a camera tool selected, move the camera an...

Turn Casts Shadows property on or off for selec...

Keyframes and the Graph Editor

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Select all visible keyframes and properties

Move keyframe 1 frame later or earlier

Move keyframe 10 frames later or earlier

Set interpolation for selected keyframes (layer...

Set keyframe interpolation method to hold or Au...

Set velocity for selected keyframes

Text

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New text layer

Align selected horizontal text left, center, or...

Align selected vertical text top, center, or bo...

Extend or reduce selection by one character to ...

Extend or reduce selection by one word to right...

Extend or reduce selection by one line up or do...

Extend or reduce selection by one line to right...

Extend or reduce selection one word up or down ...

Extend or reduce selection by one character up ...

Select text from insertion point to beginning o...

Move insertion point to beginning or end of line

Select text from insertion point to beginning o...

In horizontal text, move insertion point one ch...

In vertical text, move insertion point one char...

Turn All Caps on or off for selected text

Turn Small Caps on or off for selected text

Set horizontal scale to 100% for selected text

Set vertical scale to 100% for selected text

Auto leading for selected text

Reset tracking to 0 for selected text

Justify paragraph; left align last line

Justify paragraph; right align last line

Justify paragraph; force last line

Decrease or increase font size of selected text...

Increase or decrease leading by 2 units

Increase or decrease leading by 10 units

Decrease or increase baseline shift by 2 units

Decrease or increase baseline shift by 10 units

Decrease or increase kerning or tracking 20 uni...

Decrease or increase kerning or tracking 100 un...

Toggle paragraph composer

Masks

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New mask

Exit free-transform mask editing mode

Invert selected mask

Open Mask Feather dialog box for selected mask

Open Mask Shape dialog box for selected mask

Subtract mode

Darken mode

Difference mode

Add mode

Intersect mode

None

Paint tools

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Swap paint background color and foreground colors

Set paint foreground color to black and backgro...

Momentarily activate Eraser tool with Last Stro...

Activate a specific Clone Stamp tool preset

Set flow for a paint tool to 100%

On numeric keypad

Move earlier or later by number of frames speci...

Shape Layers

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Group selected shapes

Ungroup selected shapes

Saving, exporting, and rendering

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Save project

Increment and save project

Save As

Add current frame to render queue

Duplicate render item with same output filename...

Add a composition to the Adobe Media Encoder en...