9 Best After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts

1. 9 Best After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts

2. Index • After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts • 9 Best After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts • Fit to Canvas • Fit to Canvas Width • Replace • Drag to Retime • Set Start Point or End Point • Drag to Retime • Skip Frames • Time Remapping • Unlock All Layers

3. After Effect Keyboard Shortcuts

4. With After Effects keyboard Shortcuts speed up your motion graphic workflow. • There's nothing that will speed up your motion graphic workflow better than learning keyboard shortcuts. • The more After Effect keyboard shortcuts, you know, the better. • Here are few great After effects keyboard shortcuts for Motion Graphic Designer

5. 9 Best After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts

6. After Effect Keyword Shortcuts have the power to save you a few seconds and those seconds can add up to minutes if not days saved on each one of your motion graphic projects.

7. 1. Fit to Canvas • Keyboard Shortcut: Command+Option+F • Thisshortcut will auto-scale both the width and the height of your current composition. • This shortcut will take auto scale both the height and width of the composition.

8. 2. Fit to Canvas Width • Keyboard Shortcut: Shift+Command+Option+H • This shortcut allows you to fit your layer to canvas width using this quick shortcut.

9. 3. Replace • Keyboard Shortcut: Option + Drag • You have a pre-comp or asset in the timeline, but you have decided what you want to exchange that pre-comp or asset for something new. • Instead of deleting the object, you can use this simple trick to replace objects in the timeline.

10. 4. Drag to Retime • Keyboard Shortcut: Selected Keyframes + Option • By holding down the option key and moving your keyframes, you can stretch your keyframes while proportionally preserving keyframe distance.

11. 5. Set Start Point or End Point • Keyword Shortcut: [ or ] • To quickly move the start point or end point of a layer to the playhead position, click the [ or ] button with your layer selected. • The new layer will snap to your current playheadposition. • It is excellent if you are working with external video assets or just simply trying to manipulate your object's timing.

12. 6. Drag to Retime • Keyboard Shortcut: Selected Keyframes + Option • By simply holding down the option key and moving your keyframes, you can stretch your keyframes while proportionally preserving keyframe distance.

13. 7. Skip Frames • Keyboard Shortcut: Command + Right Arrow or Left Arrow • Using the arrow keys doesn't move the playhead forward in after effects software. • Instead, if you click the arrow key, you will move your current object's position in the direction of the pressed arrow. • However, if you hold down the command button, you will run the playhead either forward or backwards

14. 8. Time Remapping • Keyboard Shortcut: Command+Option+T • Time remapping is the essential features in After Effects software. • If you are a professional motion graphic designer, odds are you probably use this feature often. • Instead of navigating to time remapping from the menu, use Command+Option+T to pop-up time remapping with keyframes already set and ready to be edited.

15. 9. Unlock All Layers • Keyboard Shortcut: Command+Shift+L • If you are working with an external project, then there is a good chance that some of the layers may be locked. • If you unlock the layers, you can either select each lock icon one-by-one or click Command+Shift+L.

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