9 Best After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts

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9 BEST AFTER EFFECTS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS


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After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts

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9 Best After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

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


AFTER EFFECT KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS


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


9 BEST AFTER EFFECTS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS


 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.


1. FIT TO CANVAS 

Keyboard Shortcut: Command+Option+F

This shortcut 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.


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.


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.


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.


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 playhead position.

It is excellent if you are working with external video assets or just simply trying to manipulate your object's timing.


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.


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


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.


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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