9 Best After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts

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9 Best After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts
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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

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After Effect Keyboard Shortcuts
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• 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

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9 Best After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts
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• 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.

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1. Fit to Canvas

• Keyboard Shortcut
• CommandOptionF
• 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.

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2. Fit to Canvas Width

• Keyboard Shortcut
• ShiftCommandOptionH
• This shortcut allows you to fit your layer to
  canvas width using this quick shortcut.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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8. Time Remapping

• Keyboard Shortcut
• CommandOptionT
• 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 CommandOptionT to pop-up time
  remapping with keyframes already set and ready to
  be edited.

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9. Unlock All Layers

• Keyboard Shortcut
• CommandShiftL
• 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
  CommandShiftL.

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