After Effects

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Undo

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Rename selected layer, composition, folder, effect, group, or mask

Open selected layer, composition, or footage item

Extend selection to next item in Project panel, Render Queue panel, or Effect Controls panel

Extend selection to previous item in Project panel, Render Queue panel, or Effect Controls panel

Duplicate selected layers, masks, effects, text selectors, animators, puppet meshes, shapes, render items, output modules, or compositions

Purge All Memory

Interrupt running a script

Display filename corresponding to the frame at the current time in the Info panel

Move selected layers, masks, effects, or render items down (back) or up (forward) in stacking order

Move selected layers, masks, effects, or render items to bottom (back) or top (front) of stacking order

New project

Open project

Open most recent project

Find in Project panel

New folder in Project panel

Open Project Settings dialog box

Cycle through color bit depths for project

Cycle through tools

Activate Selection tool

Activate Hand tool

Temporarily activate Hand tool

Activate Zoom In tool

Activate Zoom Out tool

Activate Rotation tool

Activate Roto Brush tool

Activate Refine Edge tool

Activate Pan Behind tool

Activate and cycle through Camera tools (Unified Camera, Orbit Camera, Track XY Camera, and Track Z Camera)

Activate and cycle through mask and shape tools (Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star)

Activate and cycle through Type tools (Horizontal and Vertical)

Activate and cycle between the Pen and Mask Feather tools. (Note: You can turn off this setting in the Preferences dialog box.)

Temporarily activate Selection tool when a pen tool is selected

Temporarily activate Pen tool when the Selection tool is selected and pointer is over a path

Activate and cycle through Brush, Clone Stamp, and Eraser tools

Activate and cycle through Puppet tools

Temporarily convert Selection tool to Shape Duplication tool

Temporarily convert Selection tool to Direct Selection tool

Open Preferences dialog box

Restore default preferences settings

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

Open or close Effect Controls panel for selected layer

Open Flowchart panel for project flowchart

Switch to workspace

Close active viewer or panel (closes content first)

Close active panel or all viewers of type of active viewer (closes content first). For example, if a Timeline panel is active, this command closes all Timeline panels.

Split the frame containing the active viewer and create a viewer with opposite locked/unlocked state

Maximize or restore panel under pointer

Resize application window or floating window to fit screen. (Press again to resize window so that contents fill the screen.)

Move application window or floating window to main monitor; resize window to fit screen. (Press again to resize window so that contents fill the screen.)

Toggle activation between Composition panel and Timeline panel for current composition

Cycle to next item in active viewer 

Cycle to next panel in active frame

Activate a view in a multi-view layout in the Composition panel without affecting layer selection

New composition

Open Composition Settings dialog box for selected composition

Set end of work area to current time

Set work area to duration of selected layers or, if no layers are selected, set work area to composition duration

Open Composition Mini-Flowchart for active composition

Activate the most recently active composition that is in the same composition hierarchy (network of nested compositions) as the currently active composition

Trim Composition to work area

New Composition from selection

Go to specific time

Go to beginning or end of work area

Go to next visible item in time ruler

Go to beginning of composition, layer, or footage item

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

Start or stop the preview

Reset preview settings to replicate RAM Preview and Standard Preview behaviors

Preview only audio from the current time

Preview only audio in the work area

Manually preview (scrub) video

Manually preview (scrub) audio

Preview number of frames specified by Alternate Preview preference (defaults to 5)

Toggle Mercury Transmit video preview

Take snapshot

Display snapshot in the active viewer

Purge snapshot

Fast Previews > Off

Fast Previews > Adaptive Resolution

Fast Previews > Draft

Fast Previews > Fast Draft

Fast Previews > Wireframe

Turn display color management on or off for an active view

Show red, green, blue, or alpha channel as grayscale, Alt + 1, Alt + 2, Alt + 3, Alt + 4, Option + 1, Option + 2

Show colorized red, green, or blue channel, Alt + Shift + 1, Alt + Shift + 2, Alt + Shift + 3, Option + Shift + 1

Toggle showing straight RGB color

Show the alpha boundary (outline between transparent and opaque regions) in the Layer panel

Show alpha overlay (colored overlay on transparent regions) in the Layer panel

Show Refine Edge X-ray

Center composition in the panel

Zoom-in in Composition, Layer, or Footage panel

Zoom-out in Composition, Layer, or Footage panel

Zoom to 100% in the Composition, Layer, or Footage panel

Zoom to fit in Composition, Layer, or Footage panel

Zoom up to 100% to fit in the Composition, Layer, or Footage panel

Set resolution to Full, Half, or Custom in the Composition panel, Ctrl + J, Ctrl + Shift + J, Ctrl + Alt + J, Command + J

Open the View Options dialog box for the active Composition panel

Zoom in time

Zoom out time

Zoom in the Timeline panel to single-frame units (Press again to zoom out to show the entire composition duration.)

Zoom out in the Timeline panel to show the entire composition duration (Press again to zoom back into the duration specified by the Time Navigator.)

Prevent images from being rendered for previews in viewer panels

Show or hide safe zones

Show or hide the grid

Show or hide the proportional grid

Show or hide rulers

Show or hide guides

Turn snapping to grid on or off

Turn snapping to guides on or off

Lock or unlock guides

Show or hide layer controls (masks, motion paths, light and camera wireframes, effect control points, and layer handles)

Import one file or image sequence

Import multiple files or image sequences

Open movie in an After Effects Footage panel

Add selected items to most recently activated composition

Replace selected source footage for selected layers with footage item selected in Project panel

Replace source for a selected layer

Delete a footage item without a warning

Open Interpret Footage dialog box for selected footage item

Remember footage interpretation

Edit selected footage item in application with which it’s associated (Edit Original)

Replace selected footage item

Reload selected footage items

Set proxy for selected footage item

Delete all effects from selected layers

Apply most recently applied effect to selected layers

Apply most recently applied animation preset to selected layers

Set Quality to Draft for selected layers

Set Quality to Best for selected layers

Set Quality to Wireframe for selected layers

New solid layer

New null layer

New adjustment layer

Select layer 12 

Toggle selection of layer 12

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 order

Deselect all layers

Scroll topmost selected layer to top of Timeline panel

Show or hide Parent column

Show or hide Layer Switches and Modes columns

Setting the sampling method for selected layers (Best/Bilinear)

Setting the sampling method for selected layers (Best/Bicubic)

Turn off all other solo switches

Turn Video (eyeball) switch on or off for selected layers

Turn off Video switch for all video layers other than selected layers

Open settings dialog box for selected solid, light, camera, null, or adjustment layer

Paste layers at current time

Split selected layers. (If no layers are selected, split all layers.)

Precompose selected layers

Open Effect Controls panel for selected layers

Open layer in Layer panel (opens source composition for precomposition layer in Composition panel)

Open source of a layer in Footage panel (opens precomposition layer in Layer panel)

Reverse selected layers in time

Enable time remapping for selected layers

Move selected layers so that their In point is at the current time

Trim In point of selected layers to current time

Add or remove expression for a property

Add an effect (or multiple selected effects) to selected layers

Set In point or Out point by time-stretching

Move selected layers so that their In point is at beginning of composition

Move selected layers so that their Out point is at end of composition

Lock selected layers

Unlock all layers

Cycle forward  through blending modes for selected layers

Find in Timeline panel

Toggle expansion of selected layers to show all properties

Toggle expansion of property group and all child property groups to show all properties

Show only Anchor Point property (for lights and cameras, Point Of Interest)

Show only Audio Levels property

Show only Mask Feather property

Show only Mask Path property

Show only Mask Opacity property

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

Show only instances of missing effects

Show only Effects property group

Show only mask property groups

Show only Material Options property group

Show only expressions

Show properties with keyframes

Show only modified properties

Show only paint strokes, Roto Brush strokes, and Puppet pins

Show only audio waveform

Show only selected properties and groups

Hide property or group

Toggle expansion of selected effects to show all properties

Modify property value by default increments

Modify property value by 10x default increments

Modify property value by 1/10 default increments

Open Auto-Orientation dialog box for selected layers

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 Position property to place anchor points of selected layers in center of current view)

Center anchor point in the visible content

Move selected layers 1 pixel down at current magnification (Position)

Move selected layers 10 pixels up at current magnification (Position)

Move selected layers 1 frame earlier

Move selected layers 10 frames earlier

Increase Rotation (Z Rotation) of selected layers by 1°

Increase  Rotation (Z Rotation) of selected layers by 10°

Increase Opacity (or Intensity for light layers) of selected layers by 1%

Increase Opacity (or Intensity for light layers) of selected layers by 10%

Increase Scale of selected layers by 1%

Decrease Scale of selected layers by 1%

Increase Scale of selected layers by 10%

Decrease Scale of selected layers by 10%

Modify Rotation or Orientation in 45° increments

Reset Rotation to 0°

Reset Scale to 100%

Scale and reposition selected layers to fit composition

Scale and reposition selected layers to fit composition width, preserving image aspect ratio for each layer

Scale and reposition selected layers to fit composition height, preserving image aspect ratio for each layer

Switch to 3D view 1 (defaults to Front)

Switch to 3D view 2 (defaults to Custom View 1)

Switch to 3D view 3 (defaults to Active Camera)

Return to previous view

New light

Switch to Orbit camera control

Switch to Pan camera control

Switch to Dolly camera control

New camera

Switch to Universal gizmo

Switch to Position gizmo

Switch to Scale gizmo

Switch to Rotation gizmo

Move the camera and its point of interest to look at selected 3D layers

With a camera tool selected, move the camera and its point of interest to look at selected 3D layers

With a camera tool selected, move the camera and its point of interest to look at all 3D layers

Turn Casts Shadows property on or off for selected 3D layers

Toggle between Graph Editor and layer bar modes

Select all keyframes for a property

Select all visible keyframes and properties

Deselect all keyframes, properties, and property groups

Move keyframe 1 frame later or earlier

Move keyframe 10 frames later or earlier

Set interpolation for selected keyframes (layer bar mode)

Set keyframe interpolation method to hold or Auto Bezier

Set keyframe interpolation method to linear or Auto Bezier

Set keyframe interpolation method to linear or hold

Easy ease selected keyframes

Easy ease selected keyframes in

Easy ease selected keyframes out

Set velocity for selected keyframes

Align selected text left

Select whole line

Align selected text right

Align selected text center

Select whole word

Select whole paragraph

New text layer

Extend selection by one character to right or left in horizontal text

Extend selection by one word to right or left in horizontal text

Extend or reduce selection by one line up in horizontal text

Extend or reduce selection by one line to right in vertical text

Extend or reduce selection one word up in vertical text

Extend or reduce selection by one character up in vertical text

Select text from insertion point to end of line

Move insertion point to end of line

Select all text on a layer

Select text from insertion point to end of text frame

To mouse-click point, select text from insertion point

Turn All Caps on or off for selected text

Turn Small Caps on or off for selected text

Turn Superscript on or off for selected text

Turn Subscript 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

Increase font size of selected text by 2 units

Increase font size of selected text by 10 units

Increase leading by 2 units

Increase leading by 10 units

Increase baseline shift by 2 units

Increase baseline shift by 10 units

Increase kerning or tracking 20 units (20/1000 ems)

Increase kerning or tracking 100 units (100/1000 ems)

Toggle paragraph composer

New mask

Select all points in a mask

Select the next or previous mask

Enter free-transform mask editing mode

Exit free-transform mask editing mode

Scale around the center point in Free Transform mode

Move selected path points 1 pixel right at the current magnification

Move selected path points 10 pixels left at the current magnification

Toggle between smooth and corner points

Redraw Bezier handles

Invert selected mask

Open the Mask Feather dialog box for selected mask

Open the Mask Shape dialog box for selected mask

Subtract mode

Darken mode

Difference mode

Add mode

Intersect mode

None

Swap paint background color and foreground colors

Set paint foreground color to black and background color to white

Set foreground color to the color currently under any paint tool pointer

Set foreground color to the average color of a 4-pixel x 4-pixel area under any paint tool pointer

Set brush size for a paint tool

Set brush hardness for a paint tool

Join current paint stroke to the previous stroke

Set starting sample point to point currently under Clone Stamp tool pointer

Momentarily activate Eraser tool with Last Stroke Only option

Show and move overlay (change Offset value of aligned Clone Stamp tool or change Source Position value of unaligned Clone Stamp tool)

Activate Clone Stamp tool preset 5

Duplicate a Clone Stamp tool preset in Paint panel

Set opacity for a paint tool to 60%

Set opacity for a paint tool to 100%

Set flow for a paint tool to 30%

Set flow for a paint tool to 100%

Move earlier by number of frames specified for stroke Duration

Group selected shapes

Ungroup selected shapes

Enter free-transform path editing mode

Increase star inner roundness

Decrease star inner roundness

Increase number of points for star or polygon; increase roundness for rounded rectangle

Decrease number of points for star or polygon; decrease roundness for rounded rectangle

Reposition shape during creation

Set rounded rectangle roundness to 0 (sharp corners); decrease polygon and star outer roundness

Set rounded rectangle roundness to maximum; increase polygon and star outer roundness

Constrain rectangles to squares; constrain ellipses to circles; constrain polygons and stars to zero rotation

Change outer radius of star

Set marker at current time (works during preview and audio-only preview)

Set marker at current time and open marker dialog box

Set and number a composition marker (0-9) at the current time

Go to composition marker 7

Display the duration between two layer markers or keyframes in the Info panel

Remove marker

Move feature region, search region, and attach point 1 pixel up at current magnification

Move feature region, search region, and attach point 10 pixels down at current magnification

Move feature region and search region 1 pixel right at current magnification

Move feature region and search region 10 pixels left at current magnification

Save project

Increment and save project

Save As

Add active composition or selected items to render queue

Add current frame to render queue

Duplicate render item with same output filename as original

Add a composition to the Adobe Media Encoder encoding queue