Quick and Handy After Effects Shortcuts

After Effects is a fantastic program that I use relatively often whether it be for UX Prototyping, creating Videos Ads or even gifs for eDM’s. I often don’t have a lot of time to spend on a project so shortcut keys are suuuuper helpful.

Here I have collected (and will add to) my most used and handy-but sometimes-unknown After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts that help speed up my day-today processes and might just help you.

Transform

T: Show only Opacity settings in a layer
S: Show only Scale settings in a layer
P: Show only Position settings in a layer
U: Show all settings that have a key frame set
CMD+OPT+SHIFT: Center Anchor Point of layer (this is really, really handy)

Timeline

B: Begin RAM Preview from this point
N: End RAM Preview at this point
CMD + SHIFT + D: Splits layer into two layers at current time
OPT + Either P (Position), T(Opacity), S(Scale): Creates keyframe of chosen type at current time.

Easing

These are just to get the ball rolling but I will add more as I come across them. I won’t create a have a massive list of shortcuts here as there are already enough sites doing that, but I will add any I find really handy.

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