⌨️ 85 After Effects shortcuts known, jobs are definitely sensitive.

Have you ever done any animation? It's not done at all because you're searching for buttons in panel? After Effects, there are a lot of key shortcuts, especially unfolding properties of layers, including 85 characters (based on Windows, Mac, changing Ctrl to Cmd, Alt to Option).

Tool (♣)

1.V - Selection

2.H - Hand

3.Z - Zoom

4.W - Rotation

5.C - Camera

6.P (Hold On) - Pen (G)

7.G - Pen Tool

8.Y - Pan Behind (Anchor Point)

9.Q - Shape / Mask Tool

10.Ctrl + T - Type Tool

11.B - Brush (in Layer panel)

12.Ctrl + B - Roto Brush

Open Property Layer (Crucial Helper!)

13.A - Anchor Point

14.P - Position

15.S - Scale

16.R - Rotation

17.T - Opacity

18.U - Show every keyframe of the layer

19.UU - Show property solved

20.E - Effects

21.EE - Expressions

22. Press Shift + property - Show multiple properties simultaneously.

23.M - Mask Path

24. MM - All Mask

25.F - Mask Feather

26.L - Audio Levels

27.LL - Audio Waveform

Keyframe & Taming

28. Press Stopwatch / Alt + Shift + property - add keyframe

29. F9 - Easy Ease

30.Shift + F9 - Easy Ease In

31.Ctrl + Shift + F9 - Easy Ease Out

32.J - Go to the previous keyframe.

33.K - Go to the next keyframe.

34. Home - To Tymline Tree

35. End - to the end.

36. Page Up / Down - Move by Frame

37. Alt + Left / Right Arrow - Scroll keyframe by frame

38. [- Arrange the layer starting point at the read head.

39.] - Arrange the end.

40. Alt + [- Decapitated Layer

41.Alt +] - Cut End Layer

Composition & Layers

42.Ctrl + N - New Composition

43.Ctrl + K - Composition Settings

44.Ctrl + Y - New Solid

45. Ctrl + Alt + Y - Adjustment Layer

460.Ctrl + Alt + Shift + T - Text Layer

47.Ctrl + Shift + C - Pre-compose

48.Ctrl + D - Repeat Layer

49. Enter - rename the layer.

50.Ctrl + Shift + D - Split layer straight playhead

51.Ctrl + Up / Down - Scroll Layer Sequence

52.Ctrl + Shift +] - Up Top

53. Ctrl + Shift + [- Bottom Down

54.Ctrl + L - Log Layer

55. Ctrl + Shift + V - Paste Straight playhead

View and Preview

56.Spacebar - Play / RAM Preview

57.0 (Numpad) - RAM Preview

58.Shift + 0 - Preview Resolution

59.. (Numpad) - Mute audio preview

60.Ctrl +\ - Fit comp to fit screen

61. Shift + / - Fit to view

62.. - Zoom in.

63., - Zoom out.

64.Ctrl +; - Title / Action Safe

65. '- Extended panel full screen

Workspace / Tymline

66.; - Toggle zoom tymline

67. Shift + drag playhead - snap to keyframe / marker

68. * (Numpad) - Add a marker on the layer.

69. press * while preview - marker by tempo

70.B - Set the Work Area Start Point

71.N - Set the End Work Area

72.Shift + Home / End - Move Work Area

Manage files and renders

73.Ctrl + I - Import

74.Ctrl + S - Record

75.Ctrl + Shift + S - Save As

76.Ctrl + M - Add to Render Queue

77.Ctrl + Alt + M - Send Media Encoder

78.Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Shift + Z - Undo / Redo

79. Ctrl + F - Search (Effects / Project)

80.Ctrl + / - Add footage to comp

Others

81.Ctrl + Shift + H - alternating layer control

82.Ctrl + Alt + / - Purge memory

83.F3 - Open Effect Controls

84.Ctrl + Shift + A - Deselected All

85.Ctrl + A - Select All

The life-changing ones are A / P / S / R / T and U - remember these five, you can see the keyframe in the blink of an eye, you no longer have to spread the timeline to the placenta. 🎬