Select all

Deselect all

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

Open selected layer, composition, or footage item

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

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

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

Quit

Undo

Redo

Purge All Memory

Interrupt running a script

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

New project

Open project

Open most recent project

New folder in Project panel

Open Project Settings dialog box

Find in Project panel

(click bit-depth button at bottom of Project panel) Cycle through color bit depths for project

(click bit-depth button at bottom of Project panel) Open Project Settings dialog box

Open Preferences dialog box

(hold down while starting After Effects) 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 previous or next item in active viewer (for example, cycle through open compositions)

Cycle to previous or next panel in active frame (for example, cycle through open Timeline panels)

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

(alt-click tool button in Tools panel) Cycle through tools

Activate Selection tool

Activate Hand tool

Temporarily activate Hand tool

Activate Zoom In tool

(when Zoom In tool is active) Activate Zoom Out tool

Activate Rotation tool

Activate Roto Brush tool

Activate Refine Edge tool

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

Activate Pan Behind tool

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 (Add Vertex tool when pointer is over a segment; Convert Vertex tool when pointer is over a vertex)

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

Activate and cycle through Puppet tools

(in shape layer) Temporarily convert Selection tool to Shape Duplication tool

(in shape layer) Temporarily convert Selection tool to Direct Selection tool

New composition

Open Composition Settings dialog box for selected composition

or N:  Set beginning or 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 previous visible item in time ruler (keyframe, layer marker, work area beginning or end)

Go to next visible item in time ruler (keyframe, layer marker, work area beginning or end)

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 preview

(click Reset in Preview panel) Reset preview settings to replicate RAM Preview and Standard Preview behaviors

Preview only audio, from current time

Preview only audio, in work area

Manually preview (scrub) video

(drag current-time indicator) 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 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 active view

Show red, green, blue, or alpha channel as grayscale

Show colorized red, green, or blue channel

Toggle showing straight RGB color

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

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

Show Refine Edge X-ray

(double-click Hand tool) 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 Composition, Layer, or Footage panel

Zoom to fit in Composition, Layer, or Footage panel

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

Set resolution to Full, Half, or Custom in Composition panel

Open View Options dialog box for active Composition panel

Zoom in time

Zoom out time

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

Zoom out in Timeline panel to show the entire composition duration (Press again to zoom back in to 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 grid

Show or hide 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

(double-click the footage item in the Project panel) 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

(drag footage item from Project panel onto selected layer) 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

New solid layer

New null layer

New adjustment layer

Select layer (1-999) by its number (enter digits rapidly for two-digit and three-digit numbers)

Toggle selection of layer (1-999) by its number (enter digits rapidly for two-digit and three-digit numbers)

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)

(click solo switch) 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

(double-click a layer) Open layer in Layer panel (opens source composition for precomposition layer in Composition panel)

(double-click a layer) 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 or Out point is at the current time

Trim In point or Out point of selected layers to current time

(click stopwatch) Add or remove expression for a property

(double-click effect selection in Effects & Presets panel) 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

Set Quality to Best, Draft, or Wireframe for selected layers

Cycle forward or backward through blending modes for selected layers

Find in Timeline panel

Toggle expansion of selected layers to show all properties

(click triangle to the left of the property group name) 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

(click property or group name) Hide property or group

(click property or group shortcut) Add or remove property or group from set that is shown

(hit the property shortcut key) Add or remove keyframe at current time

Toggle expansion of selected effects to show all properties

(click triangle to the left of the property group name) Toggle expansion of property group and all child property groups to show all properties

(drag property value) Modify property value by default increments

(drag property value) Modify property value by 10x default increments

(drag property value) 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