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