01 Feb 2010, Posted by David Torcivia in Articles,Filmmaking, 1 Comments

AE Keyboard Shortcuts

By now, I hope it has become apparent to you that the only way to gain complete efficiency with a program is to make heavy use of the often endless amounts of keyboard shortcuts. For After Effects users, these are often inane commands which require the skill of a concert pianist to execute and the intellectual capabilities of rainman to recall.

Fortunately, for the keyboard jockeys of the digital media world, there is a kind battalion of knowledge seekers who have persevered to preserve and collect this information into handy charts and programs so that the rest of us are not forced to waste our time pouring over help files or digging through manuals.

The ultimate result? Faster workflows which mean render times comes sooner which means it’s time for a break.

So here it is, the summit of the mount of verbose vomit before this: the links, the resources, the repositories, and the cheat sheet -

The Official Adobe After Effects CS4 Shortcut Page

The Officially Awesome Adobe Products Adobe Air Shortcut App

Denis Klepcha’s AE CS4 Cheat Sheet (dual monitors anyone?)