• Adobe After Effects

  Can i assign a new shortcut in CS3?

  Posted by Dotan Stern on April 8, 2009 at 8:25 am

  Is there a shortcut to show and hide the mask in CS3?
  i know there is a way to change the shortcut to something that is already have a shortcut in AE
  but what about if there is no shortcut?
  thanx

  Dotan Stern replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Peter O’connell

  April 8, 2009 at 3:45 pm

  Hi you can hide all the onscreen controls with the shortcut shift+option+h. If you really need a shortcut to only show or hide one particular mask in AE you could turn on Hide Locked Masks in Layer>Mask, then make a jsx script like this:
  app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Locked"));
  (this is a very basic version of a possible script)

  Save the script to your scripts folder and assign a keyboard shortcut to it by modifying the “Adobe After Effects 9.0 Shortcuts”. Change one of the lines that looks like this:
  “ExecuteScriptMenuItem02” = “()”

  Into this:
  “ExecuteScriptMenuItem02” = “(your shortcut here)”

  In this example the script would be the topmost script in the scripts pulldown menu.

  You might also need a script to unlock all masks since the code above won’t toggle.
  app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Unlock All Masks"));
  You could then assign this script (make it the 2nd in the list) to another shortcut:
  “ExecuteScriptMenuItem03” = “(your shortcut here)”

  Make sure there aren’t any shortcut conflicts in the Shortcuts file.

  Pete

  roguekeyframe.com
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  Dotan Stern

  April 9, 2009 at 7:00 am

  Thanx for the post pete but its easyer for me just to click the show/hide mask button then to run a script
  i asked if i can assign a shortcut to this button that already work on AE
  is it possible?
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  Dotan Stern

  April 9, 2009 at 7:01 am

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