• Adobe After Effects

  Keyframe for active property keyboard shortcut?

  Posted by Travis Mouffe on May 31, 2018 at 3:03 pm

  Hey All!

  Does anyone know of a way to use a keyboard shortcut to drop a keyframe for whichever property(ies) are active on a layer?

  I understand I can drop a ‘Scale’ keyframe by using “alt+s” – but that doesn’t seem to work for ‘Time-Remapping’ (“rr” opens the ‘Time-Remapping’ property, but “alt+rr” drops a ‘Rotation’ keyframe).

  What I am really hoping to achieve is that I can open ‘Scale,’ ‘Position,’ ‘Opacity,’ and/or ‘Time-Remapping’ properties on a layer, and then drop keyframes at the playhead for all the open properties using a single keyboard stroke.

  Thanks!

  -Travis

  Travis Mouffe replied 7 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Travis Mouffe

  May 31, 2018 at 6:47 pm

  Thanks for the quick reply, Dave!

  What I am hoping to do is be able to place a keyframe for a particular property (or multiple) on a layer using a keyboard hotkey.

  For example, if I have ‘Time-Remapping’ open (“rr”), and I move to the beginning of the layer (“i”), how can I put a ‘Time-Remapping’ keyframe at that point using only the keyboard?

  I often find myself moving to the beginning or end of a layer, opening its ‘Scale’ and ‘Opacity’ properties, and wanting to place a keyframe for both using a single keyboard shortcut – a “place-keyframe(s)-at-playhead-for-all-open-properties” shortcut.

  I understand I can place a shortcut for one property at a time, like ‘Scale,’ using “alt+s” – but that doesn’t seem to work for “Time-Remapping”.

  Thoughts?

  Thanks!
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  Roei Tzoref

  June 1, 2018 at 2:06 pm

  Travis, since CC2018 you have a shortcut editor and you can add a shortcut to add a keyframe to selected properties (visible is not enough):
  

  mine is Shift+K

  if the property is selected, it will add a keyframe add that point it time. that is the same as hitting the diamond switch:
  

  or Animation->Add Keyframe

  Roei Tzoref
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  Travis Mouffe

  June 1, 2018 at 4:04 pm

  Awesome, thanks!

  I have not yet spent much time customizing hotkeys in After Effects (defaults have been more than sufficient), but was hopeful such a method was possible for this particular inconvenience.

  Thanks again!

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