changing shortcut for camera view?

[Jan Sherlink]

You can edit you shortcut preferences;

they are located in:
User/Library/Preferences/Adobe/AfterEffects/8.0/
and called
Adobe After Effects 8.0 Shortcuts.txt

make a backup of the file and change the settings you want;

“SwitchTo3DViewFirst” = “(F10)”
“SwitchTo3DViewB” = “(F11)”
“SwitchTo3DViewC” = “(F12)”

cya,

Jan

[Rob Pilichowski]

is there not an easier way to do this directly through AE?
i’m still not getting the results i’m looking for. I just want to assign shortcuts
to Active Camera, left and top views….any suggestions?
i got F1 to do a top view, F2 does a custom view (which i don’t want) and F3 has
no effect on the camera at all, even though i switched it in the shortcut preferences…

[Jan Sherlink]

The Key-bindings only can be set in the txt-file,
I’ve heard they’ll change it in CS17 😉

AE only allows 3 camera shortcuts to 3 keys

Don’t forget to use the ‘ Assign Shortcut to “X camera” ‘
So if you’re in Front view and use the “Assign to”, the camera will be mapped to the selected function key.

cya,

Jan

[Rob Pilichowski]

ok, i got F1 and F2 keys to be active and top camera views.
i’m trying to assign F3 to be my left camera but its not happening, any thoughts?

[Jan Sherlink]

Make sure there’s no other binding to F3

in my txt file I can find : “ToggleEffectControls” = “(Ctrl+Shift+T)(F3)”
so you’ll need to delete the F3 there

cya,

Jan

[Rob Pilichowski]

great, it worked. thanks so much!

r

[Jan Sherlink]

When you look for something…
the first thing you’ll find is something else …

made me think about this topic,

there seems to be a script to bind shortcuts inside CS3 !

check it out:
https://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=969

cya,

Jan