Cntl + M not working

[Michael Szalapski]

I don’t recall Ctrl+M ever working in AE for adding things to the Render Queue. I’ve used it in Premiere all the time. I don’t think I’ve ever used it in AE. I’ve always used Ctrl+Shirt+/ as you mention.

Here’s AE’s shortcut list. It also has info on how to add or change shortcuts.

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[Brian Charles]

Don’t know the solution but I beg to differ, I’ve used Command + M (I’m on a Mac) for years, its still on the Windows version under the Composition Menu: Composition> Make Movie, which adds the active Comp to the Render Cue.

[Michael Szalapski]

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t there, I just meant I hadn’t used it.

Perhaps you’ve installed some new software or Windows has updated and some part of the new software or updated OS has taken control of the ctrl+m shortcut?

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[John Cuevas]

I haven’t installed anything and don’t believe that any update took place on Friday when it stopped working. Nothing happens when I press “cntl+m”, not in AE, Windows or seemingly any program.

Aside from deleting my prefs, I’ve opened my current project on another machine, and “cntl-m” added the composition to the render queue. So it’s not the project either. I’m completely befuddled by this.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[Michael Szalapski]

If you reboot your machine, open AE, and create a new project from scratch, does Ctrl+M work?

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[John Cuevas]

Nope, that didn’t work either. Just swapped out keyboards on the crazy chance that “cntl” works, “m” works, but they didn’t work together for some reason.

If I used the composition pulldown and hit select the Make Move, that works….just the short cut isn’t working.

Think I have to wait for my IT guy to come in and check to see if some process is running in the background that I’m not seeing that has disabled this, though I can’t imagine what that would be since nothing has changed on this computer.

If anyone has any other suggestions, I’d be glad to try them.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[Kevin Camp]

you could try to reset the keyboard shortcuts using the reset-prefs method (hold ctrl+alt+shift while starting ae), then at the prompt alt-click the ‘ok’ button to reset the keyboard shortcuts too.

if you really don’t want to lose your current prefs, you can probably find the keyboard shortcuts preference file near the ae preference file and move it to the desktop. ae should rebuild that file the next time you restart it.

on my mac the file is called “adobe after effects 9.0 shortcuts” (i’m still on cs4) if that helps.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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[John Cuevas]

Found the shortcuts file, deleted it. It rebuilt but still doesn’t work. I actually found the MakeMovie in the file, but for some reason, nada.

More and more I’m convinced some update/application is overriding “cntl+m”. Though I’m not sure why it just started happening.

Oh well, wait for the IT guy to show up for his monthly maintenance, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll reinstall the app.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[Todd Kopriva]

By the way, why are you even using Make Movie?

See this page.

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[Robert Perkins]

[Todd Kopriva] “By the way, why are you even using Make Movie?”

Perhaps because, like me, he started using AE back in the mid nineties and ctrl+m became ingrained in his work flow.

Your reply was very helpful though. (please note the sarcasm)