Keyboard shortcut I can’t seem to find: Switch from layer to composition window on a Mac

[Walter Soyka]

[Mark Likosky] “I can’t seem to find a keyboard shortcut to switch from the layer window to the basic Composition window. I’m sure it’s something simple I must be missing but wondered if anyone knows it”

If by “layer window” you mean the timeline, you can use the backslash key to toggle between the timeline and the composition viewer.

If by “layer window” you mean the “Layer viewer” panel, you can use Shift-Alt-Period or Shift-Alt-Comma to cycle among viewer tabs in the same pane.

Walter Soyka
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[Todd Kopriva]

All of the shortcuts are here.

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