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keyboard shortcuts different with macbooks?
Hey, this is only a minor problem but it is becoming more irritating with time. I’ve used After Effects on a standard iMac and it has handy keyboard shortcuts like 0 on the numpad to RAM preview etc. But because I work on a macbook mostly these days, some of these shortcuts obviously don’t exist as the keys layout is different.
What I’d like to know is why I can’t just listen to the audio by tapping the period key when I could on a normal iMac? Macbooks still have a period key?! When I push period all it does is zooms in on my comp. Do Macbooks have a different shortcut to preview/listen to just the audio without having to RAM preview?
Appreciate any insight. Thanks in advance, Eugene
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The “period” key on the numeric keypad is a different key than the “period” key on the main keyboard. In fact, the one on the numeric keypad is more properly called the “decimal point” key. If you look at a laptop keyboard that still has the numeric keypad overlaid onto the main keyboard, you’ll see that both symbols (which are visually identical) are represented, side by side.
The MacBook Pro has no numeric keypad. None. Which means that you don’t have the decimal key.
If I had a MacBook Pro and an iPhone, I’d get that iPhone app that makes the iPhone into a numeric keypad. I’d also consider remapping a different key to this command using KeyEd Up.
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Hmm, it seems that his is for CS4, and I have CS3. Any ideas as to how I can change my keyboard shortcuts to do this in AE CS3?
Eugene
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Oh nevermind, got it! Of course there’s one for CS3….man I’m an idiot. Anyways, thanks! Most of the keys from my limited selection of keys have been taken up by some other function but turns out that the TAB wasn’t being used, surprisingly. Well, it’s working now. This makes syncing sound so much easier.
Cheers! Eugene
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Press fn then the period key for the decimal point. fn and m should work for the ram preview.
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Incase anyone else is searching for a solution, I think I found one. I am knew to the production suite software so it may not work or may depend on your project, but I am going to try adding markers to my song in Soundbooth, and then put it back into Ae and hope those markers turn into layer markers.
In Sb, somehow I found a menu that gave keyboard shortcuts for both numeric keypads and non-numeric. For this specific task (adding markers) it’s “m”, or “shift+8”. Hopefully this works!
Just saying since cueing motion to audio is pretty important and all the keystrokes suggested just made my RAM preview stop playing in Ae, my keys are pretty preoccupied already, I don’t think I have KeyUp, I don’t have an iPhone, and I already carry plenty so I don’t want to add an external keyboard to the mix.
I hope this works!
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