trim comp layer in and out (keyboard shortcut) “”mac””

[Kevin Camp]

those keyboard shortcuts work for me… the brackets set the in\outpoint to the current time position; opt+brackets trim the selected layers’ in/outpoints to the current time position.

if you wanted to change the workarea of the comp (which is kind of like the comp’s in/outpoints), you can do that by typing ‘b’ for ‘inpoint’ or ‘n’ for the outpoint — i suppose it’s really ‘b’ for beginning of workarea and ‘n’ for end of workarea.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Rui Pedro sousa]

so to do that it should be (op+8) for in and (op+9) foor out… i don’t if there is any difference in Apple keyboards but mine (for example in pages) only does the [ or ] if i press alt+8 or alt+9

[Kevin Camp]

the only real difference in mac/pc keyboards is the mac has command and options keys, while the pc has alt and ctrl keys…

and of course they are transposed… the mac’s command key works as the ps’c ctrl key, but it is in the position of the alt key. same for the option and alt keys, they are the same, but in different locations on the keyboard.

i use both platforms daily, and the hardest thing to do is retrain my pinky fingers to hit the right keys.

other than that the keyboard shortcuts are the same in after effects.

option+[ (mac) and alt+[ (pc) both trim the selected layer’s inpoint to current time; option+] and alt+] trim the selected layer’s outpoint to current time.

however, this is for the us/english version of ae, other languages may be different.

here’s the link to all the us/english ae shortcuts, if that helps at all:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a9d3c597-7987a.html#WS3391C8C2-3332-41c0-9A3A-A8A864E43E84

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Jesper Jee]

Hi!

I see that this thread is really old but I found it because I searched for the exact same problem as Rui. I can´t trim the layers with alt+[ and I have tried almost everything. The beginning and end keys on my iMac are the fn key plus page left / right . Still nothing. There has to be some solution out there…

Best regards / Jesper

[Steff Baader]

I had the same problem but I fixed it,… but it’s only a work around.

– Go into /Users/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/10.0/
– open “Adobe After Effects 10.0 Shortcuts” with textedit
– (perhaps you backup the file)
– then you can change “TimeTrimIn” and “TimeTrimOut” to whatever you want. I changed it to “(Option+8)” and “(Option+9)”

I think the reason why I had this problem caused on some problems between my english version of AE and my german keyboard.

[Jesper Jee]

Thanks for the help! I tried to find my way with the “map” you suggested but in my After Effects map I only find licenses in every language and nothing more. I have looked around and I did find something that looked liked it was named 10.0 in another map but could´t find any shortcuts settings. What I did was to set my keyboard do British my way to solve the problem. For the most part…;) Thanks again!

[Alessio Libralon]

Thanks man!
changing the shortcut preferences solved the problem for me.

[Claude Rozsa]

[Kevin Camp] “the only real difference in mac/pc keyboards is the mac has command and options keys, while the pc has alt and ctrl keys… “

Kevin beware that on pc keyboard to get the [ or ] the Alt key you must choose is the “Alt Gr” key on the right side of the space bar. the other would not work to get those special characters which are all situated on the right side of the keys and refer to minuscule on the digits line of the board.