Why with shortcut O not at the end of the last frame…

[Ben Insler]

It’s doing this because it’s jumping the playhead to display the last frame, or rather if it were to jump to the end of the layer then nothing would be displayed, so ‘O’ goes to the last frame, not to the ouu point. I feel the same way you do about it, but don’t know if there’s a way to change it.

-Ben

[Uwe Lansing]

Ok, thank you for your answer…

[Uwe Lansing]

Yes Ok, but often the last frame of a layer is not the last frame of a clip…

[Accountneedsrealnameupdate]

I could be that the clip/nested layer has a different framerate than the current comp, when moving within a comp you can usually only move at intervals of the comps framerate, the playhead snaps to the start of the nearest frame, so it’s often possible that you are not seeing the last frame of the layer. It can lead to surprizes when you do a field render when fields appear that you cannot see when in the comp (double the comps framerate in this case).
Maybe you’re talking about something else completely,
Glenn Stewart
1k Studios

[Naveen Mallikarjuna]

Makes sense, which is why they did it, but it’d be nice if there was a standard shortcut to get to the actual end of the layer, perhaps Shift+O if it’s not already taken.

From what I know, you can’t customize shortcuts in AE the way you can in PS, but perhaps that’s coming in AE 7, when it eventually arrives.

[Rob Kahn]

Just hit “O” and then “page down”

Rob

[Accountneedsrealnameupdate]

Actually you can change shortcut keys in After Effects, just not through the interface, next to the preferences file is a keyboard shortcut file, I had to edit it because some of my shortcuts weren’t working until I switched option for cntrl (copy and paste interpretation). Unfortunately you can’t make an action and assign a key, or get full access to all the commands the way you can with photoshop or final cut pro, if it doesn’t have a shortcut already you can’t make one. You can access a lot of stuff with scripting but I’ve been kind of hoping that version 7 will have actions like photoshop so I won’t have to learn it.
Glenn Stewart
1k Studios

[Accountneedsrealnameupdate]

Actually I just remembered a command that will do what you want, Command+Option+Shift+RightArrow (or Control+Alt+Shift+RightArrow) brings you to the next in or out point regardless of what’s currently selected, however it doesn’t bring you to the last frame of the layer, it brings you to the one after, try it, I think it’s what you want.
Glenn Stewart
1k studios

PS left arrow moves the other direction naturally enough, and since it’s already got a key command you can change it to Shift+o if you want, look for the lines below in the keyboard preferences file:

[“CCompTime”]
“TimeFastForward” = “(Cmd+Option+RightArrow)(END)”
“TimeJumpToIn” = “(I)”
“TimeJumpToNextInOut” = “(Cmd+Option+Shift+RightArrow)”
“TimeJumpToOut” = “(O)”
“TimeJumpToPrevInOut” = “(Cmd+Option+Shift+LeftArrow)”

[Uwe Lansing]

Thank you for your answers + tips…

kind regards
Uwe