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Participant
November 21, 2025

Shift + arrow keys to nudge footage is inconsistent

  • November 21, 2025
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Problem: Shift + arrow keys to nudge footage is inconsistent in values depending on zoom. Zoomed in moves a fraction, whilst zoomed out moves 10px

Steps to reproduce:

I was in a comp scaled 1080x1350.

Inside the comp i have a pre-comp with continous rasterization scaled at 70%. the scaled comp has a resolution of 1920x1080.

If i am zoomed in quite a bit like 400% it moves the composition layer by a fraction

If i am zoomed in at 50% it moves the comp layer 10px. making nudging with shift + arrow keys inconsistent.

there's no further documentation stating that this is the intended way making this a potential bug

After Effects 25.5.0

mac os 26.0.1 (25A362)

Apple M2 Max



1 reply

Participant
November 21, 2025

On further testing, it seems to apply to anything. 

For instance if i want to move a text layer really far. i can zoom out to like 10% and just send it vertically like 300px by pressing shift + arrow key