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July 28, 2014
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How to modify keyboard shortcuts in after effects

  • July 28, 2014
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Hello,

I'm using After Effects CC 2014 on a Mac with a Swiss keyboard, and none of the shortcuts works since it thinks I'm using a crappy french keyboard.

On adobe website they say something about KeyEd but the link is broken.

Does someone have a solution?

Adobe could have done a shortcut editor in AE. For the price we pay, they could have taken the time to copy the code from other software that have this feature.

Regards

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    Mike_Abbott
    Mike_Abbott
    Legend
    November 16, 2017

    Yes. Ae CC2018 has a new shortcut editor : )

      mattb2461688
      mattb2461688
      Inspiring
      November 16, 2017

      Yeah just found on YouTube.

      Adobe up your game and update your help pages!

        Szalam
        Community Expert
        SzalamCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        November 16, 2017

        mattb2461688  wrote

        Adobe up your game and update your help pages!

        What help pages were you on that need to be updated? I can forward it to someone at Adobe to get it fixed.

        mattb2461688
        mattb2461688
        Inspiring
        November 16, 2017

        Has this been resolved by the new version?

        What an awkward and unreal way to have to do this. The help pages are of no use as it looks like they've changed this.

        Put in a feature request. Copy/paste if you want to make additional request:

        Would like to be able to edit/create custom keyboard shortcuts. This came up as I'm using the standard Apple Keyboard W/O keypad, so numeric keyboard shortcuts are unavailable. The text method is cumbersome and not clear.

        Also, I  do not see the file you refer to in the help pages.

        Dhal_Naka
        Dhal_Naka
        Inspiring
        July 14, 2017

        I can´t believe Adobe makes us change the shortcuts that way... Unbelievable... Suddenly we are in stone age again...

          Szalam
          Community Expert
          SzalamCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          July 14, 2017

          Dhal_Naka  wrote

          I can´t believe Adobe makes us change the shortcuts that way... Unbelievable... Suddenly we are in stone age again...

          Have you seen the keyboard shortcut editor in Premiere Pro? It looks wonderful. PLEASE JOIN ME in filing a feature request for After Effects to have similar functionality.

          Dhal_Naka
          Dhal_Naka
          Inspiring
          July 14, 2017

          I have already resquested Adobe to make something like photoshop too

          Todd_Kopriva
          Todd_Kopriva
          Inspiring
          July 28, 2014

          You can modify keyboard shortcuts by editing the text file that's in the preferences directory. You can open the directory with the Reveal button at the bottom of the Preferences dialog box.

          We're moving the KeyEd script to a new location. All that it does is modify the text file, so this script is not necessary.

          K
          katya_austin
          Inspiring
          August 6, 2014

          So the only way to modify AE shortcuts is to edit 'Adobe After Effects 13.0.1 Win en_US Shortcuts' text file directly?

          That's not the most user-friendly way to customize shortcuts... :-/

          thank you,

          -k

            Szalam
            Community Expert
            SzalamCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            August 6, 2014

            Zjuka wrote:

            That's not the most user-friendly way to customize shortcuts... :-/

            And if you would like to see better functionality added in this area, please file a feature request. Adobe - Feature Request Form

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