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Sep 18, 2011 8:00 PM UTC
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Next / Previous Keyframe Keyboard Shortcut ????

Searching for info on a keyboard shortcut for navagating between the layer keyframes .. such as position, scale, rotation, etc ..

It is way too tedious to click on the little triangle and back to editing.

Tried to search the Forums and found nothing.

No custom options either.

Todd_Kopriva
Todd_KoprivaCorrect answer
Inspiring
Sep 18, 2011 9:02 PM UTC

See "Time navigation (keyboard shortcuts)".

Rather than searchng the forum for things like that, I recommend searching the Help document.

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Participant
May 1, 2024 4:56 PM UTC

Go to your keyboard shortcuts and search for "Go to Next Keyframe" -- in my case it's the "Effects Control Panel." Alt+D for Next, and Alt+A for Previous. This is also good because you might customize, or use a template of another app.

I recommend if you need advice, use "site:reddit" in the search bar, that way you can avoid community.adobe.com that says things like "use Adobe help" because it's clear, they don't, otherwise they'd know why we search the internet. I mean, if I want to be blamed for not doing something right, or "well, that's not how it works".

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Participant
Nov 9, 2025 5:08 AM UTC

These basic features of revealing keyframes and moving between them have been available in After Effects for at least 10 years. Why aren’t they available in Premiere? Adobe, please improve!

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Participant
Sep 15, 2020 11:33 PM UTC

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weegreenblobbie
Known Participant
Jan 13, 2023 4:46 PM UTC

What's worse, the help documentation doesn't work.  I edited my keyboard short cuts for "select next keyframe" and "select previous keyframe", but using them does nothing.

 

Anyone with a working solution on how to select a clip in the timeline, and jump to keyframes?  The Effect Controls UI isn't showing a keyframe but I can see the effect in the animation and I wanted a way to directly go to it so I can edit it.

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weegreenblobbie
Known Participant
Jan 13, 2023 4:56 PM UTC

Okay the keyboard short cut only works when you select the Effects Control Panel.  Please provide this infor in the Keyboard Shortcut Editor, and tell me if the new shortcut I'm assigning is replacing an existing one.  Please fix your software Adobe!

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Diko.bg
Known Participant
Jan 25, 2019 12:09 PM UTC

The direct answer is quite better, actually.  :-) Maybe because the google search is better navigator than any help logic :-(

Please people we are not in the 90s anymore. Everything is on the internet these days.

As long as the application is not a simple one (let's say with four buttons/functions and one page help) this is the better way to find answers.

Ergo I find your answer rude mr. @Todd_Kopriva. Especially having in mind you are representing Adobe.

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Inspiring
Sep 12, 2018 9:23 PM UTC

Well I for one am glad to have found this question in the forums rather then having to dig through a help file!

   

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Space_Jockey
Participant
Mar 1, 2018 8:48 AM UTC

Command + right/left arrow on Mac.

For Windows change the Command with Control I suppose.

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Roei Tzoref
Legend
Mar 1, 2018 9:03 AM UTC
Command + right/left arrow on Mac.

these are for next frame, not next keyframe

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Todd_Kopriva
Todd_KoprivaCorrect answer
Inspiring
Sep 18, 2011 9:02 PM UTC

See "Time navigation (keyboard shortcuts)".

Rather than searchng the forum for things like that, I recommend searching the Help document.

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Community Expert
Sep 19, 2011 2:01 AM UTC

J and K keys, but the keyframes have to be visible. These keys also move to the next marker or the next in or out point for a layer. Escentially you are moving between events in the timeline, but only visible events. The rest of the shortcuts are in the links Todd posted.

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