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Chadman
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October 16, 2017
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Add to Adobe Media Encoder shortcut "Ctrl+Alt+M NOT WORKING!!!

  • October 16, 2017
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Hi l am running AE 2017.2 and AME 2017.1.2 on a PC and for some reason the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+M to start up AME and add a composition to AME render queue has stop working.

The weird thing is that the command from "Composition" drop down menu in AE works but just not the shortcut. It does not make any difference if AME is already running, and l have uninstalled and reinstalled both AE and AME with no success in fixing the problem.

I have never altered the Adobe After Effects 14.2 Win en_US Shortcuts.txt  file so l am not sure what other options there are to look into fixing this issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

      Correct answer Dyllan Daker

      FOUND THE PROBLEM!

      Go to NVIDIA GEFORCE APP, FIND THE LITTLE COG, DISABLE IN GAME OVERLAY. (BASICALLY, CTRL+ALT+M IS USED BY NVIDIA GAME OVERLAY MODE)

      12 replies

      neilwhitman
      neilwhitman
      New Participant
      January 5, 2021

      Perfect - thank you so much!

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      vobrazovka
      Known Participant
      November 26, 2020

      Found another offender..
      It is Skype app. You need to uncheck hotkeys across the whole system. The same issue.. It is working again, when I switch this to off..

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      BO_Editor
      New Participant
      November 26, 2019

      This work for me! Thank you very much!!!

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      andy.nick
      Participating Frequently
      July 11, 2019

      THANK YOU!!!!!!

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      Dyllan DakerCorrect answer
      New Participant
      February 22, 2019

      FOUND THE PROBLEM!

      Go to NVIDIA GEFORCE APP, FIND THE LITTLE COG, DISABLE IN GAME OVERLAY. (BASICALLY, CTRL+ALT+M IS USED BY NVIDIA GAME OVERLAY MODE)

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        tsymyn
        New Participant
        January 25, 2021

        That was it for me, too, nearly two years later. I changed the microphone toggle hotkey to CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-M, rather than turning overlay off. Thanks!

          S.Tyrone_Perry
          S.Tyrone_Perry
          Inspiring
          February 18, 2019

          Updated to CC 2019... I've had this issue since CC 2017... This is ridiculous.

          Manual drop down menu... works fine. Shortcut. Still broken.

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          jeroenr13836525
          Known Participant
          August 1, 2018

          I just did a fresh install of windows 10 pro, creative cloud app and through that installed an up to date version of both AE18 and MediaEncoder 18. The shortcut ctrl+alt+m is listed in the shortcut menu as adding the comp to media encoder render queue, but helas, nothing happens when pressed.

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          jeroenr13836525
          Known Participant
          August 2, 2018

          ps. Even a fresh install of AE and ME didnt work. The shortcut is still unresponsive. My exit workflow is taking quite a hit in efficiency because of this bug.

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          jeroenr13836525
          Known Participant
          August 2, 2018

          pps. Adding shift to the shortcut as a custom shortcut makes it work again, but isnt 100% ideal as the shortcut is now different between computers. Its just silly...

          Smurfs
          Smurfs
          Known Participant
          April 10, 2018

          im having this exact issue, after i reinstalled windows 10 my ctrl alt M stopped working on my AE, using the last update right now
          What i did to circunvent the issue was adding SHIFT, so its like this now, CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+M

          S.Tyrone_Perry
          S.Tyrone_Perry
          Inspiring
          March 2, 2018

          CC 2018 (PC) still have the same issue. Annoying for sure.
          I also have remnants of CC 2017 on the pc, so maybe timothyk... is right, is it trying to launch AME 2017?

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          ChadmanAuthor
          Inspiring
          March 2, 2018

          What l can say is that after having to do a re install of windows 10 and all my adobe software only just one week ago and the shortcut NOW works!.....So it seems to be very possible that Adobe's own update process is the course of the issue.

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          Timothy Kreider
          New Participant
          February 2, 2018

          I have the same problem. I believe it started when I updated to 2017 also. I was hoping that updating AE and ME to 2018 would fix the shortcut, but it didn't. The only thing I can add is I still have traces of After Effects 2015.3, 2015, 2014 and CC in my program files folder, so I imagine legacy registry, ini or whatever files still exist in other places. Perhaps the shortcut is still looking for AE 2015. I dunno.

          The drop-down menu still works, so it's just an annoyance. I'll eventually fresh install my PC and I'm sure that'll fix it. Ha.

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