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Inspiring
July 3, 2020
Question

How to trim in German keyboard?

  • July 3, 2020
  • 4 replies
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Hi.

I'm using Macbook Pro 2012 Middle model and it has German keyboard.

My laungage setting is English,Japanese and German.

 

I want to trim the video files with "option+[ " but which keys should I type in German keyboard?

I tried a lot but still cannot find.

 

Thanks.

Hosh

 

4 replies

Inspiring
October 9, 2022

For me pressing simply Ä or Ö works fine.
After Effects 22.6 German and German keyboard.

Participant
May 7, 2022

I know I'm quite late, but I thought I'd help out some confused people in the future. Trimming works just like other keybinds, so changing them is easy.

 

Navigate to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and search for "Trim Layer". You should see two commands; Trim Layer In Point to Current Time and Trim Layer Out Point to Current Time.

 

Click on the Alt + [ and Alt + ] buttons (make sure there's a blue outline on the button), and press your desired keys, which in my case were Alt+8 and Alt+9.

 

Hope this helps 🙂

 

Participant
July 19, 2023

You are my Hero and i love you 😄

creativboxvienna
Participant
December 1, 2021

The keyboard shortcut on a German keyboard to trim from or to the current playhead position is alt + Ö and alt + Ä

fruitdood
Participant
February 23, 2022

this also does not work for me. how can it be that there is no answer to that in all of my google searches ? do german people don't use after effects or what ?

Participating Frequently
July 10, 2020

Well if you can't find the [ and ] buttons on your keyboard, use instead the "Split layer" function on after effects by using the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+D (which will split your layer where your playhead is) and then you can delete the portion of the layer that you don't want. 🙂