Next / Previous Keyframe Keyboard Shortcut ????

[Guest]

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 · Accepted solution]

See "Time navigation (keyboard shortcuts)".

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

[Rick Gerard]

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.

[egag21jeff]

Todd_Kopriva your answer was not helpful. The help system is garbage. I found the correct answer on this page: Setting, selecting, and deleting keyframes in After Effects, but it is buried so far in you would never know that was the answer you needed unless you knew the answer in the first place.

Thank you, Rick Gerard​!

[P.M.B]

Adobe's help system is garbage indeed.  For company with so many applications to have a unified help system is, for lack of a better word, stupid.  And it doesn't help that such a stupid idea is so clumsily executed.

There are reference guides though which Adobe apparently doesn't want people using.

here is the After Effects reference guide https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/after_effects_reference.pdf

It's a bookmarked, hyperlinked, easily searchable PDF document.

As for keyboard shortcuts you can also always open the keyboard shortcut editor and search there.

[VANDAINC]

I use Adobe Help like I use Microsoft Help --- which is; I do not. I do not remember having a problem that the built in Microsoft help system ever helped with. And the Adobe sends you to a web page when it could have been useful using context within the app. And then it takes you to adobe pages, which are not really a good source for "how to" or workarounds.

[Space_Jockey]

Command + right/left arrow on Mac.

For Windows change the Command with Control I suppose.

[Roei Tzoref]

Command + right/left arrow on Mac.

these are for next frame, not next keyframe

[Chidi5CD0]

This helped me. Its for next and previous frame. Thanks anyways

[Rembot2000]

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

   

[Diko.bg]

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.

[mf0987]

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[weegreenblobbie]

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.

[weegreenblobbie]

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!

[demetriz79376234]

I am having the same problem. I want to be selected in the Program window and go back and forth between keyframes but I can't unless I'm selected in the Effect Controls panel

[elvisf64915702]

I encountered the same problem, the shortcuts are panel based as opposed to it being global, at least that's what I think. I mean it activates on the panel being selected. The most basic shortcut in my opinion is this (being able to jump prev or next on keyframes) while being maximized in the program control. I needed it to make micro adjustments in the masking up close on the video, while only keeping it to a few keyframes. 

Sadly this doesn't work.

[VANDAINC]

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".