Changing Shortcuts with After Effects

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial

Aharon Rabinowitz
New York, USA

©2008 Aharon Rabinowitz and Creativecow.net. All rights reserved.

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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to be an AE road warrior by changing the keyboard shortcuts to account for missing keys on a laptop - such as the Ram Preview key or the Audio Preview key.

This tutorial is also available as a podcast. Click here to find it and many other AE podcasts.

And be sure to check out the new Cow Master Series DVD,
After Effects: The Next Level, vol, 2: CS 3 Tips and Techniques
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Over 6.5 hours of training to take your work to the next level!

NEW!! Aharon Rabinowitz knows how to make cool effects with After Effects. As the Creative Director of All Bets Are Off Productions in New York City, he also knows what you need to know to make the most of this very powerful program, to help you get the job done. Whether you're a working professional, or hope to become one, these 45 tutorials are for you.

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Comments

Customizing Preview Shortcut for CS4 After Effects
by Masahiro Sugano

Aharon, you the man. It worked like a pumpkin pie.

I have CS4 Production Bundle with Mac OSX 10.6.2 on brand new Macbook Pro I bought in late 2009. I even bought this wireless keypad just to have that "0" keypad. But it was a pain in the butt because Mac required it to have Number Lock on and this "Number Lock" key on this accessory numerical pad worked also as "delete" key. So you can imagine the headache.

Anyway, by following your instruction I changed the shortcut key for RAM preview to (Shift+Z) and it worked clean and swanky. I actually wanted to make it (Shift+Forwardslash) to keep it on my right hand side, but it wasn't working. Maybe "Forwardslash" was not the right way to identify the "/?" key?

Thanks anyway. This video made me want to by your DVDs.

Peace,
Masahiro from Chicago

Changing Shortcuts with After Effects
by dean harris

what about MAC?

I couldn't find it on the MAC.

Thanks

Changing Shortcuts with After Effects
by Paul Bertham

Hi Aaron,

there

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