Hi guys I hope you're doing very well in this course until now.
And if you have any questions please remember to post them in the Q Only section of the course.
I'll be happy to help you and get you to move very fast in After Effects So you do the animation and
the visual effects you're looking for in this lecture.
You are going to cover the keyboard shortcuts and it's very important that you discover new shortcuts
the one you didn't know and to assign new shortcuts if you want to or if they are not working on your
keyboard for example.
Let's now bring up the shortcut keyboard and look at how we can work with it and learn even more about
shortcuts and comments.
In Windows you will go to Edit and you will find here keyboard shortcuts.
If you are on the Mac you will go to after effects you see the first one and you go to keyboard shortcuts.
I think it's the third or fourth option.
Nevertheless on the Mac please try to find that between file and good.
Let's select the option here.
Keyboard shortcuts which has a shortcut which is control alt apostrophe.
So what do we see here.
This is a replica of my keyboard.
I can assure you the comfort of my keyboard and show you.
But I have an extended keyboard with the numeric pad and actually these kids are exactly where they
are on my keyboard so it's a natural representation.
You might have something else here you might not have the numeric keypad if your keyboard doesn't have
any and maybe these ones are over here somewhere.
Nevertheless it's supposed to give you a replica of your keyboard.
Now what are we looking at.
We're looking at into the application the shortcut kids that are available or the purple ones are shortcuts
and the one that's purple and green it has a double function depending where you are using it from.
So the one that you are seeing now do not use any modifier keys as shift control or alt on the Mac it
will be command an option so the key front is assigned to help the key.
Why is assigned as a shortcut for the pan behind tool.
For example the Zed here or the z is the zoom tool.
If you press shift now you will see empurpled the shortcut that require a shift.
So actually going shift Q shift to de-select or keyframes shift 9 set keyframe 2 is it is.
And also you can look at the ones that use control and are very many here and the ones that use alt
or option on the Mac.
There are very few.
Also you can combine this.
You can use shift plus control and see in purple and green purple to have double function all the commands
that have been assigned a short.
This is simple.
You can use the three of them if you want.
So let's say here rotate it is w.
But with the shift it becomes nothing with the control it has another function with the eyes and so
on.
OK this is very complicated.
The best way to discover what is assigned to a key on your keyboard is to click on it.
Here you are.
Now this is what happened here.
Is this key w multiple comments assigned.
Well the first one is none.
Meaning you didn't use any modifier key such as a shift control or command and alt option.
It is rotate so you pick the rotation tool with control.
You do something else with alt that is alt w.
You will pick the roto brush or the defined edge tool.
With the shift there is absolutely nothing.
So you can come here and discover what are the shortcuts assigned to a key or what commands have a shortcut
on this key fight on the left side here on the command.
This is in application.
You have all the command listed.
If they have a shortcut or not you can change a shortcut or assign a new shortcut if you like you notice
that all these hard shortcuts.
But if I come to file for example the open D project doesn't have a shortcut you can assign a shortcut
to any one of them that doesn't have a shortcut and you can change the assigned shortcut.
So this is a discovery method and this is a search method if you like.
But actually this is not the way we think we want for example to center the anchor point in the middle
of its own layer.
It's not complicated we are going to use it in the next section.
So how do I discover which shortcut is to center the anchor point.
Is there any shortcut.
So the best way is to come over here and search all right center find.
So it just it for me.
All the commands where the center wards exist and that's shortcuts that's making this a bit bigger area.
So center layer in view is control home call the slide control and this is the home over here.
It is when there is nothing no modifier key applied.
I go to the start of the composition.
Now you know then with control so it's control home move insertion point the beginning of the extreme
fight with the others.
Now it's a line selected text and so on.
You notice that control alt room is over here.
Control plus alt and the key is assigned to center anchor point in the layer that may fight.
So now it makes more sense.
For example if you want to look at the paragraph you want to format your paragraphs you want to see
the shortcuts assigned to paragraph or you have to do is to search for paragraph.
Now it's listed for you all the commands word the word paragraph exist for example character and paragraph
balance it listed for you.
All these supplements you have center left are right all about paragraph and maybe more.
OK.
You either are very many here for Balaga not just here that you are looking in the character and paragraph
balance come over the application.
You can see character and paragraph banners.
Here you are.
And in it is the shortcuts here are very few because they are mostly combined with shift and control
and maybe Arlt something like this.
OK.
So you can discover all of them about paragraph within.
Over here.
Let's go back to center and I'm coming back here because of the room.
Now some keyboards go back to application or so some keyboards don't have the key within the main keyboard.
They don't even have it at all or it does other functions and there is a conflict between after effects
and the operating system.
So how do you solve the problem.
You want to use Center anchor point content but the home is not working.
So the best way is to assign a shortcut for a center and in point.
How do you do that for sure.
All you need to discover what shortcuts you can use.
For example lets stick to control an art.
I hope you guys on the mat are translating control into command and into options.
Now if you look at it here.
The purple one and purple and green are already assigned.
But there is the cube over here or for example the X is better.
It has no shortcut to any comment.
So maybe we can use control at the next.
When I click on it of course you have multiple command assigned for X and look none it does something.
It does two things in fact control.
It's a cut.
Of course you know control X or comment X but no control and art over here.
It is not assigned.
I could assign it to center point in the lay of content for that and come just next to it and click.
So I made space for a new shortcut.
And typically I'm going to type it on the keyboard I'm going to type Control alt and X. So I press control
alt and X and here you are the shortcut is set.
Fantastic Let's go back and really verify and you look you see Center anchor point here.
It has been a site.
Now this is very practical.
So if your keyboard is making problem or you have a broken key for a shortcut that you need you can
assign these shortcuts.
Why are you 100 percent safe not to mess up after effects because that is what's happened here.
Keyboard layout set is set now to custom before it was set to after effects default.
Now it has changed directly to custom.
I have one that is modified.
Now there is a new one that's custom if you like this one you can save it and just click OK here and
you'll start using the new shortcut that you have a site now.
Thank you very much for listening and I hope you'll come over to the keyboard shortcut using the shortcut
and try to assign new shortcuts discover the shortcuts that you don't know.
And if your keyboard or mentioned the shortcut that's not working with you you can just assign it if
you have any questions please ask me and I will try to help you the best possible.
Thank you.
I'll see you in the next lecture.