Adobe After Effects Windows Popular Shortcut Set

Keyboard shortcuts for Adobe After Effects on Windows. Covers layers, keyframes, masks, text, and the Timeline panel on Windows.
Key label style

General

Select all
Ctrl+A
Duplicate the selectionWorks on layers, masks, effects, text selectors, animators, puppet meshes, shapes, render items, output modules, or compositions.
Ctrl+D
Undo
Ctrl+Z
Redo
Ctrl+Shift+Z

Projects

Open project
Ctrl+O

Panels, viewers, workspaces, and windows

Open or close Effect Controls panel for selected layer
F3
or
Ctrl+Shift+T

Activate tools

Activate Selection tool
V

Compositions and the work area

New composition
Ctrl+N

Time navigation

Go forward 1 frame
Pg Dn
or
Ctrl+Right
Go backward 1 frame
Pg Up
or
Ctrl+Left

Previews

Start or stop the preview
Space
or
Num 0
or
Shift+Num 0

Footage

Import one file or image sequence
Ctrl+I

Saving, exporting, and rendering

Save project
Ctrl+S
Add active composition or selected items to render queue
Ctrl+Shift+/

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