Adobe After Effects CC

Cheat Sheet

After Effects CC Tools Panel Overview

Selection
Tool (V)

Camera
Tools (C)
Zoom
Tool (Z)

Shape Layer /
Masking Tools (Q)

Pan Behind
Tool (Y)

Roto Brush /
Refine Edge Tools
(Option/Alt + W)
Options for currently
selected tool

Clone Stamp Tool

(Cmd/Ctrl + B)

Pen
Tools (G)

Rotation
Tool (W)
Hand
Tool (H)

Text Tool
(Cmd/Ctrl + T)

Eraser Tool
(Cmd/Ctrl + B)

Brush Tool
(Cmd/Ctrl + B)

Puppet Tools
(Cmd/Ctrl + P)

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Cheat Sheet

Common After Effects CC Keyboard Shortcuts

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FUNCTION MAC OS WINDOWS

Selection Tool

Hand Tool

Zoom Tool

Rotation Tool

Camera Tools

Pan Behind (Anchor Point) Tool

Shape Layer / Masking Tools

Pen Tools

Text Tool

Command + T

Ctrl + T

Toggles between the Brush,

Clone Stamp and Eraser Tools

Command + B

Ctrl + B

Roto Brush and Refine Edge Tools

Option + W

Alt + W

Ram Preview

0 (Zero)

0 (Zero)

Show only the Opacity property

of the selected layer(s)

Show only the Position property

of the selected layer(s)

Show only the Scale property

of the selected layer(s)

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Adobe After Effects CC

Cheat Sheet

Common After Effects CC Keyboard Shortcuts

FUNCTION MAC OS WINDOWS
Show only the Rotation property of
the selected layer(s)

Show only Mask Path properties

of the selected layer(s)

Show only the keyframed properties

of the selected layer(s)

Show only modified properties

of the selected layer(s)

UU

UU

Add or remove the property

from shown properties

Shift +
property shortcut

Shift +
property shortcut

Nudge selected layer(s) one pixel

Arrow key

Arrow key

Nudge selected layer(s) 10 pixels

Shift + Arrow Key

Shift + Arrow Key

Move the current time indicator

to the beginning of the timeline

Home

Home

Move the current time indicator

to the end of the timeline

End

End

Create new composition

Command + N

Ctrl + N

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