Adobe After Effects keyboard shortcuts
Explore all 387 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys for Adobe After Effects 2025 on an interactive visual keyboard. Toggle modifiers (Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Meta), filter by category, and search any command or key combination.
Top shortcuts
- Ctrl+Alt+N — New Project
- Ctrl+O — Open Project
- Ctrl+Alt+O — Open Most Recent Project
- Ctrl+S — Save Project
- Ctrl+Shift+S — Save As
- Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S — Increment and Save
- Ctrl+I — Import File
- Ctrl+Alt+I — Import Multiple Files
- Ctrl+M — Add to Render Queue
- Ctrl+Alt+M — Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue
- Ctrl+Shift+W — Close Project
- Ctrl+Q — Quit After Effects
- Ctrl+Z — Undo
- Ctrl+Shift+Z — Redo
- Ctrl+X — Cut
- Ctrl+C — Copy
- Ctrl+V — Paste
- Delete — Clear (Delete)
- Ctrl+D — Duplicate
- Ctrl+A — Select All
- Ctrl+Shift+A — Deselect All
- Ctrl+Shift+D — Split Layer
- Enter — Rename Selected Layer / Item
- Ctrl+E — Edit Original
- Ctrl+F — Find
- Ctrl+Alt+Semicolon — Preferences
- Space — Play / Pause
- Numpad0 — RAM Preview
- Shift+Numpad0 — RAM Preview (Shift - custom settings)
- PageDown — Step Forward One Frame
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