From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with After Effects
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Keyboard shortcuts
From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with After Effects
Keyboard shortcuts
- [Instructor] In this exercise, I want to introduce you to some of the more useful keyboard shortcuts, designed to make your workflow less complicated. To get yourself started, open the Keyboard.AEP file found in your chapter download. Though there is a preview panel right here, you really don't need to have it open. To preview a project, just press the Space bar, which I'm going to do, and you can see it plays and if I want to stop it, I just press the Space bar and if I want to restart, press it again. We also spend a lot of time, yanking the playhead along the timeline to get to specific frames, here's an easier way. To go to the start of the timeline, press your Home key, to go to the end of a timeline, well, press your End key. I got to pull the playhead back to frame 20 here, and if you want to move backward or forward along the timeline, in one frame increments, hold down your Command, or Control key if you're on a PC, and press your right Arrow key, and you notice I'm moving…
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