After Effects
Effects Macros
Pre-Compose Layers
Groups selected layers into a new nested composition, cleaning up your timeline and allowing global effects.
CtrlShiftC
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Easy Ease Keyframes
Instantly smooths out the motion of your keyframes for professional-looking animation.
F9
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Center Anchor Point
Automatically snaps the anchor point to the exact dead-center of your selected layer.
CtrlAltHome
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Fit Layer to Comp
Automatically scales and stretches any footage or image to perfectly match the dimensions of your composition.
CtrlAltF
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Show All Keyframes (The U-Key)
Instantly reveals all properties with active keyframes on the selected layers, hiding everything else to declutter your timeline.
U
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Time-Reverse Layer
Instantly plays the selected video or pre-composed layer backwards.
CtrlAltR
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Duplicate Layer
Instantly creates an exact copy of the selected layer(s), mask, or effect right above the original in the timeline.
CtrlD
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Toggle Graph Editor
Instantly switches the timeline view to the Graph Editor for advanced keyframe animation tweaking.
ShiftF3
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