Tim,

Check out this page for instructions on how to modify keyboard shortcuts…

http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/modify-keyboard-shortcuts.html

 

Glen in Vegas

 

 

From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv]
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 12:02 PM
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: [AE] Assigning Extract Work Area to a hotkey

 

Listers,
I don't know if I should be embarrassed by this, but I've been using Extract Work Area on individual frames for years now, and hadn't thought to ask the list if there was a way to assign that to a hotkey, key sequence, or something else someone might have thought up. There isn't a key sequence already assigned, as there is for so many editing choices. I'm using Extract Work Area a lot as part of making environmental satellite imagery sequences from old archived data that usually is noisy, messy and otherwise wonky from one data set to another, especially data from the old geostationary satellites. I just put together a movie of Hurricane Hugo and found myself, once again, lamenting not having a key stroke way to remove a frame as I page down, see a junk image, click on Edit, select Extract Work Area, repeat, repeat, etc. Any ideas? Thanks....Tim