Remove keybind restrictions
Certain custom keyboard shortcuts cannot be customized. For example, I want to remap the Selection tool to the "A" key. After Effects does not allow this to happen.
I am able to make this change in Premiere Pro and Photoshop, and would appreciate if the same can be done in After Effects by removing these restrictions.
Andrew Hurley
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TaranVH
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@andrew Thanks a lot! Your idea to edit the .txt file directly, worked!
To make this searchable - Here's how to circumvent / fix the " That key may not be reassigned " problem.
For me, the folder location was here:
C:\Users\13gpu\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\16.1\aeks
You'll have to replace "13gpu" with your own username.And my current text file of shortcuts is called:
taran 4 - AE keyboard.txt
but yours will be different.Then I just opened that file in a notepad, and changed a few lines, like so:
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Andrew Hurley
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An update: I was able to circumvent these keybind restrictions by modifying the .txt file the keyboard shortcuts are saved to.
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Zak
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A fully-customizable keyboard shortcut menu. No more "this key cannot be re-mapped". If Premiere can support this functionality, there is no reason why AE needs immobile (and extremely unintutive) key mappings.
Please and thank you.
