After Effects Fastlane - Stream Deck +

🎬 After Effects Fastlane for Stream Deck +: six workflow pages, four smart dials, and every key doing something you actually use.

Motion work is a loop of nudge, scrub, check, nudge again. Fastlane puts that loop on the deck so you keep your hands where the work is ⚡

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✅ Four dials that make sense for the page you're on. Jog the playhead frame by frame, hop between keyframes, and nudge Scale, Opacity, or Font Size 1% at a time. Press a dial to switch it to x10 steps when fine is too slow.

✅ Page nav lives on a dial, so all eight keys stay free for real actions. Spin the Navigate wheel, press, and you're on Build, Animate, Refine, Text, Effects & View, or Composite & Output.

✅ Reaches commands After Effects ships with no shortcut at all. Separate Dimensions, Time-Reverse Keyframes, Convert Expression to Keyframes, and all seven text animators. The included FlowKits keyboard preset binds them, and each one gets a key.

Windows only, for After Effects 24.0 through 26.2.

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⚡ Why You'll Love It

Most profiles are a shortcut list glued to a grid. This one is organized by the phase you're in: build the comp, animate it, refine the curves, set type, add effects, then camera and render. You always know which page you want, because it's the thing you're doing.

Eight keys is not a lot, so every one had to earn its place. I ranked them, cut the ones with a hotkey your fingers already know, and kept the ones that save a menu dive.

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🎛️ Four Dials, Every Page

🧭 Navigate: spin to pick a page, press to go. Your page nav never eats a key.

⏱️ Jog: one frame per detent. Press it and you're stepping ten at a time.

🔑 Keyframe: jump to the previous or next keyframe. Press to switch into nudging the selected keys instead.

🎚️ Contextual fourth dial: Scale on Build, Font Size on Text, Opacity everywhere else. Fine by default, x10 on a press.

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📦 What's Inside

🗂️ 6 pages: Build, Animate, Refine, Text, Effects & View, Composite & Output.

🎨 Color-coded by function, the same color on every page, so you learn the language once.

⌨️ FlowKits keyboard preset (.aeks) for After Effects 24.0, 24.3, 25.1, and 26.2.

🌍 QWERTY, QWERTZ, and AZERTY presets for Windows keyboards.

🏷️ Editable text labels in any language.

💻 Built and tested on Windows, from the keymap to the last modifier.

🖼️ The full key icon set, in case you want to remix a page.

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🚀 Quick Install

Extract the .zip.

Load the FlowKits keyboard preset for your After Effects version and layout, then restart After Effects (it only reads presets at launch).

Double-click the .streamDeckProfile to import, turn Num Lock on, and go.

Full setup guide with screenshots at getflowkits.com/setup.

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📥 What's Included

✅ After Effects Fastlane profile for Stream Deck + (Windows)

✅ FlowKits keyboard presets for Windows (QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY)

✅ Complete key icon library

✅ Setup guide

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🎯 Perfect For

Motion designers cutting client work to deadline. Editors who live in After Effects a few days a week and never quite memorized the shortcut sheet. Anyone tired of Ctrl-tabbing to the Character panel to change one number.

🎬 Six pages. Four dials. Less Thinking, More Creating.

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Disclaimer

This Stream Deck profile is an independent creation, not affiliated with or endorsed by Adobe Inc. Adobe and After Effects are trademarks of Adobe Inc., used solely to identify compatibility.

Initial release of Fastlane - an After Effects Stream Deck + profile.