After Effects Fastlane - Stream Deck Mini

🎬 After Effects Fastlane for Stream Deck Mini: three pages, nine actions, and nothing you have to think about.

Six keys is six keys. So this one is not the full map, it's the nine things worth spending a Mini on ⚡

--

✅ Bottom row is nav, top row is the work. Build, Animate, and Effects & View sit in the same three spots on every page, each lit in its own color. You never hunt for the page you're on.

✅ Solo and Shy on real keys. After Effects ships both with no shortcut at all, and they're the two switches you hit constantly while a comp gets busy. The included FlowKits keyboard preset is what makes them reachable.

✅ The keyframe move, then out the door. Add Keyframe at the playhead, Position, and Scale on Animate. Apply Recent Effect, Effect Controls, and Add to Render Queue on Effects & View.

Windows only, with keyboard presets for After Effects 24.0, 24.3, 25.1, and 26.2. There's no Mac build in this one.

--

⚡ Why You'll Love It

I ranked every After Effects shortcut for how much time it actually saves, then kept cutting until nine were left. Solo, Shy, and New Solid on Build. The keyframe trio on Animate. Effects and render on the last page.

Nothing here duplicates a hotkey your fingers already know. Ctrl+S stays on the keyboard. What's on the deck is the stuff that otherwise costs you a menu dive or a modifier chord you have to stop and remember.

The Mini is the companion deck. If you want the Text and Refine pages, the label color folder, or the dials, they're on the +, XL, and + XL versions of this profile.

--

📦 What's Inside

🗂️ 3 pages: Build, Animate, Effects & View.

🔀 Solo and Shy, neither of which has a default After Effects hotkey.

🔑 Add Keyframe at the playhead, plus Position and Scale keyframes.

🎬 Apply Recent Effect, Effect Controls, and Add to Render Queue.

⌨️ 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.

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

--

🚀 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.

--

📥 What's Included

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

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

✅ Complete key icon library

✅ Setup guide

--

🎯 Perfect For

Motion designers who already have a deck full of OBS or Slack keys and want After Effects on a second one. Editors who dip into After Effects a few days a week. Anyone with a Mini sitting next to the keyboard doing not much.

🎬 Three pages. Nine actions. Less Thinking, More Creating.

--

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 Mini profile.