How to add a keyframe using a keyboard shortcut

[peter wassink]

my question is in the title.

How to add a keyframe using a keyboard shortcut.

i could not find a way to custom assign key's in the program.
Now i'm wondering is my aproach wrong ?
Shouldn't adding keyframes be one of the most important actions in an animation software, so why is there no short cut?

[Zekewolf]

There's a freeze pose, but that's probably not what youre looking for, you're looking for a shortcut key to add a single keyframe. When you move anything that isnt in frame zero, it automatically creates a keyframe.

I'm guessing you want control over adding and removing keyframes?

[peter wassink]

Oh i think, that might be exactly what i want.... off course freeze pose!
apple F right? thanks Zekewolf

i want to block out my animation and prevent all that automatic inbetweening
(as a feature request.....It would be nice if this auto inbetweening could be switched off all together, call it manual mode, would make some types of animation much easier.)

I did find a bug... i tried selecting everything and then select "add keyframe" (from the menu ) i then get the question if i want to also do all the subbblayers when i say yes ASP crashes.

i am on version 10.1.1 i should add.

[Zekewolf]

Yes ctrl F on windows or command F on macs. You have to do it BEFORE you make the next post, otherwise you have to manually tweak it in the motion graph. I have 11.2 so far I havent experienced any major bugs if at all.

11.2 has frame by frame animation now so maybe consider upgrading if you can.

For now freeze pose is the best I can think of you just have to time it properly. Its the closest you can get to what you want.

[synthsin75]

(as a feature request.....It would be nice if this auto inbetweening could be switched off all together, call it manual mode, would make some types of animation much easier.)

It's called step interpolation.