Monday 28 January 2013

Keyboard shortcuts and miscellaneous user interface changes


Keyboard shortcuts and miscellaneous user interface changes
To mitigate the problem of some new Apple keyboards lacking a numeric keypad, alternative shortcuts have been added for common
operations that have shortcuts that use the numeric keypad. These changes are for Mac OS only. For a complete list of keyboard shortcuts,
see Keyboard shortcuts.


function                      shortcut using numeric keypad                                          new shortcut
RAM preview            - 0 (zero on numeric keypad)                                                   Control+0 (zero
                                                                                                                                 on main keyboard)
Shift+RAM preview  - Shift+0 (zero on numeric keypad)                                           Shift+Control+0 (zero
                                                                                                                                  on main keyboard)
Preview only audio
from the current time .-(decimal on the numeric keypad)                                             Control+. (period on
                                                                                                                                 main keyboard)
Preview only
audio in work area     -Option+. (decimal on numeric keypad)                                    Control+Option+
                                                                                                                          (period on main keyboard)
Preview N frames      -Option+0 (zero on numeric keypad)                               Control+Option+0 (zero
                                                                                                                        on main  keyboard)
Add marker at current  * (multiply on numeric keypad)                        Control+8 (on main keyboard)
time (layer marker
if layer selected, composition marker
otherwise)


Add marker at current--Option+* (multiply on numeric keypad) --Option+Control+8 (on main keyboard)
time (layer marker
if layer selected,
composition marker
otherwise) and open
 marker dialog box.



Pressing J or K goes to beginning, end, or base frame of Roto Brush span if viewing Roto Brush in Layer panel: Time navigation (keyboard
shortcuts)
Pressing PP shows Roto Brush strokes as well as paint strokes and Puppet pins: Showing properties and groups in the Timeline panel
(keyboard shortcuts)
New keyboard shortcuts for Look At Selected Layers and Look At All Layers commands: 3D layers (keyboard shortcuts)
New shortcuts to display entire composition duration in the Timeline panel: Zoom in or out in time for a composition
Mouse scroll wheel no longer changes camera position when the Unified Camera tool is active. Rolling the mouse scroll wheel zooms in this
context: Scroll or zoom with the mouse wheel
Many dialog boxes now have a Preview option that allows you to see the results of changes before you close the dialog box. Dialog boxes
for which the Preview option has been added include Interpret Footage, Composition Settings, Camera Settings, Solid Settings, Light
Settings, 3D Rotation, and all transform property dialog boxes.
In the Project, Render Queue, and Effect Controls panels, you can use the arrow keys to expand or collapse groups.
Several more features now operate on the visible viewer in ETLAT mode, including keyboard shortcuts for toggling grids, toggling guides,
showing channels, working with snapshots, and sending a preview to an external video monitor: Edit this, look at that (ETLAT) and locked
Composition viewers
Changed some user interface strings to make their meaning and function more clear.
In Help menu, changed Community Help And Support to After Effects Support Center: After Effects Support Center on the Adobe website
In Composition panel, changed Show Last Snapshot to Show Snapshot: Snapshots
In Mask Interpolation panel, changed Mask Shape to Mask Path in all items, including changing Add Mask Shape Vertices to Add Mask
Path Vertices: Animate a mask path with Smart Mask Interpolation
In the Output Module Settings dialog box, the Output Module Templates dialog box, and the Output Module section of the Render Queue
panel, Stretch has been renamed to Resize: Output modules and output module settings
In several places relevant to importing Photoshop and Illustrator files as compositions, Composition - Cropped Layers changed to
Composition - Retain Layer Sizes: Import a still-image sequence as a composition
In the SWF Settings dialog box, the Prevent Import checkbox has been renamed to Prevent Editing to clarify its intent: SWF export
settings
Removed Preserve Clipboard Data For Other Applications preference. This option is now always on.









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