Open panel, viewer, and context menus, Columns, Find items more easily with search fields – Adobe After Effects CS4 User Manual
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USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
User interface
Last updated 12/21/2009
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Activating tools (keyboard shortcuts)
Open panel, viewer, and context menus
Panel menus provide commands relative to the active panel or frame. Viewer menus provide lists of compositions,
layers, or footage items that can be shown in the viewer, as well as commands for closing items and locking the viewer.
Context menus provide commands relative to the item that is context-clicked. Many items in the After Effects user
interface have associated context menus. Using context menus can make your work faster and easier.
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To open a panel menu, click the button
in the upper-right corner of the panel.
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To open a viewer menu, click the name of the active composition, layer, or footage item in the viewer tab.
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To open a context menu, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac
OS). This action is sometimes referred to as
context-clicking.
Columns
The Project, Timeline, and Render Queue panels contain columns.
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To show or hide columns, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac
OS) a column heading (or choose Columns
from the panel menu), and select the columns that you want to show or hide. A check mark indicates that the
column is shown.
Note: In general, the search and filter functions in the Project and Timeline panels only operate on the content of
columns that are shown.
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To reorder columns, select a column name and drag it to a new location.
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To resize columns, drag the bar next to a column name. Some columns cannot be resized.
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Search and filter in the Timeline, Project, and Effects & Presets panels
Search and filter in the Timeline, Project, and Effects & Presets panels
The Project, Timeline, and Effects & Presets panels each contain search fields that you can use to filter items in the
panel.
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To place the insertion point in a search field, click in the search field.
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To place the insertion point in the search field for the active panel, choose File
> Find or press Ctrl+F (Windows)
or Command+F (Mac OS).
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To clear the search field, click the
button that appears to the right of the text in the search field.
When you type in the search field, the list of items in the panel is filtered, showing some items and hiding others. Only
items with entries that match the search query that you’ve typed are shown. The folders, layers, categories, or property
groups that contain the matched items are also shown, to provide context.
In general, only text in columns that are shown is searched for this filtering operation. For example, you may need to
show the Comments column to search and filter by the contents of comments. (See “