Xsheet View Menu

File

Images: Imports bitmap images which you can choose to vectorize—see About Importing Bitmap Images.

From Scanner: Imports drawings from a TWAIN scanner.

Sounds: Lets you import sound files into your project.

Prints the exposure sheet so you can take it to your animation table, provide a copy to the animator, or create your Xsheet skeleton directly in Harmony.

Edit

Removes selected objects. You can then paste the object or its properties to another object.

Copies selected objects and properties.

Places an object you cut or copied into the location you select in a view.

Lets you copy and paste selected drawings into a different layer or paste the selection in the same layer to duplicate the drawings.

Pastes new drawings with the previous Paste Special settings.

Cycles a portion of an animation. You can increase or decrease the number of cycles to paste and select a type of cycle: Normal, Reverse, Forward-Reverse and Reverse-Forward.

Reverses the timing of drawings or keyframes in range of selection after copying.

Removes selected objects.

Selects all drawing objects in the current drawing window in the Drawing, Timeline and Camera views. This helps you manage multiple objects as one when moving them.

Deselects all selected objects in the Drawing and Camera views.

Adds a new value or a new value sequence over existing ones, the new values are inserted between the old ones. The existing timing sequence is pushed down the column. The Insert mode opposite of the Overwrite mode, which is the Xsheet default mode.

Lets you drag a cell to any other frame in the same column or into another column.

This feature does not apply to Annotation columns.

Sends selected objects to the Function view where you can edit and adjust its function curve and parameters.

View

Zooms in the view.

Zooms out the view.

Collapse Selection:

Expand Selection:

Collapse All:

Expand All:

Lets you rename a column, and enable or disable a column. To view additional properties, select Edit > Preferences from the top menu. In the Preferences dialog box, select the Advanced tab, then select the Advanced Element Mode option.

Lets you add advanced column types to create particular animation paths. When you create these columns, they are not linked automatically to any particular drawing layer. You can create a motion path using these columns and then link or unlink several drawing or peg layers to it.

Displays column thumbnails making it easier to identify a particular column. This option displays a small thumbnail picture of the current frame below the column header.

Lets you change the column width (in pixels) and set it as the default.

Returns all columns to their default width of 100 pixels.

Lets you customize the colour of the column by selecting one from the Select Colour dialog box. The colour you select is also reflected in the correspondng layer in the Timeline view.

Removes the colour you assigned to a column (if any).

Hides selected columns.

Displays all columns.

Displays columns that were previously hidden.

Plays back your animation in the Perspective view.

Columns

Lets you add a column. You can specify the column name, type, and set drawing layer options in the Add Column dialog box that opens.

Removes the selected column. You have the option to delete the associated drawing files and element folders.

Creates a copy of the selected column that is linked to the original. If a drawing is modified in the original or cloned column, both will be updated. However, cloned columns can have different timings.

You can clone the drawings only or both the drawings and timing—see Cloning Layers and Columns.

Creates an independent copy of the selected column. This useful when you need to modify the element independently, including the timing (exposure). Changes to the original element do not propagate to the duplicate.

There are two methods of merging drawings.

• You can merge selected drawings in adjacent elements. The columns and layers will be left intact, and each new merged drawing will reside in the frames of the left-most column or lower layer.
• You can merge elements. All drawings will be merged. Unused columns and layers will be deleted, but the original drawing files are still accessible.

See Merging Drawings.

Deletes the selected frames from your scene.

Drawings

Creates a duplicate of the selected drawing in the layer. The duplicate drawing will be exposed at the selected frame instead of the original drawing. Hence, this command allows you to instantly start working on a duplicate of the current drawing and retain the original.

Lets you give a selected drawing a new name.

Marks selected drawings as one of the following: Key, Breakdown, In-between, RetakeKey, RetakeBD or RetakeIB.

This helps to keep the Xsheet well organized while animating.

When working with several animators, directors or even other studios, the necessity for retakes will often arise. Harmony gives you the possibility to mark new drawings as either Retake Key, Retake Breakdown, or Retake In-betweens.

See About Marked Drawings.

Exposure

Adds Adds one more exposure to a selected cell; repeating this action adds an extra cell each time. This is an efficient way to extend a drawing's exposure and is always set in Insert mode. Increasing an exposure pushes the existing exposure forward.

Decreases exposure of a selected cell by one; repeating this action decreases one exposure adds an extra cell each time. This is an efficient way to shorten a drawing's exposure. Decreasing an exposure pulls in the existing exposure.

Lets you set the exposure to 1, 2, 3 or a custom exposure.

Lets you extend the length of a selected cell.

Adds a key exposure to the selected cell.

Removes key exposures from the selected cells.

When working with drawings to adjust the timing of a mouth in a lipsync, for example, and forcing the use of specific key exposures, unnecessary key exposures will be created. You can delete these duplicates without affecting the rest of the drawing. The first drawing of the selection will be used for the range.

Lets you Fills the empty frames in the selection with the exposure just before. For example, if you select a range of frame that starts with an exposed drawing and then ends with empty cells, all of the empty cells in the selection will be filled with the exposed drawing just before the empty cells.

Adds Adds an empty cell between other cells.

Removes the exposure from the selected cell.

Replaces the exposure from the selected cell with exposures that follow it.

Lets you Lets you fill the same value over an entire selection. The selection can be over one cell, a cell range in one column, a cell range over many columns, an entire column, or many columns. You can use numbers, words, letters, or any alphanumeric value.

Lets you Lets you create a numbered sequence over a selection. The sequence can be forward, backward, single, double or higher increment, as a cycle, and so on. The selection can be over one cell or a cell range in one column or more or an entire column or many entire columns.

Lets you Lets you fill in random values over a selection. You can give a maximum and a minimum value and create a range for Harmony to choose the random values from. The selection can be over one cell or a cell range in one column or more or an entire column or many entire columns.

Lets you expose a drawing for three, four, or five cells and so on.

Motion

Deletes the selected keyframes.

Converts the selected keyframes to stop-motion keyframes. Between a stop-motion keyframe and the next keyframe, Harmony does not generate any animation and the element remains static until the next keyframe.

Converts the selected keyframes to motion keyframes. With motion keyframes, Harmony generates the interpolation between the motion keyframe and the next keyframe. This means that a value for each frame between the keyframes is calculated by Harmony to progress from the value of the previous keyframe to the value of the next keyframe.

Morphing

Allows you to create and configure a morphing sequence, which will automatically generate the in-betweens between two drawings in the current layer.

Once a cell is selected in a morphing sequence, deletes the entire sequence between the two keyframes.

Creates a morphing keyframe from a selected morphing frame.

Lets Lets you convert your morphing inbetweens to real drawings you can edit. This is useful when manually editing a morphing sequence or if you prefer to have animation timing in double frame (on twos) instead of single frame (on ones).

Lip-Sync

Lets you change the mouth shape to one of the following: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, X.

Generates a sound detection for lip-sync.

Automatically maps Automatically maps drawings in an element to the mouth chart you have generated for a sound. This can save time when you are lip-synching a voice track.

Sound Display

Shows the name of the sound file, as well as the file format. The line running vertically through the column frames between the same file name indicates a continuity of the same sound file in these frames.

Shows the letter (or name depending on the way you named your character's different mouth positions) in the column's frames. There is only one mouth position allotted per frame and this position should correspond to the sound file after performing a lip-sync.

Shows a vertical display of the sound file's actual waveform. In the column header, in the field under the column name, you can type in a percentage to zoom in or zoom out on the waveform, or pass the scroll cursor over the Zoom Waveform icon.

Sound Edit

Places an empty cell between other cells.

Replaces the exposure from the selected cell with exposures that follow it.

Annotation

Lets you import an image file in an Annotation column.

Lets you change the pen colour by selecting one from the Select Colour dialog box.

Lets you select a pen preset or change the pen width (in pixels).

Lets you modify the width of the Eraser tool.

Removes all text and drawn annotations. Annotations that you type in cannot be erased using this method.

Removes images you select in the Annotation column.

Removes text you select in the Annotation column.