Scene Settings Dialog Box

You can select your project’s resolution (camera frame size) from this preset list.

• HDTV_1080p24: The standard definition for high definition television at 24 frames per second, mostly used in the Americas and some Asian countries that used the NTSC standard for analogue television.
• HDTV_1080p25: The standard definition for high definition television at 25 frames per second, usually for broadcasting in European, African, Asian and Australian countries that used the PAL or SECAM standard for analogue television.
• HDTV_1080p23.976: The standard definition for high definition television at 23.976 frames per second. This is useful if the remainder of your pipeline uses the 23.976 framerate for legacy reasons.
• HDTV_720p24: The former standard high definition resolution at 24 frames per second.
• 4K_UHD: A standard ultra HD (4K) format for television productons. 4K implies that the width of the image is of, give or take, 4000 pixels.
• 8K_UHD: A standard ultra HD (8K) format for television productions. 8K implies that the width of the image is of, give or take, 8000 pixels.
• DCI_2K: A standard HD format for cinema.
• DCI_4K: A standard ultra HD (4K) format for cinema.
• film-2K: A standard HD format for film projectors with a low aspect ratio.
• film-4K: A standard ultra HD (4K) format for film projectors with a low aspect ratio.
• film-1.33_H: The standard resolution for the academy film format that conforms to the standard 4:3 aspect ratio.
• film-1.66_H: The standard resolution for widescreen film format that conforms to the 16:9 aspect ratio.
• film-1.66_V: The standard resolution for widescreen film format, but with a vertical field of view.
• Cineon: The standard format for 35 mm Kodak/Cineon film.
• NTSC: The standard resolution and framerate for analogue standard definition televisions in most of the Americas (except Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina), Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines and Myanmar.
• PAL: The standard resolution and framerate for analogue standard definition televisions in Europe, Africa, Australia, most of Asia, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.
• 2160p-240p: A series of standard widescreen presets named after their resolution heights.
• low: A resolution based on NTSC with half of its standard dimensions.
• Web_Video: A legacy format for web streaming.
• Game_512: A preset for the gaming pipeline, with a square canvas.
• Game_512_Ortho: Like Game_512, except with Orthographic projection so that elements moved on the Z axis do not appear smaller or bigger.
• WebCC_Preview: The preset used by WebCC to render previews of scenes in a Harmony Server database.
• HDTV: The standard definition for high definition television at 24 frames per second, with a horizontal fit field of view.
• HDTV_Vertical: The standard definition for high definition television at 24 frames per second, with a vertical fit field of view.

Displays the name of the selected resolution preset just below the presets list. If you have made any changes to the resolution since selecting a preset, this will display "(custom)".

Allows you to save the current resolution settings as a new preset. If you have a resolution preset selected, this button is only available if you have made changes to the resolution since selecting the preset. You will be prompted to type in the name of the new resolution preset. If using Harmony Server, you will also be asked to select in which part of the database you want the preset to be saved.

Displays the ratio between the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the scene. For example, if the scene width and height are the same value, this ratio equals 1. The standard aspect ratio for widescreen televisions is 1.777. For legacy displays, it is 1.333.

The angle of the field of view, which determines the size of the camera cone as well as the way the field grid used to position elements is adjusted to fit the scene.

• Horizontal Fit: The field of view is automatically adjusted so that the field grid and camera cone fit the horizontal length of the scene.
• Vertical Fit: The field of view is automatically adjusted so that the field grid and camera cone fits the vertical length of the scene.
• Custom FOV: Enter the angle of the field of view manually. A greater angle will make a wider camera cone and smaller fields. A smaller angle will mean a more narrow camera cone and bigger fields.

The Projection settings allows you to modify the type of camera your scene is using. You can either use a perspective camera (regular camera) or orthographic camera (no perspective).

• Perspective: Objects placed closer to the camera will be displayed bigger and objects placed further away will be displayed smaller. Elements that are 3D-rotated as well as 3D objects will be rendered in a realistic perspective.
• Orthographic: The size of objects does not depend on their position on the Z-axis. Moving an element forward or backward will not change its apparent size, only its order relative to other elements. 3D-rotated elements and 3D objects will have no foreshortening. This option is more often useful when using Harmony for gaming, and more information about this option is available in the Gaming guide. This option can also be useful if you don't need any perspective in your project and want to use the Z-axis to order elements, or if you want to
TIP In order to create scenes with the Orthographic camera by default, you need to create a new custom scene resolution.

The list of alignment presets. By default, Harmony has these two alignment presets:

• 4:3 12 Fields: Defines the units of your project to have a 4:3 ratio and sets up 12 of these units to run both vertically and horizontally in four cardinal quarters (NW, NE, SW, SE). This is the default setting, and it corresponds to an animation grid used in traditional animation. Hence, coordinates based on a traditional animation grid can be entered in Harmony as is to position elements where they are expected to be.
• Square 12 Fields: Defines the units of your project to have a 1:1 or square ratio and sets up 12 units to run both vertically and horizontally in four cardinal quarters (NW, NE, SW, SE).

The aspect ratio of each field. This describes the proportional difference between the width and the height of the field. By default, it is set to 4:3, which means the width of each field will take 4 unites of length for each 3 units the height of the field takes. In other words, the width of a field is 1.333 times its height. If set to, for example, 1:1, the fields will be perfectly square.

The number of fields the grid should have in each direction. In the Number of Units fields, enter the number of horizontal, vertical and depth units for your scene’s grid.

The grid is a specific size based on the scene's resolution and field of view angle. Changing the amount of units for each direction will not change the size of the grid, but rather, the size of the units. Hence, if an element is offset at 3 North, 4 East, and you change the number of horizontal and vertical units from 24 to 12, the element will become offset twice as far from the centre as it originally was.

The third setting in this field determines the amount of units across the Z axis. This determines how far each unit will take an element further or closer to the camera when moved on the Z-axis. By default, the grid has 12 fields across the Z-axis, which is half the amount of fields on the X and Y axes by default. Hence, each field on the Z-axis is worth exactly twice the length of a field on the horizontal axis.

Animators who are familiar with traditional animation method will understand the default setting of 24 units horizontal by 24 units vertical as it corresponds to a traditional animation grid.

The offset for the centre of the fields grid. The centre of the fields grid is where elements are positioned by default, when they themselves are at coordinates 0,0. To change the centre, you must enter its offset from the actual centre of the grid in fields. For example, if your fields grid is 24 x 24, and you want the centre to be at the top-left corner, you should enter -12,-12.

The working colour space of a project is the one used internally by Harmony. It is also the default colour space used for decoding the colours in drawing layers as well as for exporting images and movies. However, those can be configured to be different from the project colour space if needed.

The following colour spaces are available in Harmony:

• No Colour Space Management: No colour space conversion will be done in the entire project, even if you set the colour space for your drawing layers or for rendering your scene.
• Linear: The same primaries and white point as sRGB and Rec. 709, but with no gamma transfer curve applied to the colour values. This colour space is useful for compositing intermediary images that are meant to be rendered in sRGB or Rec. 709.
• Display P3: A colour space commonly used for digital projection. It has the same primaries as DCI-P3, the same white point as sRGB and the same gamma transfer curve as sRGB.
• Display P3 Linear: The same as Display P3, except with no gamma transfer curve. This colour space is useful for compositing intermediary images that are meant to be rendered in Display P3.
• Rec. 709: The colour space used for HDTV. It has the same primaries and white point as sRGB, but has a different gamma transfer curve.
• Rec. 709 2.4: The same colour space as Rec. 709 or sRGB, except with a gamma transfer curve of 2.4 (per ITU-R BT.1886). This colour space exists because some editing systems use a gamma transfer curve of 2.4 instead of the standard gamma curve for Rec. 709.
• Rec. 2020: A colour space used for Ultra High Definition TV (UHDTV). It has a complex gamma transfer curve and primaries that cover more of the human-perceivable colour space than other colour spaces, especially in the area of human-perceivable greens.
• Rec. 2020 2.4: The same colour space as Rec. 2020, except with a simple gamma transfer curve of 2.4 (per ITU-R BT.1886). This colour space exists because some editing systems use a gamma transfer curve of 2.4 instead of the standard gamma curve for Rec. 2020.
• Rec. 2020 Linear: The same colour space as Rec. 2020, except with no gamma transfer curve. This colour space is useful for compositing intermediary images that are meant to be rendered in Rec. 2020.
• sRGB: A colour space typically used for standard computer monitors. It has the same primaries and white point as Rec. 709, but has a different gamma transfer curve.

By default, your drawing layers are read in the same colour space as your project, and your rendered frames are created in the same colour space as your project as well. However, if the colour space for the project is different from the colour space used for drawing layers and from the colour space used for rendering your scene, the project colour space serves as the “intermediary” colour space.

This means that, in the process of rendering your scene, your drawing layers are converted from their colour space to the project’s colour space, after which they are composited together along with your scene’s visual effects, and finally the rendered image is converted to the colour space selected for rendering your scene.

Hence, from a compositing perspective, it is recommended to set your project’s workspace to the linear variant of the colour space used for your drawing layers and for rendering your scene. Working this way ensures that calculations made on the colour values for compositing visual elements effects are not affected by the colour space’s gamma curve. The following is a table of recommended colour space configurations: