Node View Menu

File

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

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.

Deselects the currently selected items and selects all other items that were not selected. For example, if some lines are selected in a drawing, this command will deselect them and select any other lines in the drawing that were not selected.

Shows or hides the Layer Properties view.

Refreshes the node structure and rerenders the display when the Camera view is in render mode.

You can tag elements in the Timeline or Node views to view only those elements. When you tag elements, an asterisk appears beside the item in the Timeline view. Once your elements are tagged and you have switched over to View Tagged Layers mode, the Timeline view will display only tagged elements. The red bar on the left of the layers indicates you are in this view mode. See About Timeline View Modes.

Timeline Tag: Tags selected elements in the Timeline or Node views.

Timeline Untag: Untags selected layer in the Timeline view.

Timeline Untag All: Untags all tagged elements.

Timeline Untag All Others: Untags all elements except the selected one.

Renders a frame each time the current frame is changed.

You must have a Write node in your node structure to use this command.

Lets you select the first element parented to the selected peg element in the Timeline view skipping effects in the hierarchy.

Lets you select the first element parented to the selected peg element in the Timeline view.

Select contents within the group node.

Lets you select all elements parented to the selected peg element in the Timeline view.

Lets you select the parent of the selected element in the Timeline view skipping effects in the hierarchy.

Lets you select the parent of the selected element in the Timeline view.

Lets you select the previous element (above current element) in the Timeline view.

Lets you select the next element (below current element) in the Timeline view.

View

Zooms in the view.

Zooms out the view.

Resets the view’s zoom to its default position.

Centre the display of the Node view on the selected node. This is useful when you have many nodes in the Node view, you may find it hard to locate which one is selected.

Resets the view’s pan to its default position.

Resets the view to its default position.

Display all nodes.

Display the Layer Properties editor of the selected node.

To quickly access parameters for nodes that are grouped, you can select your most common parameters to modify and make them appear in the group Layer Properties editor. This way, you can access them directly without having to enter the group every time.

Displays the thumbnails of selected nodes.

Hides all the thumbnails of selected nodes.

Hide Navigator: Hides the navigator.

Top Right: Places the navigator in the top-right corner of the Node view.

Top Left: Places the navigator in the top-left corner of the Node view.

Bottom Right: Places the navigator in the bottom-right corner of the Node view.

Bottom Left: Places the navigator in the top-left corner of the Node view.

Line: Use straight lines to show the connections between nodes.

Bezier: Use curved (Bezier) lines to show the connections between nodes.

Nodes

Activate the selected node.

Deactivate the selected node.

Activate all nodes.

Deactivates all nodes except for those those selected. This operation only affects the current level layers. It does not affect the nested nodes within a group. Deactivated nodes appear in red.

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

When you clone a node, it does not automatically connect itself to the Composite node of your scene.

You can clone the drawings only or both the drawings and timing—see About Clone and Duplicate Layers .

Creates an independent copy of the selected element. 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.

Creates a simple group from your selection. The resulting group displays the same number of connections as elements in the group.

Group a selection.

Ungroups the selected group of nodes.

Moves selected nodes up to the parent group level.

Exits the group.

Removes the most common parameters you selected for quick access in the Layer Properties editor of a group.

Insert

Adds a Composite node to the Node view.

Adds a Display node to the Node view.

Opens the Add Drawing Layer dialog box where you can specify the type of layer to add.

Adds a Group node to the Node view.

Adds a new peg to the timeline as a parent of the selected layer.

Adds a Peg node to the Node view.

Lets you add effects from these categories: 3D, Combine, Deformation, Favourites, Filter, Generator, Group, Misc, Move, Output, Particle, Sapphire, Shading and Plugins.