Perspective View Menu

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

Pastes the copied object in the same place as the original.

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.

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.

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 into the view, towards the view's pivot point, up to 80,000%.

Zooms out of the view, away from the view's pivot point, up to 1%.

Moves infinitely forward into the view, using the direction set by the current position and angle of rotation.

Moves infinitely backwards out of the view, using the direction set by the current position and angle of rotation.

Resets the view’s zoom to its default position.

Resets the view’s pan to its default position.

Resets the view to its default position.

Resets view to have the selected object at the center, without resetting the rotation angles or zoom.

Shows or hides the Layer Properties view.

Turns on the light table so you can see Turns on the light table so you can see the previous and subsequent active layers in washed-out colours. It is useful for seeing the other layers when designing, animating or cleaning up your animation.

Displays the camera cone.

Allows you to change the near and far clipping distances. The far clipping distance value specifies how far the camera can see. The near clipping distance value specifies how close the camera can see. By default, the near clipping distance is 1 and the far clipping distance is set to 1000.

Displays the controls of the selected element.

Hides the controls of the selected element.

Plays back your animation in the Perspective view.

Animation

Animate Animate

When this option is selected, if you use the Transform or Advanced Animation tools to make transformations to an element in your scene, the transformations will be stored as keyframes at the beginning and at the end of the current Onion Skin range, as well as on every existing keyframe in-between. This can be useful if you want to reposition an element that you have already animated, but only during a specific range of frames, which you can define by enabling Onion Skin and setting the Onion Skin range to cover that range of frames.

When this option is selected, if you use the Transform or Advanced Animation tools to make transformation to an element in your scene, the transformations will affect the element throughout the whole scene. This can be useful if you want to reposition an element after you have already animated it.

Adds a keyframe to the currently selected frame in the Timeline view.

Adds a control point to the motion path at the currently selected frame—see Displaying Controls. This control point does not appear in the Timeline, but can be used to reshape the motion path—see Coordinates and Control Points View. In order for this command to work, layers must be set to 3D Path—see Layer Properties View.

Converts the selected keyframes to stop-motion keyframes. Between a stop-motion keyframe and the next keyframe, Harmonydoes 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.

Flip Horizontal: Flips the current selection horizontally.

Flip Vertical: Flips the current selection vertically.

Flip Scale X: Once your drawing layer is rotated, the original horizontal and vertical axes change. The Flip Scale X and Flip Scale Y will perform a flip on your drawing layer following its original axis.Remembers the original X-axis of the layer and flips the element following it.

Flip Scale Y: Remembers the original Y-axis of the layer and flips the element following it.

Opens the Set Ease for Multiple Parameters dialog box where you can change the velocity of selection functions.

Straightens out the motion path on either sides of the selected control point—see Converting Angled and Curved Corners.

Indicates whether the point is locked to a specific frame (keyframe) or only locked to a specific position and the curve can flow through it freely as other points are being added, moved, or adjusted (control point).

Locks the Z value when you're animating in 3D space. This means you can only reposition your object along the x and y axes.

Select the previous keyframe/point.

Select Next Keyframe /Point

Lock: Locks Locks one or a multiple selection of layers.

Unlock: Unlocks Unlocks one or a multiple selection of locked layers.

Lock All: Locks Locks all the layers in the Timeline view.

Unlock All: Unlocks Unlocks all the layers in the Timeline view.

Lock All Others: Locks Locks every layer except the selected ones.

Returns Returns the value of the selected element to the initial value of the active tool. For example, if the Rotate tool is active, the transformation angle will be reset to 0 and if the Transform tool is active, all the transformation values will be reset.

Resets Resets all transformations on the current frame in a selected layer. Your keyframe will remain, but all the values will return to the starting value. All transformations are reset regardless of the tool you're using.

Resets Resets all transformations on the current frame except the Z position. This is useful when doing cut-out animation. Cut-out puppets often have a particular Z ordering for the different views of a character. You might want to reset the transformation, but not necessarily the Z position.

Animation Tools

Allows you to select drawing layers and position, rotate, scale and skew them.

Lets you move the selected element along the X and Y axes.

Turns a selected element around its pivot point.

Increases or decreases the size of a selected element. You can scale an object up to make it larger or down to make it smaller. Press Shift to scale the element while maintaining its proportions.

Slants the selected element.

Lets you reposition, scale, rotate or skew all drawing strokes on every drawing included in a layer.