General Preferences

Starts new acts and joins selected acts which are displayed in the Timeline view.

In Storyboard Pro, you can organize panels in scenes and acts. By default, acts are not available because they are not relevant to every script. If you have a story divided into acts, select this option to display and manipulate these sections—see About the Storyboard Structure.

When you move scenes around, the Rename Scene dialog box opens prompting you to rename the scenes. This option is enabled by default. When you deselect this option, existing scenes keep their original name and new scenes are automatically named without the Rename Scene dialog box opening—see About the Storyboard Structure.

In Storyboard Pro, some keyboard shortcuts, menus or toolbar buttons are intended for specific views in your workspace. To use keyboard shortcuts or other functionalities on a specific view, this view must be focused on. For example, the Centre on Selection shortcut will find the selected element in the Timeline or Camera view, depending on which one is focused on. Storyboard Pro draws a red rectangle around the currently focused on view.

By default, to set the focus on a view, you must click on its tab or on anything inside the view itself. The Focus on Mouse Enter preference will make Harmony automatically focus on the view the mouse cursor is over, making it switch the focus on a view and use keyboard shortcuts on it.

NOTE Some items in the top menu also have functionalities that are specific to the focused on view, but moving the mouse cursor to the top menu might leave the wrong view focused on. To circumvent this problem, it might be necessary to become familiar with keyboard shortcuts, contextual (right-click) menus and the view menus available via the menu button at the top-left corner of some views.

By default, when adding a transition, the length of scenes is not adjusted. Since the transition causes the next scene to start playing before the current scene finishes playing, this results in the project becoming shorter by the length of the transition.

With this option enabled, when a transition is added, both scenes that are joined by the transition are extended by half the length of the transition, resulting in the project remaining in the same length, and all subsequent scenes starting at the same time as before.

Determines the number of actions retained by the Undo list. By default, 50 actions are stored in the list. You can alter the number if you want to.

By default, new storyboard projects are created without sequences. Select this option so new projects are automatically created with a sequence—see About the Storyboard Structure.

When any change is made to the workspace, such as adding, moving or removing a view or a toolbar, the change is automatically saved to the current workspace.

Lets you decide if thumbnails are automatically generated in the Library view or not. By default this option is enabled.

Lets you decide if thumbnails are automatically generated for panels or not.

Use live action terminology across the Storyboard Pro user interface, ie: act, scene, shot and panel.

Use animation terminology across the Storyboard Pro user interface, ie: act, sequence, scene, and panel.

By default this option is disabled, this means that when using the Storyboard > Split Current Scene command, the current scene will be split in two before the selected panel. When enabled, the scene will be broken in three, isolating the selected panel in the middle. If you select multiple panels and use the Split Current Scene command, each selected panel will break into a separate scene—see About the Storyboard Structure.

Tracks scene/shot names in a log file.

Maintains the layer selection while navigating between panels.

Keeps layer selection to layer specified in selected brush preset.

The resolution at which textures will be reduced when using the Reduce Texture option in the Optimize Project dialog box. Value is in dots per field (dpf).

Remove unused elements in a project when closing it.