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USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
User interface
Last updated 12/21/2009
Project panel
• Added text field for searching and filtering. Removed Find button from bottom of panel. See “Search and filter in
the Timeline, Project, and Effects & Presets panels” on page 17.
• Added Interpret Footage button to bottom of panel. See “Interpret footage items” on page 71.
• Changed Project Flowchart View to Project Flowchart. See “Flowchart panel” on page 51.
• Added label name next to label color swatch. See “Color labels for layers and footage items” on page 156.
• Added Composition Settings and Rename commands to context menu. See “Composition settings” on page 58 and
“Rename and sort items” on page 81.
Render Queue panel
• Moved information from All Renders heading to status bar at bottom of panel. Changed Current Render Details to
Current Render. The Render button does not become the Stop button when the render queue is rendering. The
Stop, Pause/Continue, and Render buttons are separate buttons. Removed Log File entry. See
“Render and export
with the Render Queue panel” on page 691 and “Render and export a movie using the render queue” on page 692.
• Added plus and minus buttons to add and remove output modules. See “Add output modules to and remove output
modules from render items” on page 701.
• Changed Embedding to Include under Output Module heading. Possible values include Project Link, Source XMP
Metadata, and Project Link & Source XMP Metadata. See
“About projects” on page 49 and “XMP metadata” on
page 625.
Smoother panel
• Changed name of panel from The Smoother to Smoother. See “Smooth motion and velocity by removing extra
keyframes” on page 229.
Timeline panel
• Added text field for searching and filtering. See “Search and filter in the Timeline, Project, and Effects & Presets
panels” on page 17.
• Added duration bar to markers. See “Layer markers and composition markers” on page 619.
• Added label name next to label color swatch. See “Color labels for layers and footage items” on page 156.
• Added Composition Flowchart and Composition Mini-Flowchart to panel menu and to context menu for when
pointer is not on a layer. Replaced Open Parent Composition button with Composition Mini-Flowchart button.
See
“Opening and navigating nested compositions” on page 62.
• Added Transform > Flip Horizontal, Transform > Flip Vertical, Transform > Center In View, Open Footage, Open
Composition, Convert To Live Photoshop 3D, and Convert To Editable Text to context menu for a layer. See
“Scale
or flip a layer” on page 164, “Move layers in space” on page 145, “Opening layers and layer sources” on page 139,
“3D object layers from Photoshop” on page 185, and “Convert text from Photoshop to editable text” on page 346.
• Changed Create Outlines to Create Shapes From Text in context menu for a layer. See “Create shapes from text”
on page 319.
• Added Create Masks From Text in context menu for a layer. See “Create masks from text” on page 319.
• Added Settings, Update Markers From Source (Replaces All Markers), and Lock Markers commands to context
menu for a composition marker. Added Update Markers From Source (Replaces All Markers) to context menu for
a layer marker. See
“Layer markers and composition markers” on page 619.
• Added Copy Expression Only to context menu for a property. See “Save and reuse expressions” on page 652.
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