Adobe After Effects CS4 - Manual (Page 27)

21 USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
User interface
Last updated 12/21/2009
• Audio Preview Duration: “ Preview video and audio ” on page 195
Display preferences
• Motion Path: “ Motion paths ” on page 223
• Disable Thumbnails In Project Panel: “ Composition thumbnail images ” on page 59
• Show Rendering Progress In Info Panel And Flowchart: “ Preview video and audio ” on page 195
• Hardware Accelerate Composition, Layer, And Footage Panels: “ Improve performance ” on page 637
Import preferences
• Still Footage: “ Create layers from footage items or change layer source ” on page 139
• Sequence Footage: “ Import a single still image or a still-image sequence ” on page 103
• Interpret Unlabeled Alpha As: “ Alpha channel interpretation: premultiplied or straight ” on page 73
• Default Drag Import As: “ Import footage items ” on page 70
Output preferences
• Overflow Volumes, Segment Sequences At, Segment Movie Files At, and Audio Block Duration: “ Overflow
volumes and segment settings ” on page 731
Grids & Guides preferences
• Safe Margins: “ Safe zones, grids, guides, and rulers ” on page 207
Label Colors and Label Defaults preferences
• Label Colors and Label Defaults: “ Color labels for layers and footage items ” on page 156
Media & Disk Cache preferences
• Enable Disk Cache and Maximum Disk Cache Size: “ RAM and disk caches ” on page 633
• Conformed Media Cache and Clean Database & Cache: “ The media cache ” on page 634
• Create Layer Markers From Footage XMP Metadata and Write XMP IDs To Files On Import: “ XMP metadata in
After Effects ” on page 626
Video Preview preferences
• Output Device, Output Mode, Output Quality, Output During, and Scale And Letterbox Output To Fit Video
Monitor: “
Preview on an external video monitor ” on page 203
Appearance preferences
• Cycle Mask Colors: “ Control mask path color ” on page 377
• Brightness: Brightens or darkens user interface (UI) colors.