Modifying And Using Views - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS CS3 PROFESSIONAL User Manual

Set any of the following options:
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Displays RAM previews or standard previews on the external monitor only.
Previews
Mirror On Computer Monitor
and on the computer screen. This may slow down the previews.
Displays interactive previews, such as scrubbing in the Timeline panel or dragging in the Composition
Interactions
panel, on the computer screen and simultaneously on the external monitor.
Displays each frame on the computer screen and simultaneously on the external monitor as the frames
Renders
render in the render queue.
Select Scale And Letterbox Output To Fit Video Monitor if you are working with image sizes that don't match your
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preview device frame size and you want to see the entire image scaled to fit.
After choosing an output device in the Video Preview preferences, you can preview the current frame on the output
device by pressing the forward slash (/) key on the numeric keypad. Press Ctrl+/ (Windows) or Command+/
(Mac OS) to toggle the preference to Desktop Only or to the output device you specified.

Modifying and using views

Select a view layout and share view settings
The Composition panel can show one, two, or four views at a time. By default, viewer options (such as grids and
rulers) affect only the currently selected view.
• To select a view layout, choose an option from the Select View Layout menu at the bottom of the Composition
panel.
• To scroll through view layouts, position the pointer over the Select View Layout menu and spin the mouse wheel.
• To apply view settings to all views in the current layout, choose Share View Options from the Select View Layout
menu. Hold Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) to momentarily reverse this behavior.
See also
"Select a 3D view" on page 130
"Work with viewers" on page 19
Show or hide layer controls in the Composition panel
You can assign different options to each view in the Composition panel, so that you can see any combination of
camera and light wireframes, layer handles, mask and shape paths, effect control points, and motion path controls.
• To choose which layer controls to show in a view, choose View > View Options, or press Ctrl+Alt+U (Windows)
or Command+Option+U (Mac OS).
• To show or hide layer controls in a view, choose View > Show Layer Controls, or press Ctrl+Shift+H (Windows)
or Command+Shift+H (Mac OS). This also shows or hides the 3D reference axes.
• To show or hide mask path and shape paths in a view, click the Toggle Mask And Shape Path Visibility button
at the bottom of the Composition panel.
Displays RAM previews or standard previews simultaneously on the external monitor
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