User Guide

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ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 5.0
User Guide
Use the switches to adjust the balance between display performance and display quality
during your work session, clicking switch icons for individual layers to turn them off or
on. You can also control them for selected layers by choosing Layer > Switches > command.
Check marks next to commands indicate that those switches are currently turned on.
The A/V Features panel includes the Video ( ), Audio ( ), Solo ( ), and Lock ( )
switches. The Switches panel contains the Shy ( ), Collapse Transformations ( ), Quality
( ), Effects ( ), Frame Blending ( ), Motion Blur ( ), Adjustment Layer ( ), and 3D
Layer ( ) switches.
Quickly change switches for multiple layers by clicking the switch for one layer and
dragging up or down that column for the adjacent layers.
By default, the layer Switches panel shares space in the Timeline window with the Transfer
Modes panel (see “Using layer modes” on page 261), so one or the other is visible—but
not both. You can toggle between the two panels or show both panels simultaneously.
To toggle between the layer Switches panel and the transfer Modes panel:
Click Switches/Modes at the bottom of the panel in the Timeline window.
Note: The Expand or Collapse button ( ) at the bottom of the layer names panel hides and
reshows the Switches/Modes panel. If you do not see the Switches/Modes button, click the
Expand or Collapse button.
To display both the Switches and Transfer Modes panels:
1 Click the right arrow above the Timeline window vertical scroll bar to open the
Timeline window menu.
2 Choose Panels > Modes (if Modes is not checked) or Panels > Switches (if Switches is
not checked).
When you set switches in a composition with other compositions nested within it, After
Effects also applies those switches to the subordinate compositions. These settings include
the Quality, Collapse Transformations, Motion Blur, and Frame Blending switches.
If you do not want the switch settings you add to parent compositions to apply to the
compositions nested within them, change that at the Preferences level.
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