User Guide

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User Guide
Customizing Flowchart View
You can customize Flowchart View using the Flowchart View menu. Specify the type of
lines between elements (angled or straight), justification, what tiles appear (layers with or
without showing effects), and flow direction. The menu also includes a Cleanup
command to reorganize elements in aligned flowcharts.
You can also use the four buttons along the bottom of the Flowchart View window, which
are shortcuts for many of these menu commands. The Show Effects button ( ) is unique
because it also serves as a slider for the justification commands. Use the slider by holding
down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you drag the slider.
For keyboard shortcuts for these and other procedures, see the After Effects 5.0 Quick
Reference Card. For tool tips identifying the buttons in the Flowchart View window, let
your pointer hover over a button until the tool tip appears.
You can change the tile label colors in Flowchart View using a context menu.
To change label colors in Flowchart View:
1 Select the tile you want to change to a different color.
2 Right-click (Windows) or Control+click (Mac OS) the name section of the tile, and
choose the color (or None) you want to apply.
To apply the new color to all elements in that label group, choose Select Label Group from
the context menu to select all those items before you do step 2.
Using Flowchart View to make changes
You can make some changes to your project from within the Flowchart View window.
You can delete elements by selecting them and pressing Delete. If the selected element is
a footage item or composition, it is deleted from the project and no longer appears in the
Timeline and Project windows. If the selected element is a layer, it is deleted from the
composition in which it appears.
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