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Title Safe Region: A slider that sets the percentage of the Canvas where the title-safe guides
appear. (Default is 80% of Canvas.)
Safe Zone Color: Controls that set the color of the safe zone guides.
Film Zone: A pop-up menu that sets the guide size to match a standard aspect ratio. Entering a
number into the value eld to the right of the pop-up menu sets a custom aspect ratio. There
are ve menu choices:
Academy Flat 1.85:1
Anamorphic Scope 2.35:1
High Denition 16:9
Academy Standard 4:3
Custom
Film Zone Color: Controls that set the color of the lm zone guides.
3D pane
The 3D pane of the Preferences window lets you control various aspects of working in the
Motion 3D workspace. There are two categories of controls: General 3D and 3D Grid.
General 3D
These settings let you control the Inset view and choose whether new groups default to 2D or
3D mode.
Display Inset View: A pop-up menu that sets when the Inset view (a temporary window that
displays a camera view) appears in the Canvas. Inset View must be enabled in the View menu
or View pop-up menu (in the upper-right corner of the Canvas) for the Inset view to appear.
There are three menu items:
On Transform Change: Sets the Inset view to appear when adjusting an objects transform
parameters, such as position, rotation, or scale.
On All Changes: Sets the Inset view to appear when making adjustments specic to an
object, such as adjusting the parameters of a replicator, in the HUD or Inspector.
Manually: Sets the Inset view to be displayed all the time.
Inset View Size: A slider that sets the size of the Inset view.
For more about using the Inset view, see Inset view on page 922.
67% resize factor