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Exposing All Layers
Using the Expose All Layers key command, you can get a visual sense of all elements in
your project and select an element to manipulate.
To expose all layers in your project
1 Click anywhere in the Canvas.
2 Press Shift-X.
Layers in the project temporarily scale down and spread out over the Canvas. Each layer
in the project is represented by a white frame in the Canvas. Moving the pointer over a
frame shows the layer’s name.
Before
After Expose command
3 Select the layer to work on.
The layers move and rescale back to their original positions; the element is selected in
the Canvas; and the playhead moves to the first frame of the selected layer.
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