8. Menu Commands / Shortcut Lists
This chapter explains composition:builders menu commands. Common commands like open, save, copy, cut, paste are omitted.
File Menu
Command | Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|---|
New | ⌘ + N | Creates a new composition. You can select from a list of common broadcast resolutions, like SD, HD-ready, Full-HD, UHD and 4K. The resolution of a composition cannot be changed later. |
Upgrade Components |
| This performs additional optimization on the underlying compositions saved by composition:builder and played in just:play or just:live. |
Make Paths Relative |
| This command will automatically find and replace absolute paths with relative paths, assuming the file and the composition are both located on the same volume. |
Embed Resources |
| This command will automatically locate any XML, movie and image files referenced within the composition, copy them into the composition file and make the file paths relative to the composition file. This can obviously lead to much larger composition files, but makes copying much easier as only the composition file needs to be copied and not the associated resources. |
Format Menu
Command | Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|---|
Show Fonts | ⌘ + T | Shows the OS X font panel. |
Show Colors | ⌘ + ⇧ + T | Shows the OS X color picker. |
Control Menu
Command | Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|---|
Play | space | Plays (or pauses) the composition playback. Rendering is done directly in the workbench. For a more accurate preview use the 'Preview' function (⌘ + R). |
Set Stopframe | ⌘ + K | Adds a stopframe at the CTI position. |
Jump To Start/End | ⌥ + ⌘ + ← / → | Moves the CTI to the start/end of the compositions timeline. |
Previous/Next Frame | ⇧ + ⌘ + ← / → | Moves the CTI in the timeline by one frame to the left or right. |
Previous/Next Keyframe | fn + ← / → | Moves the CTI to the previous/next keyframe in the timeline. |
Preview as Slideshow |
| Previews all opened compositions as a slideshow. |
Component Menu
Command | Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|---|
Size to Fit | ⌘ + zero | Resizes the workbench view so everything is visible. This command equals the "Fit in Window" command in the lower left of the workbench. |
Bring Forward | ⌘ + '+' | Moves the selected component(s) one step forward. |
Send Backward | ⌘ + '-' | Moves the selected component(s) one step backwards. |
Bring to Front | ⌥ + ⌘ + '+' | Moves the selected component(s) to the front. |
Send to Back | ⌥ + ⌘ + '-' | Moves the selected component(s) to the back. |
Swap Selected | ⌘ + # | Swaps the Z-positions of the selected components. |
Align… | ⌥ +⌘ + A | – |
Solo | ctrl + S | Hides all components, except for the selected one(s). |
Show All | ctrl + A | If any components were hidden previously, this function shows all components again. |
View Menu
Command | Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|---|
Size to Fit | ⌘ + zero | Resizes the workbench view so everything is visible. This command equals the "Fit in Window" command in the lower left of the workbench. |
Bring Forward | ⌘ + '+' | Moves the selected component(s) one step forward. |
Send Backward | ⌘ + '-' | Moves the selected component(s) one step backwards. |
Bring to Front | ⌥ + ⌘ + '+' | Moves the selected component(s) to the front. |
Send to Back | ⌥ + ⌘ + '-' | Moves the selected component(s) to the back. |
Swap Selected | ⌘ + # | Swaps the Z-positions of the selected components. |
Align… | ⌥ +⌘ + A | – |
Solo | ctrl + S | Hides all components, except for the selected one(s). |
Show All | ctrl + A | If any components were hidden previously, this function shows all components again. |