
AFTER EFFECTS CS3
User Guide
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• Disable Thumbnails In Project Panel: “Work with composition thumbnail images” on page 111
• Auto-zoom When Resolution Changes: “Resolution” on page 128
• Show Rendering Progress In Info Panel & Flowchart: “Preview video and audio” on page 120
• Hardware Accelerate Composition, Layer, And Footage Panels: “Improve performance” on page 41
Import
• Still Footage: “Create layers from footage items” on page 135
• Sequence Footage: “Import a single still image or a still-image sequence” on page 81
• Interpret Unlabeled Alpha As: “Specify alpha channel interpretation” on page 52
• Default Drag Import As: “Import footage items” on page 50
Output
• Overflow Volumes, Segment Sequences At, Segment Movie Files At, and Audio Block Duration: “Overflow
volumes and segment settings” on page 629
Grids & Guides
• Safe Margins: “Work with safe zones, grids, guides, and rulers” on page 130
Label Colors and Label Defaults
• Label Colors and Label Defaults: “Work with color labels” on page 149
Memory & Cache
• Maximum Memory Usage, Maximum RAM Cache Size, Enable Disk Cache, and Maximum Disk Cache Size:
“Memory & Cache preferences” on page 39
• Conformed Media Cache and Clean Database & Cache: “Work with the media cache” on page 67
• Prevent DLL Address Space Fragmentation (Windows only): “Memory & Cache preferences” on page 39
Video Previews
• Output Device, Output Mode, Output Quality, Output During, and Scale And Letterbox Output To Fit Video
Monitor: “Preview on an external video monitor” on page 126
User Interface Colors
• Cycle Mask Colors: “Control mask path color” on page 260
• User Interface Brightness: “Brighten or darken the interface” on page 18
Auto-Save
• Automatically Save Projects and Maximum Project Versions: “Save and back up projects” on page 24
Multiprocessing
• Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously: “Render multiple frames simultaneously” on page 40
Audio Hardware and Audio Output Mapping
• Audio Hardware and Audio Output Mapping: “Preview video and audio” on page 120
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