Preferences

User

Batch & BFX

Apply Expanded Status

Use the Apply Expanded Status setting in the Render / Write File section to select whether clips rendered or added to the Workspace are expanded or collapsed in the Batch Schematic view when they have more than three output sockets.

Note: All clip nodes, group nodes, and most nodes with many input or output socket can be collapsed and expanded on demand using the Expand/Collapse Current Node keyboard shortcut, assigned to Shift + C in the Flame and Smoke Classic keyboard shortcuts profiles.

Render / Write File Node Display option

Select whether Render and Write File nodes in the Batch or Batch FX Schematic view are collapsed or expanded by default.

Show Node Indicators

The Show Keyframes setting has been renamed to Show Node Indicators since an indicator for nodes that output at least one metadata channel has been added.

Show Node Details

The Show Indicators setting has been renamed to Show Node Details.

Players & Monitoring

Annotations Font

Click Change below the Annotations Font section to open the Select Font widget and select the font to use for the text layers of the Annotations tools. The font selection affects all existing instances of text layers, as well as layers to be created.

The current font selection is displayed in the Current Font indicator.

For more information on the annotations workflow, see Annotations.

Tools & TL FX

The Default Reference Name setting has been moved to the Frame Capture tab of the System preferences.

User Interface

Render Effects

The Render Effects setting in the Thumbnails section no longer applies to the thumbnails in the Timeline FX tab of the Explorer.

Project

Video Monitoring

Show Annotations Overlay

Enable to display the Annotations Overlay on the video preview device whenever the Annotations Overlay appears in a viewport or the Player.

System

Custom Tokens

Custom tokens can be defined in the Custom Tokens tab of the System Preferences. They are useful to quickly add a string, a combination of existing tokens, or tokens with pre-defined padding or slicing to text fields where an Add Token drop-down is available.

For more information on the custom tokens workflow, see Custom Tokens.

Frame Capture

The Export tab of the System preferences has been renamed Frame Capture.

Default values for the settings found in the Add Reference dialog window appearing when a new reference is grabbed can be defined in the Frame Capture tab of the System preferences.

These values are saved in the /opt/Autodesk/cfg/grab_reference.cfg file, which can be centralised using the Centralised Components workflow.

Storage

Reclaim Storage Space

Specify the scope of the cleanup when clearing unreferenced media by selecting Current Project or All Projects in the drop-down below the Clear Unreferenced Cache option.

For more information, see Clear Unreferenced Cache.