In After Effects, to open the Preferences dialog, select Edit > Preferences > General (Win) or After Effects > Preferences > General (Mac OS).
The following sections describe the Preferences dialog box and the various tasks that can be performed using this menu.
To open the Preferences dialog box, go to:
Use the following keyboard shortcuts to open the Preferences > General menu:
To restore the default preference settings, press and hold the following keys while the application is starting.
To restore default keyboard shortcuts, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the OK button.
To reset background preferences, follow these steps:
MacOS
Windows
Preferences, including keyboard shortcuts and workspaces, are stored as files in the following locations:
To reveal the preferences in After Effects, go to:
It is recommended that you do not modify the files in this directory manually; use the Preferences dialog box to modify the preferences. For information on modifying keyboard shortcuts, see Modify keyboard shortcuts. For information on managing workspaces, see Workspaces and Panels.
The Library folder in Mac OS X is hidden. See the following article to learn how to access hidden user files on Mac OS:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/access-hidden-user-library-files.html
The following list briefly describes the different options listed under the Edit > Preferences menu, especially those options that are not self-explanatory.
Path Point and Handle Size: Specifies size of Bezier direction handles and vertices for masks and shapes, direction handles for motion paths, and other similar controls.
Show Tool Tips: After Effects user interface tips
Create Layers At Composition Start Time: Layers overview
Switches Affect Nested Comps: About precomposing and nesting
Default Spatial Interpolation To Linear: About spatial and temporal keyframe interpolation
Preserve Constant Vertex and Feather Point Count When Editing Masks: Designate the first vertex for a Bezier path
Pen Tool Shortcut Toggles Between Pen and Mask Feather Tools: Variable-width mask feather
Synchronize Time Of All Related Items: Preferences and composition settings that affect nested compositions
Expression Pick Whip Writes Compact English: Edit an expression with the pick whip
Create Split Layers Above Original Layer: Split a layer
Allow Scripts To Write Files And Access Network: Loading and running scripts
Enable JavaScript Debugger: After Effects scripting guide at the Adobe After Effects Developer Center on the Adobe website
Use System Color Picker: Choose a color picker
Create New Layers At Best Quality: Layer image quality and subpixel positioning
Use System Shortcut Keys (Mac OS only): Keyboard shortcuts
For more information, see Creating layers and Precomposing, nesting, and pre-rendering.
Adaptive Resolution Limit: Preview modes and Fast Previews preferences
Also, see Fast Previews (CS6).
The GPU Information dialog box is available to check the texture memory for your GPU, and to set the ray-tracing preference to the GPU, if it is available. The OptiX version number and the Copy button are available to copy the general information at the top of the dialog box to the system clipboard.
Viewer Quality (Zoom Quality and Color Management Quality): Viewer Quality preferences
Show Internal Wireframes: Shows bounding box wireframes for components of collapsed precompositions and per-character 3D text layers.
Mute Audio When Preview is not Real-time: Choose whether to play audio during previews when the frame rate is slower than realtime. When the frame rate is slower than realtime, audio will stutter to maintain sync.
Motion Path: Motion paths
Disable Thumbnails In Project Panel: Composition thumbnail images
Show Rendering Progress In Info Panel And Flowchart: Preview video and audio
Still Footage: Create layers from footage items or change layer source
Automatic Footage Reloading: Footage that has changed is automatically reloaded when switching back from another application.
Interpret Unlabeled Alpha As: Alpha channel interpretation: premultiplied or straight
Drag Import Multiple Items As: Import footage items by dragging
There is a drop-down menu to choose drop-frame or non-drop-frame timecode for Indeterminate Media NTSC, which applies to imports like still image sequences in which timecode values are not present or are unknown.
Segment Sequences At, Segment Movie Files At, and Audio Block Duration: Segment settings
Use Default File Name And Folder: Name output files automatically
Enable Disk Cache and Maximum Disk Cache Size: Caches: RAM cache, disk cache, and media cache
Conformed Media Cache and Clean Database & Cache: Media cache
Create Layer Markers From Footage XMP Metadata and Write XMP IDs To Files On Import: XMP metadata in After Effects
Use Label Color For Layer Handles And Paths and Use Label Color For Related Tabs: Color labels for layers, compositions, and footage items
Cycle Mask Colors: Cycle through colors for mask paths
Use Gradients: Use gradients in user interface.
Brightness: Brightens or darkens user interface (UI) colors.
You can create a template with your preferred project settings such as color management and folder structure, and use it as a foundation for every new project that you create.
The New Project command provides you the option to open a project based on a template if you enable the New Project Loads Template option under Preferences > New Project and choose a template project. The template project can be an After Effects template project file (.aet), After Effects project file (.aep), or an After Effects XML project file (.aepx).
For more information, see Save and backup projects in After Effects
You can use the Auto-Save feature in After Effects which automatically saves a copy of your project while you work. You can set the frequency of how often After Effects saves your work, and also the number of copies of the project it saves.
Use the following steps to enable the Auto-Save feature:
In After Effects, to open the Preferences dialog, select Edit > Preferences > General (Win) or After Effects > Preferences > General (Mac OS).
Select Auto-save from the menu.
To allow After Effects to automatically save copies of your project, in the Preferences dialog, click the Automatically Save Projects checkbox.
Click OK.
Once enabled, After Effects creates a folder named Adobe After Effects Auto-Save in the same directory as your project file. To view an return to a previous saved version of your project, select File > Open in After Effect > saved version.
For more information, see Save and back up projects in After Effects.
The Sync Settings feature enables you to synchronize preferences and settings through the Creative Cloud. For detailed information, see the Sync Settings article.
After Effects prompt you to migrate settings from a previous version if it finds a preference folder from a previous version and no preference folder for the current version. This occurs when you start After Effects for the first time and when you delete the entire preferences folder.
If you want to migrate settings from your previous version of After Effects, see the Migrating your settings from a previous minor version of After Effects section.
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