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Show Rulers - Show/hide Rulers in the Viewport.

Show Guides - Show/hide Guides in the Viewport.

Ruler Options - Determine how the Ruler's values are displayed:

  • Origin in Centre - Values are 0,0 in the centre of the Composition.
  • Origin In Bottom Left - Values are 0,0 in the bottom left corner of the Composition.
  • Use Pixels - Display values as pixels.
  • Use Percentage - Display values as a percentage of the Composition's width/height.

Show Grid - Show/hide the Grid in the Viewport.

Show Pixel Grid - Show/hide the Pixel Grid in in the Viewport. The Pixel Grid will only appear at certain zoom levels depending on the size of the current Composition.

Show Composition Boundary - Show/hide the Composition Boundary. When enabled, a white border will be drawn around the Composition Boundary.

Show Layer Names on Hover - Show/hide Layer names for Pre-Selection Highlighting.

Show Viewport Tool Help - Show/hide the Viewport help overlay. It's also possible to use the checkbox in the Tool Settings window.

Viewport Quality - Set which features are rendered by the Viewport. This can be used to increase playback speed where required. Note - this setting does not affect final rendering which should be set in the Render Manager via the Render Quality setting. Note that this setting will revert to High between sessions or when opening new Scenes.

  • Highest (macOS only) - Use multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA).
  • High - Full quality using standard anti-aliasing.
  • Low - Removes Anti-aliasing and any Image Filtering (see Image Shader).
  • Lowest - As per Low but also removes any Filters and Shaders.

Draw Outside Composition Boundary - Enable/ disable the display of Shapes beyond the edges of the Composition.

Draw Debug Information - Display useful information in the Viewport for the selected Shapes.

Snapping - Enable/ disable Viewport snapping.

Show Snapshot - Choose which saved Snapshot to show in the Viewport. Use Option/Alt + SnapShotNumber as a keyboard shortcut.

Save Snapshot - Save a Snapshot of the Viewport's current state to a slot.

Remove Snapshot - Remove a Snapshot from a slot. Saving a Snapshot to a slot will also overwrite any existing one.

Clear All Snapshots - Remove the Snapshots from all slots.

Zoom In - Step the Viewport zoom in.

Zoom Out - Step the Viewport zoom out.

Zoom - Set the zoom level for the Viewport.

Enter Full Screen - put the app into Full Screen mode.