Menu Reference

• Apple:About Imagefilter: Displays Username.
• Apple:Register
• Apple:Preferences
  • RAM Cache in MB
  • File Cache in MB: The file cache is in the folder of the application and emptied at the end of each session.
  • Disable File Cache: May speed up rendering
  • Render Wait Time: Time in msec to wait before AutoRefresh
  • Interface Update Time: Time in msec to wait before chasing arrows are shown in processing nodes (Trade-off between interactivity and overall speed)
  • Render Errors, Warnings, Profile, Log: Selection of messages to be displayed in the Console window.
• File:New, Open, Recent, Close, Save, Save As...
• File: Page Setup
• File: Print Picture: Prints the current picture of the active node. If the picture is bigger than the page, it is resized.
• File: Print Node Tree: Prints the node tree and a list of the parameters of each node.
• Edit:Undo, Redo: Limited only by application memory.
• Edit:Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Duplicate, Select All: You can copy paste nodes between documents.
  Copy also copies the output picture of the node into the pasteboard, so that you can use it in another application.
  You can also use the keyboard-shortcut command-delete to delete selected nodes.
• Edit:Open/Close Node Editor: You can only edit the active node.
• Edit:Reset NodeResets node to default parameters. The name and the connections are preserved.
• Edit:Select Parent Nodes , Edit:Select Child Nodes: Use them to drag or copy-paste a group of nodes
• Input, Color, Filter, Transform, Time, Composite, Graphic, Plugin, Output see filter reference.
• Input:Capture Now: Capture with the Capture Image node.
• Input:Full Resolution, Half Resolution, Quarter Resolution: Sets the Resolution of the current document. Do not forget to set to full resolution before you render definitely.
• Output:Refresh: Refreshes the viewers manually. Press option to force refresh.
• Output:AutoRefresh: Refreshes the viewers automatically at each change. You can set the waiting time in the preferences.
• Output:ForceRefresh: Clears the Cache and refreshes.
• Output:Render: Renders the selected output nodes.
• Output:Render All: Renders all output nodes.
• Output:Render Current frame: Renders current frame of the selected output nodes.
• Output:First, Previous, Next, Last: Changes the offset. These menu commands are only for completeness. You will be faster using the Home, Left, Right and the End key.
• Window:Console