Effects console

Press Ctrl+Space anywhere, and the effects console opens on your mouse: a search bar, and a radial menu centred around the cursor, below it (if enabled).

The search bar

Type, and a dropdown appears under the bar with everything that matches:

• Effects first, compositions after a divider.
• Matching is loose: type gau and Gaussian blur is the top row. The letters only have to appear in order, so db finds Directional blur.
• Enter applies the top match to every selected layer.
• The arrow keys move the selected option; Escape clears the search first and closes second.

The snapshot button

The camera button beside the search field saves the frame you are looking at as a PNG. Snapshots land in a Snapshots folder beside your saved project, or in your Pictures folder if the project has never been saved.

The ring

Not Complete

By default the radial menu is disabled, as it still requires development to fully flesh it out. However you can enable this in the settings.

Every choice in the ring stays in a fixed direction from the centre.

• Flick, or click. Press and drag in a direction and release: the option in that direction runs. Clicking an option directly works too.
• The middle cancels. Release with the pointer still in the centre and nothing happens.
• Escape closes it.

Some options open submenus. Choose one to expand the ring in place, replacing the existing radial menu. Clicking the centre steps back to the previous menu; Escape steps back too, one level at a time.

What is in the ring

The ring displays options relevant to the item you currently have focused:

You have	The ring offers
A Project panel item picked	Add to comp - places it as dropping it on the Timeline would
An effect picked	Enable or disable it, copy it, remove it, add another
A layer selected	Duplicate, add effect, pre-compose, delete - plus New ▸ and Keyframe ▸
A composition, nothing selected	The new-layer menu: solid, text, camera, adjustment, null, import
A node graph composition open	The project’s items as Read boxes, the four Input kinds, the effects, Merge, Switch and Time offset under Compositing, then the drivers
Nothing open	New composition, import footage

New ▸ expands into the same entries as the Layer ▸ New menu, in the same order.

The Keyframe slice

With a layer selected, Keyframe ▸ expands into an option per transform row: Anchor point, Position, Scale, Rotation, Opacity. Choosing one adds a keyframe at the playhead holding the value the property currently has.

A row driven by an expression is dimmed. See Keyframes.

Not the command palette

Ctrl+Shift+P opens the command palette. The palette is every command by name; the console is largely effects and context-relevant options.