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Right-Side Controls
Save. Button. Clicking this brings up the (mostly obsolete) File/Export/Plain Text/Preferences as Script exporter, which writes a Sizzle script that can restore your same preferences on this machine or another machine. Use Script/Run Script to run the exported script at a later time. Read the description belowand the tooltips of the script's controls for more details. The user_presets.json file and/or the Workflow Presets Manager are the current approach for this.
Search. Button and (search text) field. Scrolls through the preferences, looking at both the preference name and their tooltips for the search text. Matches are shown at the top of the list. Right-click to search backwards. Matching is exact but case- independent.
UI Language. Drop-down. Selects one of the available XML language translation files from the user and system script folders. Takes effect only when SynthEyes starts. When blank (by default), no modifications are applied.
Translate menus. When checked (and after restart), translated menus will be shown.
Note that menus provide much less translation context than tooltips, and therefore the translations are less likely to be accurate or useful.
Translate script names. When checked (and after restart), the system script names will also be translated. These will typically translate less well than menus or tooltips.
Translate much of the user interface. When checked (and after restart), the main user interface will be translated to the language selected above. Caveats above concerning machine translations apply, plus the additional consideration that if the selected translations take more space than English, they will not fit.
Consequently this option can only be used with space-efficient languages.
UI Colors. (Drop-down and color swatch) Change the color of many user-interface elements. Select an element with the drop-down menu, see the current color on
the swatch, and click the swatch to bring up a dialog box that lets you change the color. Right-click the swatch to set the current color back to its factory default.
Shift-right-click the swatch to set all colors back to their factory defaults.
Default Sensor Width. Width of the camera’s active image plane, such as the film or imaging chip.
Sensor Units. Shows in for inches or mm for millimeters, click it to change the display units for this panel, and the default for the shot setup panel.
Post-solve sound [hurrah]. Button. Shows the name of the sound to be played after long calculations.
Default Export Type. Selects the export file type to be created by default.
Folder Presets Section: Helps workflow by letting you set up default folders for various file types: batch input files, batch output files, images, scene files, scripts, imports, and exported files, etc. See the File/ Project Tag Manager to manage all of them at once in an organized fashion, using tags to define a structure.
File type. Dropdown. Select the file type that you want to adjust here. It includes not only the built-in folder preferences, but also specifications recorded for specific exporters via the Keep File Spec button on the Multi-Export panel, or added via the Project Tag Manager.
Browse. Button. Set a folder location for the selected file type. Note that the result of browsing won’t include any tags, so it won’t move around automatically as you change projects—which will be fine if you aren’t using projects, or for things like the Batch In queue, where there can only be one.
Clear. Button. To not have any preset for this file type and prevent SynthEyes from automatically changing to this directory for a given function, hit the Clear button.
(Add filename tag). Dropdown. When you select one of these tags, the tag code will be inserted into the file/folder field at its most recent text cursor location. If text was previously selected, it will be replaced by the tag.
File/folder. Text field. This field says where these kind of files should be located. It may be a full path specification, or it may contain tags that will be replaced with the current information at the time this value is used.
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