Customizing Your Workspace

Producer's windows are independent and freely positioned. Arrange them to suit the task — one screen for programming, several for a build, or a focused set for live monitoring — and save arrangements as layout presets. This page covers moving, snapping, and saving windows. For the windows themselves, see Main Window Overview.

Moving and Resizing

Drag a window by its title bar to move it. Windows can overlap. Double-click the title bar to fit the window into the best free space.

Drag any edge or corner to resize, in all eight directions. Each window keeps a minimum size so its controls stay usable.

Snapping

Move or resize a window near another window or the application edge and it snaps into alignment with a small gap, so windows tile without overlapping. Hold Ctrl while dragging to suspend snapping, or Alt to resize the window to fill the space between its neighbors.

Focus, Closing, and Reopening

The active window has a drop shadow and a brighter title bar, and is the only one that receives keyboard input. Click a window to focus it.

Close a window with the X in its title bar or Ctrl+F4. Reopen any window from the Window menu, or with its shortcut where it has one: Stage (Ctrl+Alt+S), Assets (Ctrl+Alt+A), Timelines (Ctrl+Alt+T), Devices (Ctrl+Alt+D), Variables (Ctrl+Alt+V), and Cues (Ctrl+Alt+C). Cue Sets, Properties, and Nodes have no shortcut.

Move between windows with Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+F6 (next) and Ctrl+Shift+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+F6 (previous). Alt+Left and Alt+Right step between windows of the same type, such as several open Timeline windows.

Layout Presets

There are nine layout presets, each remembering which windows are open and their positions and sizes. Save the current arrangement with Ctrl+Alt+1 through Ctrl+Alt+9, and recall one with Alt+1 through Alt+9. Alt+0 resets to the default layout.

The same actions are in Window > Layout: the Save Presets and Load Presets submenus (each listing Preset 1 to Preset 9) and Reset.

Set up presets for the phases of your work — for example one for programming (Stage, Timeline, Properties), one for content review (Stage, Assets, a large Timeline), and one for live monitoring (the Nodes window and the Timelines list).

Layout Files

To reuse a layout in another show or share it, use Window > Layout > Export... to save it to a file and Window > Layout > Import... to load one.

Multiple Timeline Windows

Open several Timeline windows at once, each showing a different timeline with its own zoom, scroll, and selection — useful when editing one timeline while watching another. Double-click a timeline in the Timelines window to open it in a new window.

Default Layout

A new show, or Alt+0, arranges the windows as: Stage top-left, Properties top-center, Assets top-right, Timelines below Assets, Timeline across the bottom beneath Stage and Properties, and Devices and Nodes along the bottom-right.

Theme

The interface uses a dark theme, suited to the low light of production environments.

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