Settings & customisation
Window → Customize… — six tabs: Shortcuts, Workspaces, Appearance, Audio, Files and AI Engine.
Shortcuts
Rebind, disable or reset any command’s key, with live conflict warnings as you type a chord.
- Rebinds persist and re-apply through the shortcut manager on the next launch.
- Every shortcut is rebindable, including the tool keys and the command palette itself.
- The defaults follow After Effects’ toolbar keys.
- Tools that ship without a key — Pencil, Brush, Polygon, Star, the mask tools — are listed too, so they can be given one.
Chords never fire while focus is in a text input — with the deliberate exception of the command palette, which owns its own listener.
Shortcuts resolve most-recently-registered first. That is how the camera tool’s Esc wins while the tool is active and falls through to Deselect the rest of the time.
Workspaces
- Apply a layout preset.
- Save the current layout as a preset.
- Delete your own presets.
The layout is JSON-serialisable, so a workspace preset captures the whole arrangement — which panels are docked where, tab order, and split sizes.
Window ▸ Workspace ▸ Reset Layout returns to the defaults without touching your saved presets; the same menu lists the saved layouts and holds Save Layout as…. The built-in workspaces open the panels their job needs — the Animation workspace opens Graph and Rigging, the Color workspace opens Scopes.
Worth building: a blocking workspace with the Layers panel and viewport large and the timeline small, and an animating workspace with the timeline and graph editor tall.
Appearance
- Accent colour.
- Theme — also on Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + K.
- Download updates automatically — on by default on Windows. Turn it off and this row offers a Download button when a version is available instead. See Updates.
- Video Export — the FFmpeg that writes MP4, WebM, MOV and GIF files. It ships with the app; this row says whether it is Working and which copy is in use, re-checks it, and offers Fix… when it is missing or broken. See ffmpeg & codecs.
- AI Object Matte Model — the local model behind one-click subject selection. If it is missing when you use it, the message offers Download model (about 14 MB, once).
- Share Usage Data (installers only) — which features you use and what goes wrong; never your projects, file names, text or media.
Audio
Choose which output device previews play through, and trade latency for stability on a busy machine. The tab also reports the sample rate the audio device is running at. See Audio.
Files
Autosave — a crash-recovery snapshot of the open project, written in the background while there are unsaved edits. It never replaces Save: the unsaved dot stays until you save for real. You choose the interval (30 seconds, 1, 2 or 5 minutes, or a custom value), how many snapshots to keep, and the location; the tab shows when the last autosave happened. See History, versions & recovery.
AI Engine
Connect your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini account. See Connecting a provider.
Popping panels out
Not in the Customize dialog, but part of the same story: any panel can be popped out into its own window (Pop Out into Window in the panel’s header menu), and the pop-out stays live-synced with the editor. A popped-out viewport is its own live view: the engine renders it in real time, alongside the main viewport, with its own size and zoom.
On a two-monitor setup the usual arrangement is the viewport on the main screen with the timeline and graph editor on the second.