Standalone only menu items are marked with an asterisk.

Creates a new project.

Opens projects.

Opens a browser that lists the available backups by date and time which can then be loaded.

In the plug-in, this option exports the project to an external file. This is useful for when the project was saved only within the host application’s project data.

Projects can be saved by choosing Save and Save As.

You can revert to the last saved version by selecting Revert.

Locks a project so that it can’t be modified and displays LOCKED in the Title Bar. To retain the Lock Project state, enable it and save the project.

Closes the current project.

The last ten recently opened or saved projects can be selected and opened in Recent Projects.

Imports media into the project.

Imports Commotion, Elastic Reality, Shake, or Silhouette shapes.

Exports selected shapes from the project.

Preferences allow you to customize default settings.

Undo operations.

Redo operations.

Cuts the selected object.

Copies the selected object.

Pastes the selected object.

Duplicates the selected object.

Deletes the selected object.

Selects all shapes.

Deselects all shapes.

This is where you can link, unlink and duplicate shapes for stereo rotoscoping.

Links two selected shapes of the same type and the same number of control points for stereo rotoscoping. Linking allows the two shapes to be simultaneously selected and edited in the Left/Right View.

Unlinks selected shapes.

Duplicates a selected shape or a single layer containing shapes to the other view and automatically links it. When a layer is duplicated, all of its transform data is copied as well.

Duplicates a selected shape to the other view, automatically links it and places it in a new layer.

Note: Duplicate > New Layer is not available if you are in the Left/Right View.

Creates a new session.

Deletes the current session.

Selects a session to edit.

Opens the render settings.

Opens the session settings.

Purges the RAM cache. The RAM cache can also be purged by right-clicking on the Cache Display at the bottom right of the user interface and selecting Purge RAM Cache. If selected, currently cached frames are cleared from RAM.

The various Silhouette interface windows are displayed with checkboxes next to them. When the box is checked next to an item, that particular window is displayed in the user interface.

A workspace is a snapshot of the user interface layout. Silhouette workspaces can be selected, saved or deleted.

The composite workspace is displayed.

Optimized for Roto and Paint projects, the size of the Trees window is reduced to make room for the Object List and Paint History immediately below.

The Viewer is displayed full screen.

Only the Viewer and Timeline are displayed.

Only the Viewer and Trees are displayed.

The Silhouette user interface is spread across two monitors with the Trees window displayed full screen on the right monitor.

Saves the current workspace.

Deletes the current workspace.

The Actions menu executes various scripts located in Silhouette/resources/scripts/actions. For information on how to create custom scripts that show up in the Silhouette > Actions menu, see the Silhouette Customization Guide for more information.

Renames selected objects to match first selected object.

Creates a corner-pinned layer from four selected point trackers.

Creates a Motion Blur controller node that controls all other node’s motion blur settings. The controller includes Enable, Angle, Phase, and Samples parameters, with values defaulting to the first motion blur enabled node settings it finds. It then creates expressions for all nodes in the tree that have motion blur parameters.

Creates a tracked layer from one to three trackers.

Sets the colors of selected shapes, layers, and trackers based on the 16 colors defined in the Color > Object Colors preference. If more than 16 objects are selected, the colors repeat.

Converts the selected shapes to Bézier shapes.

Copies one or more selected shapes in a layer as well as the parent layer hierarchy and transforms. Put another way, this copies the parent layer and its shapes and then deletes all unselected shapes.

Duplicates a selected object at the same level in the Object List as opposed to Copy/Paste which places the pasted object at the top of the Object List.

Sets the blend mode of shapes to their parent layer's blend mode if it is not Add.

Mirrors the selected shapes left, right, top or bottom with the option to rotate by an arbitrary angle.

Mirrors the selected shapes to the left.

Mirrors the selected shapes to the right.

Mirrors the selected shapes to the top.

Mirrors the selected shapes to the bottom.

Rotates the mirrored shapes by an arbitrary angle.

Creates a keyframe at the current position which changes the timing of the animation between two surrounding keyframes. Park between two keyframes, select a shape, choose this action or press Alt-K, and drag the slider to adjust the weight.

Selects all keyframes.

Selects all layer keyframes.

Selects all shape keyframes.

Selects all tracker keyframes.

Set’s the Layer > Surface controls to the boundary of the selected shape.

Renders layers to separate files.

Renders all shapes in the selected Roto node, each to its own file, organized by folders based on layer names.

Renders shapes to separate files.

Various selection actions are provided.

Selects all items.

Selects all children of the selected object.

Selects hidden objects.

Selects all layers.

Selects all objects that have notes.

Selects all siblings of a selected object in the current layer. For any selected objects, add all similar objects in that object's layer to the selection.

Selects single point shapes.

Selects all transparent shapes.

Looks at the selected shapes and jumps the Timebar to the first entirely transparent opacity keyframe it finds.

A clip can be shifted in time by inputing both the source frame and the destination session frame. This automatically calculates and sets the Source node’s Time Shift parameter.

Shows the Silhouette version.

Opens the Silhouette User Guide.

Opens the online HTML help.

Opens the Silhouette What’s New document.

Opens the Silhouette Scripting Guide.

Opens the folder containing the Silhouette diagnostic logs.

Checks to see if a newer version of Silhouette is available.

Opens the license tool.