- Left Timeline Panel
- View/hide layer, Sound on/off, Solo (layer only visible), Lock layer
- Top of the timeline - depends on layer switches
- Composition Mini-Flowchart - navigate nested comps
- Draft 3D - Renders 3D elements faster in draft mode
- Toggle hide or show only shy layers (shy switch needs to be selected and only hides it in the timeline - not the composition)
- Frame Blending - can assist in cleaning up time effects
- Motion Blur - Click to allow motion blur for each toggled layer
- Layer Switches - Toggle Switches/Mode
- Shy switch - Selects layer as shy layer
- Comp layer collapse Transformations - continuously rasterize. Keeps vector images clear at all sizes
- Quality and Sampling - Draft, Strandard and Bicubic sampling (curved) for better up-scaling results
- Toggle Motion blur - turns motion blur on for this layer
- Adjustment layer - Converts the selected layer to Adjustment Layer with effects added
- 3D mode - turns layer into 3D layer...adding z space dimensions
- Toggle Mode
- Mode - Adjustment layers
- Track Matte - Quick extract based on white or black or alpha channel
- Parent - inherits transformation qualities from other layers