MANUAL

Menus

Every menu in Brio's menu bar, item by item, with shortcuts.

Brio's menu bar holds these menus, left to right: File, Edit, Composition, Layer, Animation, Geo Ops, Effects, Transitions, View, Window, Settings and Help.

Mac and Windows/Linux

On macOS the menus live in the system menu bar. A few items move to their Mac homes:

  • About Brio (from Help) and Preferences… (from Settings) appear in the Brio app menu, which also has the standard Services, Hide, Hide Others and Show All items.
  • Quit moves from File to the Brio app menu.
  • The Settings menu itself is not shown.
  • The Window menu starts with the standard Minimize, Zoom and Full Screen items and a Workspace submenu.
  • Edit gains the standard Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All items for text fields after Redo.

On Windows and Linux the menus are drawn inside the app window, and the workspace switcher sits in the menu bar instead of the Window menu.

Shortcuts

Shortcuts on these pages are the defaults for the Brio keymap preset, written with Mac symbols and the Windows/Linux keys in parentheses. On Windows and Linux, ⌘ is Ctrl, ⌥ is Alt and ⇧ is Shift. Where the After Effects keymap preset uses a different key, it is noted. Help ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts… always shows the keys currently in effect.

Items added by plugins and scripts

Effect plugins appear at the end of the Effects menu. Panel plugins appear at the end of the Window menu. Script plugins appear at the end of the menu named in their manifest (the Scripts menu by default; a name that matches no menu gets its own menu).

Tip

Every menu item is also searchable from the command palette (⌃Space), which indexes the menus.

  • AnimationBulk operations on layers and keyframes: offset, sequence, reorder, loop keyframes and loop footage.
  • CompositionCreate comps, change their settings, trim or crop them, pre-compose and render.
  • EditUndo, layer clipboard, splitting, selection, image and SVG clipboard, UI size and easing copy/paste.
  • EffectsAdd effects to the selected layer, or remove them all.
  • FileCreate, open, save, package, import and script projects, and quit.
  • Geo OpsAdd Geo Ops (shape operators) to the selected layer, by family, plus layer-level dynamics.
  • HelpAbout, keyboard shortcuts, the After Effects exporter, script requests, updates and logs.
  • LayerNulls, time links, assets, backgrounds, 3D setups, cameras, lights, primitives, lanes, ordering and shape/text conversions.
  • SettingsOpen Brio's preferences.
  • TransitionsPut a transition on the cut nearest the playhead in the selected lane, or remove it.
  • ViewWireframe overlay and onion-skin settings.
  • WindowShow or hide panels, switch workspaces, open Render and the Welcome screen.