Selecting Elements

When you’re ready to start choreographing your scene, you need to be able to select the elements you want to change.

You can select elements in the:

All the images at the current frame appear in full-color in the Camera View window. A selected element appears highlighted.

How you select your element depends on the type of change you want to make:

To select a single element in the Camera View, Top View or Side View windows:

1. Select Tools > Sceneplanning Tools > Select to activate the Select tool.

2. Click the element. The selected element appears highlighted in all the View windows and the Timeline window.

To select multiple elements in the Timeline window:

[Shift]+click the element names in the Timeline window. You can then change their scene timing, layer order, and attach/detach them from pegs.

To select all the elements, select the Timeline window and select Edit > Select All.
To deselect all the elements, select Edit > Deselect All or simply click the Select tool in an empty space in the Camera View, Top View, Side View, or Timeline windows.

You can also use the following commands in the Element > Arrange menu to select elements in the Timeline:

Select Parent: selects the element that the current element is attached to. For example, if you have a drawing element selected that happens to be attached to a peg, this command would select the peg.
Select Children: selects all the elements attached to the current element.
Select Child: selects the element attached to the current element.
Select Previous Brother: selects the previous element at the same level as the current element.
Select Next Brother: selects the next element at the same level as the current element.