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Favorites

Written By Clayton Combe

Last updated 6 months ago

Working on a Project typically means reusing the same items many times. Those items (cameras, actors, etc) usually need to get customized in multiple ways: color, label, scale, and more.

So, we've all been on big projects where you're adding the same things to your diagrams over and over again. And this is a great example of it. A and B camera, male lead and female lead. They're in scene after scene. And up until now, it's been a little bit of a drag to add them. You have to go to add item. You have to, you know, bring in a camera or best case scenario, you're bring it in from here. You're renaming it. You're changing the color. You're doing all these things. And this is taking time. It's not fast. And then when you want to go start a new diagram, you have to copy it from here. And then you have to go over to your other diagram and then paste it here. It's not terrible, but it could be better. And that's what we did. So now we have favorites. Instead of having to add the same things over and over again, you have these up here, these quick items that you can add quickly. Now you can add your own. There are a couple ways to do it. one, select an item, you can rightclick and just add favorite right here. It's going to add it to the next available slot. And if you look up here, if you click that, you can see there are nine slots available. We'll get to that. We'll get to why that is later. Um, you can also open the details. You can add favorite there. Or here's the fun part. You can drag it up and choose which slot you want to put it in. I'm going to put this in number one because it's a cam. So now we have a cam and you see that when I hover over it, you can see that's number one. So now I can add it to the diagram just like these by hitting the number one key and it's going to go where I put it. One, it's going to go where I put it. Let's get rid of those. Now I can do the same thing with Bcam, but now that you know they are keystrokes, if you hit command or control and the slot you want. I want Bcam and slot two. Command two. Now it's there. And you can also just drag these in the same way you do other things. So we're going to do the same with this. We'll do three for that. We'll do four for that. And now I have some favorites set up. I can collapse that. So it just goes down to this. And you can see everything about them up there. Now you might say, "Oh, you know what? I wanted to wanted to do this. Let's just call her number one." And I want to change the name up here, too. You can just replace it. So I have this selected. I hit command 4. And now I see it's number one. Go ahead and do that. And now they're just they're so fast to add. You can add them in wherever you want. And you can see that everything about it follows it. The um the name that you give it, the colors that you give it. And what's great about these is that they're shared within a whole project. So, if I go to another scene in the same project, I still have my favorites. And it's going to be so fast to drag them on and set it up. So, that's favorites. Hope you enjoy.

Favorites by Project

Each Project has 9 Favorites “slots,” which start empty, and can be filled by Actors, Cameras, Fixtures, or generic Items. These will appear for any Diagram in that Project.

Assigning Favorites

Favorites can be assigned to slots by:

  • Drag-and-drop from the Add Item sidebar or Diagram canvas, into the Favorites slot of your choice

  • Right-click and choose “Add Favorite” from the pop-up menu, or click the button in the Details sidebar

    • Favorite will be added to the next available slot, since a number is not specified

  • Use the keystroke ⌘ number key to assign to that numbered slot

  • Favorites will save this info about your item:

    • Label

    • Colors

    • Scale

    • Gels

  • It will NOT save:

    • Position or rotation

    • Targeting info

Using Favorites

Add items from Favorites to your Diagram by:

  • Drag-and-drop or click from the toolbar (just like adding a quick item like Actor or Camera)

  • Use the 1 through 9 number keys to add an item where your mouse pointer is

  • Right-click and copy a Favorite, then Paste with a ⌘ V keystroke or pop-up menu