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This movie will explain the Command Line, finding help in the software, and the Title Bar, as well as the script management area. Below the Time Bar are two more areas, the Command Line, and the Help Line. The Command Line works similarly to the Command Line area of Autodesk's Maya software, but it allows you to type in Shake commands and get around using the Graphical User Interface, or GUI. Regarding the Help Line, if you hover your mouse over just about any area, the Help Line will tell you what that area does. If that's not enough, you can right click on just about any button or parameter to view a pop up menu of all of its options. If you're still lost, that's OK. You can go to the Help Menu, which is up here. This will show you some incredibly detailed information on how to use Shake with a full PDF version of the User Manual, info on new features, tutorials, and changes in features that were added to Shake just before the release of version 4.1 can be found in the late breaking news. Next we have the Title Bar up here. This tells us the current version of Shake, the name of the script that we're working on - mine doesn't have a name, so if it did, it would be just before this hyphen and the proxy resolution that we're using, that is, if we're using a proxy for high res files. In the upper right hand side of Shake's interface is the script management section. Load allows you to load a Shake script. This is not for loading footage files, which is the job of a File In Node. Save allows you to save your Shake script. Undo and Redo are next. Update allows you to choose when the viewer is being updated, and when. We have three options here. Always updates the viewer any time a parameter is changed. Manual - the scene isn't updated unless you click Update, here. Or click the left side of a node in the Node View or press the U key on the keyboard. Proxy, which is what this Base Button means gives you the options based on click holding this button down. Proxies are used when working with high res files and are a means of speeding up the compositing process by using lower res files as much as possible before final output. More can learned about this in the movies about compositing film and working with proxies.