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This movie will explain how to use the top menu. Starting in the upper lefthand menu, we have the Shake menu, and this is in Mac OS X only. About Shake displays the version of Shake that we're using and the copyright information. Services allows you to interface with different applications such as Text Edit. Hide Shake hides the program. To reveal it again, just click its icon in the dock. Hide Others hides all applications that are open besides Shake. To show them again, go to Shake - show all. Quit Shake quits the application. Next, we have the file menu. New Script opens a new Shake script, which deletes all the nodes you have in your Node View. Open Script allows you to open a Shake script that's already been saved. Import Photoshop File imports a Photoshop file and allows you the option of having separate File In Nodes for each layer piped into a multilayer node or having all of them brought in as a flattened image in a single File In Node. Very clever. Reload Script reopens the script listed in the Title Bar. It's a lot like the Revert option in other programs. Add Script allows you to import a second script into the one you already have open. This is useful if you want to take part of one Node Tree and add it to another. Save Script saves your Shake script and will only ask you for a file name if you haven't specified one already, otherwise, it saves over your previously saved script of the same name. But Save Script As allows you to save under a new name. Save Selection As Script saves the nodes that you have selected as their own script. It also leaves them in the current script. Recover Script is very useful in the chance of a computer crash. It loads up the last script that was auto saved. Auto saved scripts are saved within your users folder into a folder called N Reel. So here I have my users, user name, N Reel - within that is my auto save, and that's what I would use when I'm choosing my recover script. Back to the file menu. Load Interface Settings allows you to load preferences. Save Interface Settings lets you save your Shake settings and your window layout. This is useful if you find that you're using the same Shake layout every time; and by Shake layout, I mean the arrangement of different windows and tabs. Flush Cache is very useful if Shake is running too slowly. It may be because you have too much information; and by this I mean previews, images, flipbooks, saved into your image cache or RAM. Flush Cache clears the image memory. Purge Memory Cache is something that takes care of the memory cache as well as the image cache. Recent Scripts - here you can, at a glance, open any one of the five most recent scripts that you have worked on. And Exit, that would be in Linux only, allows you to exit the program, which can also be achieved using the buttons in the corner of the interface. It's just like Quit. Next, we have the Edit menu. Undo undoes previous commands up to 100 levels. Any changes you make to Shake including changes to Shake layout and zoom are included in this list. Redo allows you to redo something that has been undone. You can also use the Undo/Redo buttons up here in the upper right hand corner of the Shake window. And then there's Find Nodes, if you're looking for a specific node in a mess of a Node Tree, you can type that it and it will highlight the nodes that fit your search criteria. Next we have the Tools menu. This has the same function as the tool tabs with a menu list that corresponds to the tab headings in the tool tab. It allows the creation of nodes based on topic. The Viewers menu is here. New Viewer makes a new viewer in the viewer area. Spawn Viewer Desktop creates a floating viewer window on the desktop, which can be moved wherever you like, such as onto a second monitor in a dual monitor setup. The Render menu - Render Flipbook renders a flipbook of the viewer at the currently selected node. So right now, I have the Mix Node selected so if I chose Render Flipbook, it would render a flipbook of the Mix Node. It also will open up the Render Parameters window, so that you can temporarily chose the Global Parameters for your flipbook. To cancel a flipbook rendering, hit Escape. Render Disk Flipbook is for Macs only. This renders a disk based flipbook into Quicktime, which allows for long clips, audio, and saving of the Quicktime file after you've seen it. Render File Out Nodes - This renders all of your File Out Nodes from your Node View. You can render all your active file outs or all your file outs. Render Cache Nodes - this caches areas of your tree where a Cache Node has been inserted. Render Proxies - this renders proxy files for File In Nodes, leaving File Outs untouched.