Matt Watts’ Toon Boom Harmony Preferences and Intro Shortcuts

These are all the preferences I use on my PC in Toon Boom Harmony Premium 20. I also explain how to fix some issues you may run into if you have built projects without these preferences. The settings are optimized for Toon Boom Harmony Rigging of Cut-Out Animation character puppets. To skip the video and just get the preferences, you can download them here: Contents: 00:00:00- Intro 00:00:25- Gumroad Downloads. Download the pdf of Matt’s preferences. 00:01:29- Setting Preferences in Harmony. All customized preferences explained in detail 00:01:47- General: Auto-Save. 00:02:36- General: Focus on Mouse Enter. 00:03:16- General: Flat Tool Toolbar. 00:04:56- General: Default Separate Position for Pegs. See 00;28;26;07 for explanation 00:05:12- General: Stop-Motion Keyframes. 00:05:37- General: Default Pass-Through Composite. 00:08:43- General: Levels of Undo. 00:08:55- General: Undoable Selections. 00:09:53- Camera: Initial Animation Mode Off. 00:10:14- Node View: Middle Mouse Button Pans the View: UNCHECK. 00:11:57- Exposure Sheet: Filtering. 00:13:06- Exposure Sheet: Use Current Frame as Drawing Name. 00:13:55- Drawing: Brush Size Cursor. Also I show you how to use O to resize the brush on-screen instead of using sliders. 00:15:21- Drawing: Auto-Gap Closing. 00:15:36- Drawing: Default Multiwheel Colour Picker. 00:16:05- Timeline: Reduce Indentation. 00:16:44- Timeline: Overwrite Exposures and Keyframes During Drag and Drop. 00:18:08- OpenGL: Full Scene Antialiasing. 00:18:48- OpenGL: Enable composite passthrough for all effects. 00:20:57- Advanced: Support Overlay and Underlay Arts. 00:22:08- Advanced: Element Node “Animate Using Animation Tools“ Default Value. 00:24:56- Adjusting Drawing Layers to NOT Accept Keyframes. 00:27:31- Selecting All Layers Inside a Group by Holding Alt or Option. Also, how to use Set Properties on Many Layers in the Node View. 00:28:26- General: Default Separate Position for Pegs- Position: 3D Path vs. Separate. 00:35:23- Keyboard Shortcuts. 00:37:29- Shortcuts: Create Backdrop. 00:38:00- Shortcuts: Mark Current Frame. 00:38:30- Shortcuts: Pencil Tool (Write on Screen). 00:39:47- Shortcuts: Pencil Editor Tool. 00:40:19- Shortcuts: PC vs. Mac Modifier Keys, Alt/Option, Control/Command. 00:41:40- Shortcuts: Pencil Editor Tool (Width). Explanation of Brush strokes vs. Pencil strokes 00:43:09- Shortcuts: Show Current Deformers. 00:43:25- Shortcuts: Merge Pencil Lines (“Join Pencil Lines“). 00:44:50- Shortcuts: Delete Selected Drawings. 00:46:22- Drawing Substitutions View Edit Mode Demo. 00:47:01- Shortcuts: Cable Cutter. 00:47:50- Shortcuts: Toggle Playback. 00:49:36- Matt’s Full Set of Shortcuts (as of Oct 2021). 00:50:09- Copy or Migrate Toon Boom Harmony Settings from One Computer to Another.. 00:53:28- Preferences: Restore All Defaults- WARNING!. 00:54:13- When setting preferences, only have one instance of Harmony open at a time.. 00:56:20- Help Documentation: Location of File Preferences.