Project Settings
The dialog that defines the project you have open: canvas size, frame rate, frame count, Pixel Mode and Motion Blur.
File ▸ Project Settings… opens a small modal with every setting that belongs to the project itself, rather than to a tool or to Celas Studio as a whole. It is greyed out until a project is open: with nothing open there is nothing for it to edit.
Every field in the dialog applies together. Press OK and the whole set of changes lands as one undo step; press Cancel and none of them do. There is no live preview while the dialog is open.
Canvas size and frame rate
| Setting | Range | Default | What changing it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Width | 1 to 7680 px | 1920 | Sets the canvas width in pixels |
| Height | 1 to 4320 px | 1080 | Sets the canvas height in pixels |
| FPS | 1 to 120 | 24 | Sets the frame rate the timeline plays and exports at. Frame numbers do not shift, so the same range of frames simply plays back faster or slower afterwards |
Frame count and the construction frame
Frames is the number of frames you can animate on, from 1 to 99999. The dialog shows this as one fewer than the project actually holds, because frame 0 (the construction frame, where Edit mode works) never counts as an animated frame. OK adds it back in when it saves, and clamps the current frame into the new range if the project just got shorter.
Under the field, a Duration readout converts Frames and FPS into seconds as you type, so you can judge length in real time rather than in frame counts.
Pixel Mode
| Setting | Range | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Pixel Mode | On or off | Off |
| Pixel Size | 1 to 512 px, shown only when Pixel Mode is on | 10 |
Turning Pixel Mode on adds a Vector / Pixel switch to the toolbar, which stays hidden for any project that has it off. Pixel Size is how many canvas pixels stand for one art pixel: a Pixel Size of 4 lets you paint at a coarse, blocky resolution while the file still exports at full canvas size.
Motion Blur
| Setting | Range | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Motion Blur | On or off | Off |
| Shutter Angle | 0 to 720 degrees, shown only when Motion Blur is on | 180 |
| Shutter Phase | -360 to 360 degrees, shown only when Motion Blur is on | 0 |
| Samples | 2 to 64, shown only when Motion Blur is on | 16 |
These four values set the project-wide defaults for motion blur; individual layers still switch it on or off for themselves. See Motion blur for what Shutter Angle, Shutter Phase and Samples do to a moving frame.
What belongs to the project, and what does not
Everything in this dialog is saved inside the .cls file and travels with it: open the same project on another machine and you get the same canvas, frame rate, frame count and blur settings. See The .cls project file for what else lives inside it.
Preferences ▸ General has a similarly named Default Project Settings section with its own Frame Rate, Canvas Width and Canvas Height. That copy is per-application, not per-project: it only seeds a brand new project from the Home window or Ctrl+N, and changing it does nothing to a project you already have open.