Work with the Flowchart panel
In each composition’s flowchart, individual boxes (or tiles) represent each composition, footage item, and layer. Directional arrows represent the relationships between components.
Note: The
Flowchart panel shows you only the existing relationships. You cannot
use it to change relationships between project elements.
Nested compositions and other elements that make up the composition appear when you expand a composition tile.
Mid-gray lines between tiles in the flowchart indicate that the Video or Audio switch for those items is deselected in the Timeline panel. Black or light gray lines indicate that the switch is selected, depending on the User Interface Brightness preference setting.
- To open the project’s flowchart, press
Ctrl+F11 (Windows) or Command+F11 (Mac OS), or click the
Project Flowchart View
button
at the top of the vertical scroll bar on the right edge of the Project
panel. - To customize the appearance of the flowchart, use the
Flowchart panel menu and the buttons along the bottom of the panel.
For tool tips identifying the buttons in
the Flowchart panel, let your pointer hover over a button until
the tool tip appears. - To access the context menu for a selected element, right-click
(Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the icon to the left
of the name in the element tile. The icons have various appearances,
depending on the element type, such as layers
and
compositions 
. For
example, you can use the context menu for a layer to work with masks
and effects, or to change switches, apply transformations, and adjust
layer image quality.
Note: When you change element properties in the Flowchart panel, be careful to context-click the icon in the tile, not the name of the element. The context menu associated with the element icon is different from the one that opens from the element name.
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