Next I will talk to you about our layers and our timeline. Its very important to know your way around this part of the interface. This layer panel is how you control the way your images move. This is were you can see, at a glance, what's going on in you movie. This panel is similar to Photoshop's Layer panel. Each one of these icons to the right of the layer have important functions. if you hover your selection arrow over any of these icons a description will appear on screen:

Lets take a closer look some of the buttons and switches in the layer panel:

1. Animation stopwatch
2. Shy button
3. Continuously rasterized button
4. Visual effects button
5. Motion blur
6. 3D button
7. The hide switch
8. Audio switch
9. The solo button
10. The lock switch
11. Parenting pick whip
12. Shy switch
13. Motion blur
14. Graph editor
15. Current time editor
16. Zoom in time line
17. Work space

Looking at all these buttons and switches can be overwhelming. Let's look at handful of switches that you will find helpful for organizing your layers:

• #7 The eyeball switch- to the far right of your layer. Turning off the eyeball next to the layer determines whether or not that layer is seen.
• #9 The solo switch- The circle icon to the far right of your layer is called the solo switch. The solo switch will isolate a layer that has that solo turned on.
• #10 The lock switch-  is for locking your layers. If you turn it on you can't edit you can do anything that layers it protects it until you turn it off.
• #12 The shy switch- If this is turned on in both of these locations.. Then you will not see that layer.
• #13 The motion blur switch-It also needs to be activated in both of these location, this will enable motion blur.