Toolbar & Resize Bar¶
Two rows sit above the main window: the icon shelf (quick access to settings, layouts, panels, and rendering) and, below it, the Resize bar (live editing of the current export's target size and quality).
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Full toolbar area — icon shelf on top, Resize bar below it.
Icon shelf¶
Four groups, left to right, with the outer two anchored to the window edges and the middle two floating evenly between them as the window resizes. Every icon shows a short text label underneath it (added 2026-08-20) in addition to the icon itself:
| Group | Contents |
|---|---|
| File operations (left-justified) | Project Settings |
| Window management | Standard / Compact / Dual / Conversion layout presets |
| Panel icons | Effects, Layers, Color Match, New Viewer, Log Panel, Info, Metadata, Values |
| Render (right-justified) | Render |
Not every panel has a shelf icon — Input, Output, Colour,
and Add Clips aren't on it (Input/Output/Colour are part of every
default layout already; Add Clips is Ctrl+I). All of them are still
one click away from the View and File menus, and every panel
keeps its own keyboard shortcut regardless of whether it has a shelf
icon.
The New Viewer slot on the shelf specifically opens a new
floating viewer rather than toggling the docked Main Viewer — if you
want to hide/show the docked one, that's still in the View menu
(Ctrl+8). Color Match opens the Color Match
Panel (Ctrl+Alt+C). Layers is the
Layer Stack; Values is the Inspector.
As of 2026-08-17, the shelf's render cluster is down to a single Render button — the separate Render Queue toggle and "Add to Render Queue" (queue-without-running) icons are gone along with the standalone Render Queue panel; see Output Panel.
Icon size is adjustable via View → Toolbar Icon Size (Small, Medium, Large) — see the View menu reference. The window title itself lives in the native macOS title bar, centred by the OS, not in the shelf.
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Icon shelf close-up showing the four groups, their text labels, and the gaps between them.
Resize bar¶
Always visible on its own row below the icon shelf. Live, quick-access editing of the same fields Project Settings' Resize page edits — this bar and that page are two synchronized views into the same project fields, not separate settings.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Preset dropdown | Built-in resolution presets (e.g. 1080p HD, 4K master), plus any presets you've saved or that came from a Delivery profile's Resize preset label. Selecting Custom (or editing any field while a named preset is active) shows a modified indicator and a Save menu — save over the original preset, save as a new one, or revert. |
| Width × Height | Target output resolution. |
| Fill & Crop / Fit | How source footage that doesn't match the target aspect ratio gets handled — crop to fill, or letterbox/pillarbox to fit. |
| FAST / ENHANCED | Resize algorithm: FAST is a mathematical kernel (fast, no GPU needed); ENHANCED runs a SPAN AI super-resolution cascade for sharper results at high upscale ratios (GPU recommended, needs the SPAN model installed via Module Manager). |
| Quality | Best / Medium — only shown when ENHANCED is selected. |
| PAR | Pixel aspect ratio (e.g. Square — 1.0 for standard, non-square values for anamorphic). |
| Filter | The resize/resampling filter (e.g. Lanczos). |
Every field except Width/Height/Fill & Crop/FAST-ENHANCED shows its
own label (Quality:, PAR:, Filter:) directly on the bar,
since a bare value like "Best" or "Lanczos" doesn't mean anything out
of context — the width/height fields don't need one since the ×
between them and the RESIZE section label already make their purpose
clear.
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Resize bar with all labels visible — Preset, W × H, Fill & Crop/ Fit, FAST/ENHANCED, Quality:, PAR:, Filter:.
Frame rate is not on this bar — it's a Format/Encode field, not a Resize one, and lives on Project Settings' Delivery page instead.