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Deleting Nodes
To delete one or more selected nodes, press Delete (macOS) or Backspace (Windows), or
right-click one or more selected nodes and choose Delete from the contextual menu. The node
is removed from the Node Editor, and whichever nodes are connected to its primary input and
output are now connected together. Nodes connected to other inputs (such as mask inputs)
become disconnected.
Before deleting a node from a node tree (top), and after upstream and
downstream nodes have automatically reconnected (bottom).
Disconnected Nodes
It’s perfectly fine to have disconnected nodes, or even entire disconnected branches of a node
tree, in the Node Editor alongside the rest of a composition. All disconnected nodes are simply
ignored while being saved for possible future use. This can be useful when you’re saving nodes
that you’ve customized but later decided you don’t need. It’s also useful for saving branches of
trees that you’ve since exported to be self-contained media that’s re-imported to take the place
of the original effect, but you want to save the original nodes just in case you need to redo
your work.
Selecting and Deselecting Nodes
In order to work with nodes in the Node Editor in any way, or modify node parameters in the
Inspector, you first need to learn to select the node or nodes you want to work with.
Selecting Nodes
Selecting nodes is one of the most fundamental things you can do to move nodes or target
them for different operations. There are a variety of methods you can use.
Methods of selecting nodes:
 To select a single node: Click any node in the Node Editor.
 To select multiple nodes one at a time: Command-click each node you want to select.
 To select a whole region of nodes: Drag a bounding box around all nodes
you want to select.
 To select all upstream or downstream nodes: Right-click a node and choose Select >
Upstream Nodes/Downstream Nodes from the contextual menu.
 To select all nodes in the Node Editor: Press Command-A.
 To select a node from the Keyframe Editor: Click any layer in the Keyframe Editor to
select the corresponding node in the Node Editor.
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