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A node tree for doing a simple rotoscoping job.
As seen in the screenshot above, you’ll want to load the upstream MediaIn or Loader node into
a viewer while the Polygon node is selected for editing in order to see the full image you’re
rotoscoping while keeping the Polygon node’s spline visible.
Viewed Nodes When You First Open Fusion
When you first open the Fusion page in DaVinci Resolve, the output of the current empty
composition (the MediaOut1 node) is usually showing in viewer 2. If you’re in Dual-viewer mode,
viewer 1 remains empty until you assign a node to one of them.
When you first open Fusion Studio with an empty comp, both viewers remain empty even after
reading in media using a Loader node. The viewers only display content when you assign a
node to one of them.
There are several different ways to display a node in a viewer. Which ones you use depends on
how you like to work.
Node View Indicators
The View indicators are displayed under each node, and serve two purposes. First, they’re a
clickable interface for displaying a node’s output in one of the viewers. Second, they’re an
indication of which nodes in the Node Editor are being viewed. By default, there are two round
indicators, representing the two viewers. The left and right indicators correspond to the left and
right viewers, regardless of whether both viewers are visible or just one.
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