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When a node is being viewed, a View Indicator button appears at the bottom left. This is the
same control that appears when you hover the pointer over a node. Not only does this control
let you know which nodes are loaded into which viewer, but they also expose little round
buttons for changing which viewer they appear in.
Viewer assignment buttons at the
bottom left of nodes indicate when
they’re being viewed, and which dot is
highlighted indicates which viewer that
node is loaded into.
Clearing Viewers
To clear an image from a viewer, click in the viewer to make it active; a light purple outline is
displayed around the active panel. With the viewer active, press the Tilde (~) key. This key is
usually found to the left of the 1 key on U.S. keyboards. The fastest way to remove all images
from all viewers is to make sure none of the viewers is the active panel, and then press the
Tilde key.
Position and Layout
When you resize and change the layout of viewers in the composition, that configuration is
always saved with the composition. So each time you open the composition, the size and layout
is remembered. You can prevent this behavior by disabling the Recall Layout checkbox in the
Fusion Global Layout preferences.
If you want all new compositions to open with a certain viewer layout, you can configure the
layout of the two primary viewers, and then use the Grab Document Layout button in the Fusion
Global Layout preferences to remember the layout for any new compositions. To save the
position and size of floating viewers, you use the Grab Program Layout button. Finally, if you
want to have the floating viewers opened automatically when you open Fusion, enable the
Create Floating Views checkbox.
The Viewer Divider
You can change the relative sizes of the left and right viewers using the horizontal viewer
divider that runs between them. Drag the viewer divider to increase or decrease the amount of
space used by one viewer. The adjacent viewer will adjust to accommodate the new layout.
The amount of vertical space available for both viewers can be adjusted by dragging the
horizontal scrollbar between the viewers and the work area below them.
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