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Click the Scale Viewer menu and choose Fit or a percentage.
Right-click on a viewer and choose an option from the Scale submenu of the
contextual menu. This includes a Custom Scale command that lets you type your own
scale percentage
Methods of spinning 3D viewers:
In 3D Perspective view, hold down the Shift key and drag to spin the stage around.
Flipbook Previews
As you build increasingly complex compositions, and you find yourself needing to preview
specific branches of your node tree to get a sense of how various details you’re working on are
looking, you may find it useful to create targeted RAM previews at various levels of quality right
in the viewer by creating a RAM Flipbook. RAM Flipbook Previews are preview renders that
exist entirely within RAM and allow you to render a node’s output at differing levels of quality for
quick processing in order to watch a real-time preview.
Creating Flipbook Previews
Creating a Flipbook Preview is relatively fast, once you know where to look.
To create a Flipbook Preview:
1 Choose the node in your node tree that you want to preview by doing
one of the following:
Hold down the Option key while dragging a node into the viewer.
Right-click a node and choose an option from the Create/Play Preview submenu in
the contextual menu.
2 When the Preview Render dialog opens, choose the quality, resolution, and motion blur
settings you want to use for the Flipbook Preview.
The Flipbook Preview Render dialog.
3 When you’ve chosen the settings you want to use, click Start Render.
The current frame range of the Time Ruler is rendered using the settings you’ve
selected, and the result is viewable in the viewer you selected or dragged into.
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