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Hiding Inspector Controls
If you like, Inspector parameters for specific nodes can be hidden so they never appear, even
when that node is selected. This can be useful for preventing accidental changes by you or
other compositors who may be working on a composition in situations where you don’t want to
lock the node.
To Toggle the Inspector controls for a node or or off:
 Right-click on the node in the Node Editor, or on the Inspector header, and choose
Modes > Show Controls from the contextual menu.
Using the Inspector Header
When you select a node, it populates the Inspector with a title bar, or Inspector header, that
displays that node’s name as well as other controls that govern that node. A node’s Inspector
header itself has a variety of controls, but clicking (or double-clicking) on an Inspector header
also exposes that node’s parameters.
A node’s Inspector header.
When you select multiple nodes at once, you’ll see multiple headers in the Inspector. By default,
only the parameters for the active node (highlighted orange in the Node Editor) can be opened
at any given time, although you can change this behavior in Fusion’s Preferences.
Selecting and Viewing Nodes in the Inspector
Inspector headers are click targets for selecting nodes, opening and closing node parameters,
and other things.
Methods of using headers:
 To select a node using the Inspector header: When multiple nodes are selected, you
can make a node the active node by clicking its Inspector header in the Inspector. As
the actively selected node, the Inspector header and the corresponding node in the
Node Editor are highlighted orange, and its parameters are exposed.
 To load a node into the viewer using the Inspector header: You can view a node by
dragging its header into one of the viewers.
 To view a node’s splines with the control header: If you want to view the animated
curves of a node in the Spline Editor, you can add them by dragging the Inspector
header into the Spline Editor. All animated splines for the parameters of that node will
automatically be displayed.
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