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Clips: (DaVinci Resolve only): Opens and closes the Thumbnail timeline, which lets
you navigate your program, create and manage multiple versions of compositions, and
reset the current composition.
Nodes: Opens and closes the Node Editor, where you build and edit your
compositions.
Console (Fusion Studio only): The Console is a window in which you can see the error,
log, script, and input messages that may explain something Fusion is trying to do in
greater detail. The Console is also where you can read FusionScript outputs, or input
FusionScripts directly.
Spline: Opens and closes the Spline Editor, where you can edit the curves that
interpolate keyframe animations to customize and perfect their timing. Each keyframed
parameter appears hierarchically within the effect in which it appears in a list to the left.
Keyframes: Opens and closes the Keyframes Editor, which shows each clip and
effects node in your Fusion composition as a layer. You can use the Keyframes Editor
to edit and adjust the timing of keyframes that have been added to various effects in
your composition. You can also use the Keyframes Editor to slide the relative timing
of clips that have been added to Fusion, as well as to trim their In and Out points.
Aspreadsheet can be shown and hidden within which you can numerically edit
keyframe values for selected effects.
Metadata (DaVinci Resolve only): Hides or shows the Metadata Editor, which lets you
read and edit the available clip and project metadata associated with any piece of
media within a composite.
Inspector: Shows or hides the Inspector, which shows you all the editable parameters
and controls that correspond to selected nodes in the Node Editor. You can show the
parameters for multiple nodes at once, and even pin the parameters of nodes you need
to continue editing so that they’re displayed even if those nodes aren’t selected.
Inspector Height: Lets you open the Inspector to be half height (the height of the
viewer area) or full height (the height of your entire display). Half height allows more
room for the Node Editor, Spline Editor, and/or Keyframes Editor, but full height lets
you simultaneously edit more node parameters or have enough room to display the
parameters of multiple nodes at once.
Choosing Which Panel Has Focus
Whenever you click somewhere on the Fusion interface using the pointer or using a keyboard
shortcut to “select” a particular panel, you give that panel of the user interface “focus.” A panel
with focus captures specific keyboard shortcuts to do something within that panel, as opposed
to doing something elsewhere in the interface.
To make it easier to keep track of which panel has focus, a highlight appears at the top edge of
whichever panel has focus. In DaVinci Resolve, you must turn on “Show focus indicators in the
User Interface” in the UI Settings panel of the User Preferences to see the highlight.
EditPageMediaPoolFocusIndicator
The focus indicator shown at the top edge of the Media Pool, shown next to a viewer that
doesn’t have focus.
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