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To load specific nodes into specific viewers:
 Hover the pointer over a node, and click one of two buttons that appear at the bottom
left of the node.
 Click once to select a node, and press 1 (for the left viewer) or 2 (for the right viewer).
 Right-click a node and choose View On > None/Left View/Right View in the
contextual menu.
 Right-click the control header of a node in the Inspector, and choose View On >
None/Left View/Right View from the contextual menu.
 Drag a node and drop it over the viewer you’d like to load it into (this is great for
tablet users).
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 switching between viewers.
Viewer assignment buttons at the bottom of
nodes indicate when they’re being viewed.
Clearing Viewers
To clear an image from a viewer, click in the viewer to make it active; a thin red highlight is
displayed at the top of the active viewer. 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 the
images from all the viewers is to make sure none of the viewers is the active panel, and then
press the Tilde key.
Viewer Controls
A series of buttons and pop-up menus in the viewer’s title bar provides several quick ways of
customizing the viewer display.
Controls in the viewer title bar.
 Zoom menu: Lets you zoom in on the image in the viewer to get a closer look, or zoom
out to get more room around the edges of the frame for rotoscoping or positioning
different layers. Choose Fit to automatically fit the overall image to the available
dimensions of the viewer.
 Split Wipe button and A/B Buffer menu: You can actually load two nodes into a single
viewer using that viewer’s A/B buffers by choosing a buffer from the menu and loading
a node into the viewer. Turning on the Split Wipe button (press Forward Slash) shows
a split wipe between the two buffers, which can be dragged left or right via the handle
of the onscreen control, or rotated by dragging anywhere on the dividing line on the
onscreen control. Alternatively, you can switch between each full-screen buffer to
compare them (or to dismiss a split-screen) by pressing Comma (A buffer) and Period
(B buffer).
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