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The Node Editor displaying a node tree creating a composition.
Adding Nodes to Your Composition
Depending on your mood, there are a few ways you can add nodes from the Effects Library to
your composition. For most of these methods, if there’s a single selected node in the Node
Editor, new nodes are automatically added after it, but if there are no selected nodes or multiple
selected nodes, then new nodes are added as disconnected from anything else.
Methods of adding nodes include:
Click a button in the toolbar.
Open the Effects Library, find the node you want in the relevant category, and click
once on a node you’d like to add.
Right-click on a node and choose Insert Tool from the pop-up menu to add it after the
node you’ve right-clicked on. Or, you can right-click on the background of the Node
Editor to use that submenu to add a disconnected node.
Press Shift-Spacebar to open a Select Tool dialog, type characters corresponding to
the name of the node you’re looking for, and press the Return key (or click OK) when it’s
found. Once you learn this method, it’ll probably become one of your most frequently
used ways of adding nodes.
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