Chapter 5, Getting Familiar with Your Workspace
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Each preset has a predefined layout composed of one or more viewports and populated with one or more views, such as Players, browsers, and/or the Tool Options area.
A viewport is simply a container where you drop a view. You can modify a viewport's layout using the Layout icon in the taskbar. Like most graphical applications containing viewports or windows, you can place the cursor over a viewport border and drag to change its size--see About the Taskbar.
You can access all available views from the Views tab using the Gate UI and then dragging a view into a viewport.
Note: You cannot undo a drag view operation.
Hint: If you like to frequently add or remove a specific view to your workspace, you can add it to the Pick List for even faster access.
A view can be a view where you work on or view your compositions, or a browser where you work with files. The following views are available:
| View | Description |
| Player | Lets you play a composition. The options for the Player determine what appears in the Player--see Player. |
| Schematic | Lets you build the dependency graph for the composition--see Schematic. |
| Pick List | Lets you store frequently used tools, views, and compositions--see Pick List. |
| Curve Editor | Lets you work with animation curves for the composition or for individual tools in the dependency graph for the composition--see Curve Editor. |
| Composition | Lets you view and work with all the tools and parameters in a composition in a browser format--see Composition Browser. |
| Library | Lets you browse the folders in the Library folder--see Library Browser. |
| Layer Editor | Lets you add, edit, and reorder layers associated with one or more Reaction compositing nodes. |
| Track Editor | For viewing and editing animation tracks. |
| Import | Lets you create compositions by importing media. |
| Tools | Lets you add a Tools browser to any viewport. |
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| Four views: a) Library Browser b) Layer Editor c) Schematic d) Player |
Press the tilde key (~) or middle-click to display the Gate UI, then swipe through the east gate to display the Pick List, Tools, and Views tab.
Open the Views tab.
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Drag a view to the viewport.
Pause over a view you want to display as a full screen view and press the F key.
In the Player controls, click the Fullscreen button to play the composition.
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The view displays as a fullscreen view. Press F to exit the fullscreen view.
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