Chapter 5, Getting Familiar with Your Workspace
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Chapter 5, Getting Familiar with Your Workspace |
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The Gate UI lets you access any of the four hidden panels of the workspace. Each panel runs along one edge of the workspace. The Gate UI resembles a compass, and presents up to four gates, each referred to by one of the four cardinal directions.
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| Gate: | Displays: |
| a) north gate | Schematic overlay. You can set the transparency of the background and nodes in the overlay in the Creative tab of your user preferences. |
| b) east gate | Pick List, Tools, or Views tab (depends on the last chosen option). You can drop views onto viewports, add tools to compositions, and access the Pick List--see Pick List, Tools, and Views Tabs. |
| c) south gate | View options for the view on which the cursor is currently paused. For example, if you access the Gate UI when the cursor is over a Player, the south gate will display the Player options. |
| d) west gate | The Composition Browser. |
Press the tilde (~) key or middle-click.
The Gate UI appears.
Swipe north, south, east or west.
The panel associated with that gate appears.
Note: If you press the tilde (~) key or middle-click and swipe simultaneously, the Gate UI is not displayed. If you press the Alt key while swiping, the panel will stay open until you press Esc.
To exit the panel, move the cursor away from the panel.
Similar to the Gate UI in appearance, the Drop Gate appears when you drop a composition or a tool into a Player, Layer Editor, or Schematic view, or when you drop a tool into a Curve Editor or Track Editor. The available options for the Drop Gate depend on whether you are dropping a tool or composition, the view you are dropping it in, and also what node is currently selected in the dependency graph. For example, if you drop a composition on a Reaction node in the Schematic view, the Composition Drop Gate appears.
Do one of the following:
Drop a composition into the Player or Layer Editor.
Drop a composition onto a tool in the Schematic view.
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Swipe through the appropriate option to select it, or click to cancel the drop.
Note: If you drop the composition or tool, and swipe to select an option simultaneously, the option is executed but the Drop Gate is not displayed.
Do one of the following:
Drop a tool into a Player, Curve or Track Editor, Composition Browser (with no composition or tool selected), or Layer Editor (with no composition or tool selected).
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Drop a tool onto a selected composition in the Schematic view or the Composition Browser.
The Tool Drop Gate appears.
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Drop a tool onto a selected tool in the Schematic view or the Composition Browser.
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Drop a tool onto a primary output node in the Schematic view or a selected primary output node in the Composition Browser.
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Drop a tool onto a secondary output node in the Schematic view or a selected secondary output node in the Composition Browser.
The Tool Drop Gate appears.
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Swipe through the appropriate option to select it, or click to cancel the drop.
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