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‌Set Color: A pop-up menu that lets you assign one of 16 colors to a node, overriding a node’s own color.‌‌

Versions: Clicking Versions reveals another toolbar with six buttons. Each button can hold an individual set of adjustments for that node that you can use to store multiple versions of an effect.

Pin: The Inspector is also capable of simultaneously displaying all parameters for multiple nodes you’ve selected in the Node Editor. Furthermore, a Pin button in the title bar of each node’s parameters lets you “pin” that node’s parameters into the Inspector so that they remain there even when that node is deselected, which is valuable for key nodes that you need to adjust even while inspecting other nodes of your composition.

Lock: Locks that node so that no changes can be made to it.

Reset: Resets all parameters within that node.

Parameter Tabs

Many nodes expose multiple tabs’ worth of controls in the Inspector, seen as icons at the top of the parameter section for each node. Click any tab to expose that set of controls.

Nodes with several tabs’ worth of parameters

Keyframes Editor

The Keyframes Editor displays each node in the current composition as a stack of layers within a miniature timeline. The order of the layers is largely irrelevant as the order and flow of connections in the node tree dictate the order of image-processing operations. You use the Keyframes Editor to trim, extend, or slide Loader, MediaIn, and effects nodes, or to adjust the timing of keyframes, which appear superimposed over each effect node unless you open them up into their editable track.

The Keyframes Editor is used to adjust the timing of clips, effects, and keyframes.

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