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Zooming and Panning into Viewers
There are standardized methods of zooming into and panning around viewers when you need a closer look at the situation. These methods also work with the Node Editor, Spline Editor, and Keyframes Editor.
— Middle-click and drag to pan around the viewer.
— Hold down Shift and Command and drag the viewer to pan.
— Drag two fingers on a track pad to pan.
— Click a viewer and press the Equals key (=) to zoom in, and the Minus key (-) to zoom out.
— Press the middle and left mouse buttons simultaneously and drag left or right to resize the viewer.
— Hold down the Command key and use your pointer’s scroll control to resize the viewer.
— Hold down the Command key and drag two fingers on a track pad to resize the viewer.
— Hold down the middle mouse button, and then click the left mouse button to zoom in, or click the right button to zoom out. The scaling uses a fixed amount, centered on the position of the cursor.
— Click a viewer and press Command-1 to resize the image in the viewer to 100 percent.
— Click a viewer and press Command-2 to resize the image in the viewer to 200 percent.
— Click a viewer and press Command-F or Command-1 to reset the image in the viewer to fit the viewer.
— Click the Scale Viewer menu and choose Fit or a percentage.
— Right-click on a viewer and choose an option from the Scale submenu of the contextual menu. This includes a Custom Scale command that lets you type your own scale percentage
— In 3D Perspective view, hold down the middle mouse button and the right mouse button and drag to spin the stage around.
Flipbook Previews
As you build increasingly complex compositions, and you find yourself needing to preview specific branches of your node tree to get a sense of how various details you’re working on are looking, you may find it useful to create targeted RAM previews at various levels of quality right in the viewer by creating a RAM Flipbook. RAM Flipbook Previews are preview renders that exist entirely within RAM and allow you to render a node’s output at differing levels of quality for quick processing in order to watch a real-time preview.
Creating Flipbook Previews
Creating a Flipbook Preview is relatively fast, once you know where to look.