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‌To add a node to the tree with a Window automatically enabled:‌‌

Choose an item from the Nodes menu that corresponds to the following:

— Node + CPW: Circular Power window (Option-C)

— Node + LPW: Linear Power window (Option-Q)

— Node + PPW: Polygonal Power window (Option-G)

— Node + PCW: PowerCurve window (Option-B)

Whenever you add a node to a tree, it’s numbered consecutively to come after the next most recent node you’d added, regardless of the order in which it appears in the node tree. For example, if you’ve already added three nodes, and then you decide to add another node in between Nodes 1 and 2, the new node will be Node 4, and the order of the nodes will be 1, 4, 2, and 3.

Deleting Nodes

If there’s a node that you no longer need, you can choose to remove it completely from the node tree to remove its effect permanently.

To delete a node, do one of the following:

— Select a node, then press the Forward-Delete key.

— Right-click a node, and choose Delete Node.

After you’ve deleted a node, the node to the left and right of the node you deleted are automatically connected so that the node tree is unbroken. Also, all the nodes in a tree are renumbered after

the deletion of any node, so there’s no discontinuity in node order. For example, if you have three consecutively numbered nodes in a tree and you delete the second one, the node that was formerly number 3 is renumbered to be 2.

Connecting and Disconnecting Nodes

For a node tree to work, every node in the Node Editor must be connected into a working node tree, from the Source input, through each node in the tree, to the Node Tree output. Any disconnected node will result in that clip’s grade being disabled. However, you may find the need to disconnect some parts of a node tree in order to reconnect them in different ways.

To connect two disconnected nodes:

— Click and drag a connection from the RGB or key output of one node to the corresponding RGB or key input of another, and when the line highlights, release the mouse button.

To change the connection from one node to another:

— Move the pointer over the second half of any connection line between two nodes until it highlights blue, then click and drag it to reconnect it to another input, on that node or another.

To disconnect two nodes, do one of the following:

— Position the pointer over the right-hand side of a node connection so it highlights, and click it to delete it.

— Click a link to select it (selected links turn orange), and then press the Delete or Forward-Delete key.

— Right-click a link and choose Delete Link.

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