I find it extremely difficult to watch people switching back from nodetree to fullscreen , why is that a thing? Is that some ultra legacy stuff where only 1 up view was available?
I come from nuke and i cant ever use 1 up view it makes me dizzy watching others use 1 up, how is that more efficient then seeign the image and nodetree at once?
Also clients constantly beign show a nodetree when the artists switches back is fuuuugly not gonna lie.
I get it a bit when you have like a 14" laptop screen or whatever but otherwise?
I only use the 1-up view because unfortunately as soon as a node is clicked the image is loaded which is sometimes just annoying because it takes a long time, I often catch myself working in my setup that I sometimes touch nodes and just move or clean them up and when the image is loaded it slows me down in my workflow. But I fully understand the point about customers.
I love the way context views work in Flame. I always hit the numbers at the wrong time in Nuke and it fucks up what I’m supposed to be looking at. Flame got that right along with the 1up view.
I think it comes down to monitor arrangement. I find myself going to 1-up view when screen sharing, but tend to be 2-up or 3-up when working by myself. With 2 large UI monitors and a broadcast monitor, allows me to see everything I’m working on without having to switch.
I tend to often mis-type between Esc and ` - so when I want the action schematic I get the batch or visa versa, or worse in Effects it throws me back to the timeline.
But I can totally get that you stick with what you’re used to. Muscle memory above all else. And don’t fix it, if it ain’t broke.
And folks who like 1-up also often tend to like mechanical keyboards. Watching them screen share it’s like endless clicky-d-clack. Would drive me mad.
I usually use 1-up view at 50% zoom (@MLandon you were asking) but constantly switch between 1-up and 2-up, regularly use 3-up for matching 2 context views and schematic, seldom use 4-up.
It was the old Grant Kay videos that made 2-up view popular. Every single tutorial was “go into Action and select a 2-up view”! I think those of us who started back in the SGI days stick with 1-up due to habit and remembering how slow interaction got when you used the multi-view modes, but for me, I like seeing more of my schematic or a bigger view of the image I’m working on.
The few people, who use 2-up, just use it to see the image on the 2nd. But with the broadcast monitor you would now have the same image twice for no reason. Logical move, to make this more efficient, would be removing the 2nd image view and we are back at 1-up again.
I think those of us who started back in the SGI days stick with 1-up due to habit and remembering how slow interaction got when you used the multi-view modes, but for me, I like seeing more of my schematic or a bigger view of the image I’m working on.
