How do you use Action - single or dual pane?

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  • Single pane
  • Dual pane
  • Doesn’t matter/both
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for the GUI, always dual. every time I accidentally swap to single I get lost and mess up. I am, apparently, a robot.

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So true !

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Bigger question is, who uses 2-up in Action and batch? That’s the only way I operate, but I think I’m in the minority.

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I constantly switch. One and two, sometimes 3, rarely even 4.

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Not alone . Not always 2 for me , but most of the time . 3 views not so much , 4 is way out there for my taste

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I’d use it more, but switching from 1-up to 2-up is a fucking disaster in flame.

From what I can tell, the “cameras” in 2-up are independent from 1-up (and other X-ups) which I’m sure makes sense to some workflows, but as someone who occasionally likes to split the screen for context paint/roto reasons, it sucks. I don’t like having to re-find my working node in the schematic, so I only use it when necessary.

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Yeah, agreed. That’s why I was asking who uses 2-up. Flame is not optimized for multi-views at all. It has serious bugs and limitations, and somewhere I have a doc describing all of it. But never sent because I always assumed there weren’t enough people affected.

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Concur. Never quite sure what’s going to pop up in 2-up, and then curse and fiddle to get what I want. Or scopes, they always seem to pick the opposite window I want them in.

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Or scopes are the viewport that’s being sent to the monitor and I go “*ck dum itch” trying to send the correct one while clients watch.

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Same.

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Space-F (I think that’s the default shortcut) will Frame the view to your working node. That helps at least.

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In addition to space-f, Space-A shows all schematic.

Before this, and compasses, navigating large setups was a nightmare…

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I always use the navigator

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Got some things I want to clarify and suggest/remind about the usage of the Layouts in Batch/Effects.

1- The content of the viewports in a multi-viewport layout should be predictable.

The way it works, each layout (1-Up, 2-Up, etc.) remembers its attributes like a viewport’s size, which view is displayed in each viewport and which viewport is selected.

So you must not see it as i’m in 1-Up seeing the Result and if I go to 2-Up I will see that viewport (Result) selected alongside another viewport. The 2-Up will show what was last set in that layout no matter what was in the previous layout.

The catch is that this is saved on a Batch Group basis and is not shared by default amongst all Batch Groups.

2- There are settings in Preferences → User → Batch & BFX → Batch & BFX Defaults that allows you to configure the layout you want by default in a new Batch. One “workaround” you could take if you prefer to work in 1-Up, but would like to occasionally use a 2-Up is to set the default to the 2-Up of your choice so it is set when a new Batch Group is created. The only caveat will be that you will need to 1-Up once it is created if what you really want is to use this layout.

3- I think a lot of people are missing out on one of the most powerful little feature in Batch: the Layouts. Using them, you could easily turn your 1-Up, 2-Up, etc. workflow into a predictable one, making sure that you always have what you want when switching. You could even un-assign Alt-2 from the “2-Up View” keyboard shortcut and assign it to Select Layout 2. For more details, look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nlo5C2I-pE.

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Talking about “viewports” and things like that, has anyone seen/used the new 3D system in Nuke? I´ve heard that it is a “game changer”.