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Now that we know what we're looking at in NUKE with these different panels,

I'd like to go over some of the different buttons that I've been pressing,

and ways to get around inside NUKE so that we can avoid some of the

problems that first-time users have when they're running around

inside the program for the first time.

So if I'm using the scroll wheel on my mouse, you can zoom in and out.

If you have a three-button mouse, but you don't have a scroll button,

you can hold down the Alt or Option button and middle-mouse click,

and run the mouse left to right, and that will zoom.

If I just middle-mouse button by itself,

that lets you move from side to side, and that works both in the Viewer,

and it works in the Node Graph here.

You can't really zoom in and out of this properties,

but a common thing that will happen is you might be in a

place where this thing shoots way off screen,

or you zoom way far back and you can't see your work anymore.

You'll get this little box in the lower right- hand corner of the Node Graph,

and you can grab this manipulator,

and you can make this as big or as small as you want,

but this is basically resizing itself to the entirety of your work,

and you can click on this box to center on your work again.

So, I mean, this is really tiny because we're really zoomed back,

so that doesn't seem very helpful,

and I wanted to let you know you can hit the F button on the keyboard,

and that will frame any nodes that you have selected,

and that's super helpful to just get back to the default view.

So sometimes people will zoom out, people will go away from their work,

even if you click this to get back to your nodes,

these are very small.

If you hit F, you'll be able to see them again.

So, I just want you to know that as you get acclimated into the program,

there are going to be some times where you will destroy the

interface when you're playing around with it,

and you should know that there's always a way to get back the interface

that you had before without having to close the program,

open the program back up.

I've seen people even reinstall the program to get back to that default space,

but there's always a solution to that.

The F button also works up here in the Viewer,

if you want to frame the Viewer to the size of the panel that you have.

If you have this panel really big and you want to frame it to full size,

it'll always bring you back to the one-to-one,

and that was a good example because when I was hitting F there and

my finger slipped off and it hit the G button,

or it hit the B button, and if you hit the R,

the G, or the B button when you're in the Viewer,

you'll see the red channel, the green channel,

the blue channel.

A gives you the alpha channel, there's no alpha channel in this image,

and so you might have accidentally hit A,

and your image is blank, and you're confused about what's going on,

it's perfectly normal.

You can always get back to it by hitting one of the other channel buttons.

So if you're up here in this Viewer, you don't see anything,

or you're in some weird view,

you can generally just hit the G button to get the green channel,

hit the G button again, and you're back to your normal image,

and that's a very easy mistake to make, and I made it a lot getting started,

you'll make it a lot.

I just want you to know you can always get back to default in an easy way.

Likewise, if you are in a workspace that you've completely convoluted,

let's bring up some, like a Dope Sheet here,

let's get a, we've just got a really,

let's pretend we've got a really messed up workspace,

and we want to get back to normal, you can always,

always, always go back to this workspace,

hit Reset Workspace, and it will bring you back to the defaults.

Just know that you're not destroying any of your work,

NUKE is designed to be non-destructive both in its workspace

and in the way that it deals with images.