Navigating in the Viewer panel

You can navigate in the Viewer panel in the following ways:

1. Press and hold the middle mouse button and then drag the cursor over the Viewer panel to pan the frame. Alternatively, press and hold ALT and drag the cursor over the Viewer panel.

2. Press the middle mouse button or press F to recenter the frame in the Viewer panel.

3. Place the cursor over the area of the frame that you want to zoom in and then press + (PLUS) repeatedly to increase the zoom level as required. Alternatively, select the desired zoom level from the Zoom drop-down located at the top right corner of the Viewer panel, refer to Figure 1.

Figure 1 Partial view of the Zoom drop-down

4. Place the cursor over the area of the frame that you want to zoom out, and then press - (MINUS) repeatedly to decrease the zoom level. Alternatively, choose the desired scale factor from the Zoom drop-down located at the top right corner of the Viewer panel, as shown in Figure art3-1.

5. Press CTRL+1 to restore the zoom factor to full resolution.

6. Press H to fill the Viewer panel with a frame.

7. Press accent (`) to toggle the visibility of the floating Viewer panel.

Tip: You can also zoom in or zoom out the Viewer panel by pressing and holding ALT+MMB and then dragging the cursor to the right or left.

This article is taken from the Nuke Book: The Foundry Nuke 7 for Compositors.