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The Viewports in Combustion are akin to the Stage in Adobe Flash or the Canvas in Corel Painter or even the Canvas that you work with in Adobe Photoshop. This is your Viewport and it's pretty much your window to what you're working with inside of the application itself. As you see when I click on a piece of footage in the Viewport, I can see some information about it. I did not save it, so it says Untitled. I'm looking at it at 50 percent magnification and eight-bit color. If I click on the Plus Sign two times you'll see that I'm now looking at it at a hundred percent. Another cool thing you can do with this guy here is you can right click and choose different things, such as Schematic View. Now, don't be alarmed. Schematic View looks scary, but it's quite intuitive once you get the hang of it. And I'll spend more time talking about this in another lesson. I can also, instead of using this menu, choose to click on the Home Button so I can zoom in and out and I can pan by clicking here and if I wan to go back to the last view, I click on this Left Arrow. That's really handy. So you can navigate your views by going to these arrows. Don't forget, you can zoom in and out with these guys here. Click on Home to select Alternate Views, Pan by using this button or you can click and hold this button and move it around in the same way as you can press the Spacebar and move it around in your Viewport. Let me go to my Workspace here. I'm going to add an operator this footage here, so I'll right click and I'll add a Blur Operator and you see it right here. So I'm going to double click just to go back to my footage here and then what I can do is click one time on the Gaussian Blur and I can click on these buttons here. Now, these buttons will allow you to jump to the operator so that you can see what's going on and then what I can do is look at the controls for that operator. Let me go back to this composite real fast. Let's say I add a Radius to this Gaussian Blur like that and I go back to my main composite. So here's the Gaussian Blur and what I could do is I can click on this button here after I choose my composite and I can see those controls and I can also see what's going on with this. So it's kind of handy to be able to do that. I'll go ahead and hide this effect, by the way, by clicking on this little symbol and I'll double click on my composite to go back. So these are the controls that you will primarily be using. But before we end this, I want to show you something that's really, really powerful about the Viewports and my favorite feature; the ability to see more than one instance of whatever you're working on. For example, I'll click here and I'll choose a 2-Up View and I'll even choose a 4-Up View and I'll zoom out a little bit on this top one and I can right click on this one here and I could go to Schematic View and I can right click on this one and I can go to my Perspective View, which allows me to use my Toolbar and I can pan around in there. And this gives me a huge advantage when it comes to working with my footage so I don't have to jump from one window to another. I can always go to whatever I need to; move things around, change my view and then when I'm finished, I can go back to a 1-Up View if I want to. Nine times out of ten, I use the two or this one here when I'm working. So these are your Viewports. They are going to be your main way to see how your composite's coming along. So just practice a little bit and find the way that you are most interested in working with because you'll still be able to follow along with all the lessons, regardless of which one you choose from this list here.