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One of the things I really enjoy about Combustion is that I can quickly go from a 2D Workspace to a 3D Workspace by simply clicking one button. Well, let me show you the advantages to working with a 2D Workspace and how you can quickly change that into a 3D Workspace. Once again, we're never stuck. So if you forget to change your Workspace into a 3D Workspace when you first create a composite, we'll go to File, New and don't forget you have this button right here for your Mode. You can change it anytime. So let me show you how to do that. Alright, first of all I have a regular, old composite open, right? So I'm currently in a 3D Mode. So how do I know that? Because a 3D composite always has a light and a camera that you'll see in the Workspace. And we can check that by going to our Output Button and you can see that it has a 3D Button pushed in. So what does that look like? I'm going to zoom in a little bit and I'm going to right click and I'm going to choose a Perspective View. And I'll zoom out just so you can see what's going on here. I have my light and I have my composite and what I can do is I can use my trackball to go around so you can see what's going on here. And I can also zoom in and out or pan or dolly in and out like so, pan around and I can do all kinds of cool stuff in this mode. And by the way, there's the camera. This is really helpful when you want to do complex animations where you have things zooming in and out such as text and you want to be able to have full control over when objects overlap one another. Really, really handy; especially when you want to see things in the distance that are eventually going to come into view and then go out of view again. So you can see them over here. They're not going to show up. Of course they're not actually in the Yellow Boundary, which indicates our Active Camera View. So let's say I don't really need all this sophistication. I just want to do a regular composite that has things going left and right. I don't really need to worry about zooming in and out and all that kind of stuff. I click on 2D and my light and camera go away. But those things aren't lost. They're still there. We just have a different composite here that we're looking at now. So once again, 2D is really handy when you simply want to do maybe some text coming down, where you have some footage of a newscaster speaking and you have a lower third or a bottom third down here where you have some text and he talks about what's going on in the news and you may have some other pictures showing up. And 3D's really good when you really want to have a focused view on your animation and have full control and see the floor and have text over here that's going to zoom in, spin back out and do all kinds of cool things. I typically like to work in 3D Mode so I can just move things in and out, cast lights with shadows and, you know, have all kinds of special effects that you really can't do in 2D Mode. But it's really up to you how you like to work. Keep in mind it is available at all time so if you forget to turn it on at first, never to fear, you can always do it by going to the Composite Controls and choosing to make it 2D or 3D.