Panels & Layout

The editor is built from dockable panels: Viewer, Node Graph, Timeline, Properties, Assets, Assistant, and Node Preview. Every panel lives in a slot that can hold one panel or several as tabs.

Node Preview (second viewport)

Node Preview is a second viewport that shows the currently selected node's output, so you can compare a node against the full composition side by side — without rewiring anything. Open it from View → Panels → Node Preview and dock it next to the Viewer. See Node Preview for controls, locking, and when to reach for it.

Rearranging

• Drag a tab within its tab bar to reorder tabs in that slot.
• Drag a tab out of the bar and drop it on another panel to move it: drop in the center to stack it as a tab there (an "Add as tab" chip confirms the drop), or on an edge (top/right/bottom/left) to split that slot and dock it alongside. Any panels can share a slot this way — e.g. Node Graph tabbed with Properties.
• Drag the dividers between panels to resize them. Each panel has a minimum size; splits stop there.

Closing and reopening

• Close a panel with the × that appears when hovering its tab. Closing the panel removes it from the layout and gives its space to its neighbor. The last remaining panel can't be closed.
• Reopen a panel from View → Panels. If the panel is only hidden behind another tab, this brings it forward; if it was closed, it returns to the slot it was closed from (or the first slot after a restart).
• View → Panels → Reset Layout restores the default arrangement.

Maximize

Press ` (backtick) with the cursor over a panel to maximize it to the full dock area; press again to restore.

Workspaces

A workspace is a saved, named panel arrangement. The workspace switcher in the top bar (right side) shows the active workspace and lets you:

• Switch — click a workspace in the list to load its layout.
• Save as New Workspace… — capture the current arrangement under a new name.
• Update "<name>" — write the current arrangement back into the active workspace. This appears (with a dot on the switcher) whenever the live layout has changed since you last saved it.
• Rename… / × — rename or delete a workspace (the built-in Default can't be deleted).
• Reset Default Layout — restore Default to the shipped arrangement.

There's always a Default workspace. Editing panels changes the live layout immediately; the change only becomes part of a workspace when you Update or Save it. Workspaces are stored per machine.

Persistence

The live layout — including closed panels — is remembered per machine and restored on launch, along with your workspaces and which one was active.