Compositing node

Viewport

Functionally identical to Null (a free pass-through, no processing) but drawn with a large canvas, so you can actually inspect the image at a given stage of a patch instead of judging it from a tiny thumbnail.

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The Viewport node in Infinite, showing its inputs, controls and outputs.

What it does

Viewport is a compositing node: it layers, masks and routes pictures. It takes picture in and gives picture out.

Try it

Drop one mid-chain in a long effects stack to see exactly what the image looks like before the next step touches it.

Effect ChainViewportContinue Chain

Inputs and outputs

Inputs

picture in

Outputs

picture out

Example patch

This patch wires Viewport to what it needs and shows the result. Download it, then use File, Open in Infinite, or read it here: it is plain text.

infinite-patch 1
rev 2
# Viewport: a starting patch for the Viewport node
node 1 Compositing Viewport
  id node
  pos 520 300
end
node 2 Source Ramp
  id in0
  pos 0 300
end
node 3 Utility Output
  id out
  pos 1080 300
end
cable node 0 in0
cable out 0 node