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Status view

- [Instructor] Go ahead and open Composition 2.2 status view. I already have it open here, I have the top clip selected and you see that I have the effect controls panel open in the top left of my screen. We already saw in the previous movie that we could change the view to a status view and that's what we're showing here right now. If you are not showing a status view please click here in this drop down menu and switch to status. And this is what you're seeing right here. The status view is an exaggerated view of the mat and you can use this information to make better decisions regarding choosing a different color or even refining the mat. The important thing to remember, however, is that this is an exaggerated view of the mat, this is not really the mat. So let me go ahead and change this to the mat so that you can see what the mat looks like. As you can see the mat is much much cleaner. Now the status view really helps us tremendously in determining how much we need to refine the…

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