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Accessing the context-sensitive help

Accessing the context-sensitive help - Nuke Tutorial

From the course: Nuke New Features Consolidated

Accessing the context-sensitive help

- [Steve] Nuke 8 introduces context sensitive help for nodes, a huge step up from the previous tooltips. Using your browser, it connects to the Foundry's new online HTML help which has the latest up to the date documentation for the nodes, including video tutorials and example scripts. So the old tooltips are still here, but if I go get a node, let's say from the keyer, a Primatte node, and again, if I hover over the old help icon, I get the old tooltip, but if I click on it, I now get the new online HTML help. The first section here is a writeup of the basic purpose of the node. Now, the Inputs and Controls sections here is actually the reference guide, so you get all the details here of every single knob, button and connector to this node. I'll fold that up. Next is the Step-by-Step Guides. This here is actually the Primatte Step-by-Step Guide from the User Guide document. We'll open that, and there you go. And you want to go even deeper? You can click on that and go to the next…

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