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# Studio’s Dynamic User Interface

Before we dig into the details of managing capsules, it’s important to understand how Studio’s interface can change depending on its size and status.

Below (at left), you see Maxon Studio in its “home” state, at the top of the Discover page, shown at nearly full screen (1920 x 1080) resolution. This is with Studio undocked from After Effects. You can drag it around anywhere on your desktop, free from the host app. This is handy when you’re working with multiple monitors, as shown here in a dual-display setup.

Now, if we grab Studio and drag it into our AE control panel, like so…

…then we get Studio in its docked configuration.

Look closely and you may notice how a few things have changed. For example, the page tabs along the left reduced down to their icons, and we now have only two columns of preview thumbnails.

If we click on a capsule in this docked view, Studio’s interface changes into a feature called the Profile Panel, which delves into that capsule’s particular details.

But what if we resize our docked Studio, making it wide enough to accommodate three previews across, and then click on our capsule?

Suddenly, our third column of thumbnails vanishes and is replaced with a compact view of the Profile Panel and its capsule profile contents. From here, reduce Studio’s width enough and the Profile Panel will fill most of Studio’s docked area (as shown below).

Key Studio benefit: Studio’s visual flexibility also applies to composition size. The program’s adaptive resolution functionality lets capsules automatically work on everything from 240p to 8K and beyond — no manual resizing needed.

When the mood strikes and you want to return to having Studio undocked, just select Undock Panel from the Effect Controls Panel (ECP) under the Maxon Studio tab menu.

All of the above should drive home two points:

1. Studio’s user interface (UI) is flexible, and you should make use of its plasticity as your system's application environment shifts around during use.
2. If you’re starting out with Studio, don’t panic if the UI changes a bit with resizing. Just experiment, get comfortable with those changes, and use them for greater productivity.