Dominant Values were originally created to control the Pixera timeline from external devices like a lightning desk 

What is the difference between a Keyframe and a Dominant Value?

A keyframe stores the value at a specific time. A dominant value ignores the time of the timeline,
and only assigns a value as long as you are working in this dominant value. 

Signs that you work in a dominant value are these yellowish keyframes on the top right from the content, and in the layer:

Example: If you have a running timeline, and you move a slider on a lighting console from value 0 to value 100 in 2 seconds
(this value would move the content from left to right, for example), then Pixera would write 100 keyframes on a 50p timeline in this time. 

 
However, when we work in a dominant value, we do not write the values in the timeline, we just use the current value.

Same example: If you move the slider on the lighting console from 0 to 100, no keyframes are written. 
The last value from the lighting console, in this case 100, is the last value that Pixera will remember as the dominant value.

While you are working with dominant values, any keyframes already written to the timeline will also be ignored.

You can also imagine it as: 

“Dominant Value” - “Global Value for the whole layer”

“Keyframe” - “Local Value just for the clip”

If you no longer need the Value of the Dominant Value, you can delete it with “Esc” and we follow the Keyframes again.

 
If you want to use the Dominant Value as a keyframe, you can do so by simply pressing "S" for Save. 
The value of the Dominant will then be transferred to the Timeline. This is where the NowPointer is currently located.

Pixera 2.0.65 | 11. July 2024 | R.W.