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Camera Window
There can be multiple camera views; in the viewport layout manager or the viewport select tab at top-left of any view pane you can find Camera, Camera B, LCamera, and RCamera. These differ only in the way they initially attach to an active stereo pair: Camera B attaches to the other camera of the pair, LCamera to the left camera, and RCamera to the right camera. This allows you to set up complex viewport configurations for stereo tracking that configure themselves automatically. You can also change the object a camera view displays from the bottom of the right-click menu. (Note that right-click menu largely duplicates the items on the main menu that are related to the camera view.)
Note : There is a very extensive additional set of mouse operations for planar trackers, please see the Planar Trackers in the Camera View in the Planar Tracking Manual.
Warning : The camera/object name at top left of a camera view turns orange if the shot being displayed does not match the current active object, to warn against operator confusion.
The camera view can be floated with the Window/Floating camera menu item.
Left Mouse: Click to select and drag a tracker, or create a tracker if the Tracker panel’s create button is lit. Shift-drag to move faster, control-drag to move a tracker
slower (more precisely). While dragging, spot or symmetry trackers will snap to the best nearby location (within two pixels). Hold down ALT/Command to suppress snapping. Shift-click to include or exclude a tracker from the existing selection set. If there is only one selected tracker and it has an offset, shift-drag drags the tracker, leaving the offset marker (final position) unchanged. Drag in empty space to lasso 2-D trackers, control-drag to lasso both the 2-D trackers and any 3-D points, shift-drag to lasso additional trackers. Lasso meshes instead if "Edit/Lasso meshes instead" is turned on. Control-drag in empty space for RGB color readout on the status line. ALT-Left-Click (Mac: Command-Left-Click) to link to a tracker, when the Tracker 3-D panel is displayed; ALT-shift-left to set the link and the distance to the current distance. Click the marker for a tracker on a different object, to switch to that object. Drag a Lens panel alignment line. Click on nothing to clear the selection set. If a single tracker is selected, and the Z or apostrophe/double-quote key is pressed, pushing the left mouse button will place the tracker at the mouse location and allow it to be dragged to be fine-tuned (called the Z-drop feature). Or, drag a tracker’s size or search region handles.
Middle Mouse. Control-drag to scrub the timeline, release control to scrub faster, and hold shift to scrub even faster.
Middle Mouse Scroll: Zoom in and out about the cursor. Control-Middle to scrub the current frame number, control-shift-middle to scrub faster. (See “No Middle Mouse Button” mouse preferences discussion above.)
Right Mouse: Drag vertically to zoom. Click to bring up the right-click menu. Or, cancel a left or middle button action in progress.
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