Viewport Features Reference
This section describes the mouse actions that can be performed within
various display windows. There are separate major sections for the graph editor
and the
perspective view.
Most windows use the middle mouse button—pushing on the scroll wheel—to
pan. This can be difficult on trackballs or on Mac OSX with Microsoft's
Intellipoint mouse driver installed. There is a preferences setting, No
middle-mouse button, that you can enable to use ALT/Command-Left-drag
to pan instead. When this option is selected, the ALT/Command-Left-click
combination, which links trackers together, is selected using
ALT/Command-Right-click instead.
If you are using a tablet, you must turn off the Enable
cursor wrap checkbox on the preferences panel.
Timing Bar
The timing bar shows valid regions and keys for trackers, roto masks, etc,
depending on what is currently selected, and the active panel. Shows hold
regions with magenta bars at the top of the frames.
Green triangle: start of replay loop. Left-drag
Red triangle: end of replay loop. Left-drag.
Left Mouse: Click or drag the current frame. Drag the
start and end of the replay loop. Shift-drag to change the overall starting or
ending frame. Control-shift-drag to change the end frame, even past the end of
the shot (useful when the shot is no longer available).
Middle Mouse: Drag to pan the time bar left and
right.
Middle Scroll: Scroll the current time. Shift-scroll to
zoom the time bar.
Right Mouse: Horizontal drag to pan time bar, vertical
drag to zoom time bar. Or, right click cancels an ongoing left or middle-mouse
operation.
Camera Window
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-click to include
or exclude a tracker from the existing selection set. Drag to lasso 2-D
trackers, control-drag to lasso both the 2-D trackers and any 3-D points.
ALT-Left-Click (Mac: Command-Left-Click) to link to a tracker, when the Tracker
3-D panel is displayed. 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). Or, drag a tracker's size or search region handles.
Middle Mouse Scroll: Zoom in and out about the cursor.
(See mouse preferences discussion above.)
Right Mouse: Drag vertically to zoom. Or, cancel a left
or middle button action in progress.
Tracker Interior View (on the Tracker Control
Panel)
Left Mouse: Drag the tracker location.
Middle Scroll: Advance the current frame, tracking as you
go.
Right Mouse: Add or remove a position key at the current
frame. Or, cancel a drag in progress.
3-D Viewport
Left Mouse: Click and Drag repeatedly to create an
object, when the 3-D Panel's Create button is lit. ALT-Left-Click (Mac:
Command-Left-Click) to link to a tracker, when the Tracker 3-D panel is
displayed. Drag a lasso to select multiple trackers. Or, move, rotate, or scale
an object, depending on the tool last selected on the 3-D Panel.
Middle Mouse: Drag to pan the viewport. (See mouse
preferences discussion above.)
Middle Scroll: Zoom the viewport.
Right Mouse: Drag vertically to zoom the viewport. Or,
cancel an ongoing left or middle-mouse operation.
Constrained Points Viewport
Left Mouse: Click to select a tracker. Shift-drag to add
trackers to the selection set. Control-click to invert a tracker's selection
status. When selected a trackers will flash in the camera and 3-D views.
Clicking towards the right, over a linked tracker, will flash that tracker
instead.
Middle Mouse: Vertical pan.
Middle Scroll: Advance the current frame.
Right Mouse: Cancel an ongoing left or middle-mouse
operation.
