Interface Overview

New Project: Starts a project wizard for a new clip

Open Project: Open a previously saved project

Save Project: Save the project

Undo: Undo tasks

Redo: Redo tasks revoked by Undo

Select: Selection tool for splines and points

Select Both: Selects both the Inner spline points and the edge points

Select Inner: Only selects the inner spline points

Select Edge: Only selects the outer edge points

Select Auto: Automatically selects between Inner and Edge points

Add Point: Tool to add points to the spline

Pan: Used to pan the footage in the Viewer

Zoom: Used to zoom into footage in the viewer

Create X-Spline Layer: Draw a new X-Spline layer

Add X-Spline to Layer: Draw an X-spline that is added to the current spline layer.

Create Bezier-Spline Layer: Draw a new B-Spline layer

Add Bezier-Spline to Layer: Draw a B-spline that is added to the current spline layer.

Attach Layer: Used to select a point and drag-lock it to another layer’s spline point. Useful for lining up individual splines.

Lock Tangents: Lock the tangents of the point in a spline

Rotate: Rotate selection around the axis of the point you click in the viewer

Scale: Scale Selection

Move: Move selection

Clip to Show: Choose which clip to view from this dropdown

Proxy Scale: Adjust the resolution of the footage for performance

Show RGB Channels: Turns on the RGB tdor view of the footage

Show Aplha Channels: Turns on the Alpha view of the footage

Show Layer Mattes: Toggle on or off to show the mattes. Select from the dropdown to choose the type of matte

Color Layer Mattes: Fills matte with Colour. Decreasing the value lessens the opacity

Overlays: Toggles all viewer overlays, including splines, tangents, surface and grid

Show Layer Outlines: Toggles all spline overlays, including splines, points and tangents

Show Spline Tangents: Toggles spline tangents view. Select from the dropdown to choose the type of view

Show Planar Surface: Toggles the planar surface view

Show Planar Grid: Toggles a grid relative to the planar surface view. You can adjust the number of grid lines under Viewer Preferences (See below)

Show Zoom Window: Toggles the Zoom window

Stabilize: Turns on stabilize view. This centers the footage around your tracked surface.

Trace: Turns on the traced path of the tracked surface. You can adjust the amount of frames to trace under Viewer Preferences (See below)

Preview: Toggles view of inserted clips as well as previews of stabilization in the Stabilize module

Enable Brightness Scaling: Toggles brightness adjustment to work with low-contrast footage.

Viewer Preferences: Adjustments dialog for parameters such as grid lines and trace frames

Project In Point: Frame where timeline playback starts

Set In Point: Set the in point for the timeline

Reset In Point: Set the in point back to the start of the clip

Current Frame: The frame the playhead is currently on. Enter a new value to jump to that frame.

Reset Out Point: Set the out point back to the end of the clip

Set Out Point: Set the out point for the timeline

Project Out Point: Frame where timeline playback ends

Zoom Timeline to In/Out points: Expands the timeline between the in and out points to the edges of the viewer

Zoom Timeline to full frame range: Resets the timeline scale to the full range of frames

Play Controls: Controls for playing back and forth and moving one frame at a time

Change Playback Mode: Toggles tri-state button between Play once, Loop and Bounce playback modes.

Tracking Controls: Controls for tracking back and forth and tracking one frame at a time.

Go to Previous Keyframe: Jump to the previous keyframe set in the timeline for that layer

Go to Next Keyframe: Jump to the next keyframe set in the timeline for that layer

Add New Keyframe: Add a new keyframe at the current position for the selected layer

Delete New Keyframe: Deletes the keyframe at the current position for the selected layer

Delete All Keyframes: Deletes all keyframes on the timeline for the selected layer

Autokey: Toggles automatic key insertion when moving points or adjusting parameters

Überkey: Toggles the Überkey, which modifies all keys in the layer relative to the key you are now on.

Layer Icons:

Layer Actions dropdown:

Group Layer: Groups the currently selected layers. If no layers are selected, creates an empty group.

Duplicate Layer: Duplicates the currently selected layers

Delete Layer: Delete currently selected layers on all frames

Align Surface: Expands the layer surface to fit the dimensions of the footage at the current frame. All tracked data is made relative to this new alignment.

Layer In/Out frames: Settings to change where the layer turns on and off in the clip

Blend mode: Dropdown to add or subtract your spline to the current layer. Invert flips this

Insert Clip: Insert a demo clip to preview your track. You can use one of the defaults or import your own. For preview purposes only

Matte Clip: Replaces the current layer splines with a matte clip.

Link to Track: Which layer’s track to link your layer splines to. Can also be set to None.

Link to adjusted track: Optional checkbox to link the layer splines to the adjusted track of the selection in “Link to Track”