Introduction

The Movie Clip Editor is used for tracking and masking movies.

Movie Clip Editor interface.

Header

Mode

Tracking

For placing markers in a video and tracking their movement.

Mask

For creating and animating masks.

View Type

Clip

The default view, for placing and tracking markers.

Graph

Plots the movement speed of the markers on a graph.

Dopesheet

Shows an overview of marker keyframes on a timeline.

View Menu

Toolbar T

Show or hide the tab panel on the left for creating and manipulating markers and masks.

Sidebar N

Show or hide the Sidebar.

Adjust Last Operation

Display a pop-up panel to alter the properties of the last completed operation.

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Frame Selected NumpadPeriod

Zooms and pans the view to focus on the selected items.

Frame All Home

Zooms and pans the view so that the whole video is visible.

Center View to Cursor Mask Mode

Pans the view so that the 2D Cursor is in the center.

Zoom

Menu with convenient zoom levels and operations. The zoom levels are calculated based on the images resolution compared to the screen resolution.

• 12.5% (1:8) Numpad8 zoom out to a factor of 12.5%.

• 25% (1:4) Numpad4 zoom out to a factor of 25%.

• 50% (1:2) Numpad2 zoom out to a factor of 50%.

• 100% (1:1) Numpad1 resets the zoom to 100%.

• 200% (2:1) Ctrl-Numpad2 zoom in to a factor of 200%.

• 400% (4:1) Ctrl-Numpad4 zoom in to a factor of 400%.

• 800% (8:1) Ctrl-Numpad8 zoom in to a factor of 800%.

Zoom In/Out Wheel

Zooms the view in or out.

Zoom to Fit F

Like Frame All, but uses as much space in the editor as possible.

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Show Metadata

Displays metadata encoded in the video, if available.

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Area

Area controls. See the user interface documentation for more information.

Select Menu

Menu for selecting markers and masks.

Clip Menu

Menu for loading movie clips and creating proxies.

Track Menu

Menu for performing tracking operations.

Reconstruction Menu

Menu for setting up the reconstruction of 3D information from the tracked points in the 2D video.

Add Menu

Circle

Adds a circle-shaped mask.

Square

Adds a square-shaped mask.

Mask Menu

Menu for editing masks.

Other

Clip

A data-block menu used for loading and selecting movies. Both video files and image sequences can be used. When a movie clip is loaded into the Clip editor, extra panels are displayed in the interface.

Pivot Point

See Pivot Points.

Proportional Editing Mask Mode

See Proportional Editing.

Mask Mask Mode

A data-block menu for creating and selecting masks.

Mask Display Mask Mode

See Mask Display.

Toggle Lock Selection L

Automatically pans the view to follow the selected markers, so that they remain in the same location on screen during tracking and playback.

This option “locks the view onto the selection” and is not to be confused with the Lock option in the Sidebar, which instead prevents you from changing the active marker.

Clip Display

See Clip Display.

Gizmos

See Viewport Gizmos.