Introduction

The Movie Clip Editor has two main purposes, it can be used for for tracking or masking movies. The empty editor looks like the image below.

Movie Clip Editor interface.

Header

Clip Menu

• Open Clip Alt-O

Controls

Movie Clip

Data-block menu used for add a movie file. Both movie files and image sequences can be used in the Clip editor. When a movie clip is loaded into the clip editor, extra panels are displayed in the interface.

Movie Clip Editor with an Opened Clip.

Modes

• Motion Tracking
• Masking

Pivot Point

See Pivot Points.

Proportional Edit

See Proportional Edit.

Properties Region

Footage Settings

See Image Settings.

Main View

Mini Timeline

When a clip is loaded a Timeline is shown at bottom of the Preview. It expands over the full area limited by the animation range. You can move the Time Cursor by dragging with LMB.

The Timeline is composed of the following visual elements:

• Green line: Time Cursor
• Yellow: Motion track
• Yellow line: Keyframe
• Orange line: Shape keyframe
• Purple: Prefetched frames
• Light green line: Solve start/end keyframe