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.

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Movie Clip Editor interface.

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