User Preferences

User Preferences  |  Cinema/Viewers  |  Layouts

Many user preferences are available that control the look and feel of the PFTrack interface, including user interface colors, window layours and keyboard shortcuts.

Preferences can be edited in the User Dashboard. After changing any preferences, make sure to click the Save Preferences button to apply the changes and store your preferences in your user account.

Keyboard and mouse preferences are available here.

User preferences

Number of undo levels:

The number of undo levels that PFTrack stores. Increasing this number gives a larger undo history but may come at the cost of increased memory usage (Default value: 5).

Manipulator size %:

The size of translate, rotate and scale manipulators which can be increased or decreased in size (Default value: 100).

Tracker keyboard nudging distance %:

The distance a tracker is moved when nudging it with the keyboard shortcuts. Value is a percentage of the tracking window size (Default value: 2.5).

Scrub bar colour for processed frames

This option can be used to change the colour of processed or tracked frames in the scrub bar and Coverage panels.

Scrub bar colour for unprocessed frames

This option can be used to change the colour of unprocessed or untracked frames in the scrub bar and Coverage panels.

Use OS native file browser for loading media:

When selected, the operating system native file browser is used when loading media such as movie clips and image sequences.

The advantages of this are that shortcuts to items such as My Computer and Desktop are present and they are more convenient for accessing shared network drives.

Use OS native file browser for loading other files:

When selected, operating system native file browsers are used where ever possible, for example, when selecting a new project path or exporting an XML preset file.

Allow delete of input nodes that still contain linked media

When enabled, input nodes containing media can be deleted without first removing the media from the node (Default: disabled)

Enable calculator icon for numeric entries:

If selected, a calculator icon is displayed in some numeric entries fields. Clicking on this icon brings up a calculator interface where values may be entered using a mouse or pen and calculations performed. The calculator functionality can also be accessed using the context menu popup by right-clicking in the numeric entries field itself.

Cinema/Viewers

The Cinema/Viewers section controls various aspects of the Cinema and Viewer windows.

Tracking point display type:

The method used to draw trackers in the Cinema window.

Options are:

- Dot: Display using a single dot centred at the tracker position

- Cross: Display a cross with its centre at the tracker position

- Triangle: Display a triangle where the top-most corner is located at the tracker position.

Default value: Dot.

Ground Plane Line Thickness:

This parameter controls the thickness of lines used to display the ground plane.

Default value: 1.0

Dense Point Cloud Proxy:

This parameter can be used to adjust the number of points used when rendering proxy versions of any dense point clouds. This occurs when interacting with the Cinema or Viewer windows, and reducing this value may improve overall rendering performance whilst interacting.

Default value: 500000

Update Cinema on Drag:

This controls what is displayed in the Cinema when dragging the playback head in the scrub bar.

Options are:

- Full Update: Display the clip at every frame

- Frame Number: Display. the frame number at every frame but not the clip (once dragging of the playhead ceases, the clip is displayed at the new position).

Changing this setting can aid interactivity when scrubbing if the clip and/or its nodes are time consuming to render.

Default value: Full update.

Enable Alt/Option key for User Track window adjustments

When enabled, the Alt/Option must be held in order to adjust the window size of any manually generated trackers. Switching this off will allow the tracker position or window size to be adjusted using the left mouse button alone. (Default: enabled).

Cinema Background Color:

The background colour of the Cinema. Click the coloured button to bring up a colour selection widget in order to specify a new colour (Default value: Black).

Viewer Background Color:

The background colour of the Viewer windows. Click the coloured button to bring up a colour selection widget in order to specify a new colour (Default value: Black).

Tracker colour:

The base colour of trackers displayed in the Cinema window. Click the coloured button to display a colour selection widget (Default value: yellow).

Tracker colour (selected):

The colour of selected trackers displayed in the Cinema window. Click the coloured button to display a colour selection widget (Default value: cyan).

Tracker colour (un-solved):

The base colour of un-solved trackers displayed in the Cinema window. Click the coloured button to display a colour selection widget (Default value: purple).

Tracker colour (bad):

The colour of trackers that do not match their tracking location in the Cinema window. Click the coloured button to display a colour selection widget (Default value: red).

Tracker colour (okay):

The colour of trackers that match their tracking location fairly well in the Cinema window. Click the coloured button to display a colour selection widget (Default value: orange).

Tracker colour (good):

The colour of trackers that match their tracking location very well in the Cinema window. Click the coloured button to display a colour selection widget (Default value: green).

Tracker colour (error):

The colour of the error line drawn between a tracker location and its projection in a Camera Solver node. Click the coloured button to display a colour selection widget (Default value: red).

Tracker colour (missing):

The colour of trackers that are displayed in the Cinema window but have not been tracked in the current frame. Click the coloured button to display a colour selection widget (Default value: white)/

Layouts

The Layouts section can be use to create and manage window layouts in the Workspace.

To store the current layout, click the Store button and enter a new name for the layout. Pressing the Enter key will store the layout.

Layouts can be renamed if desired by double-clicking with the left mouse button in the Layout name column. A keyboard shortcut can also be entered by double-clicking in the Keyboard shortcut column. This will display a prompt, and pressing a key (or a modifier followed by a key) will set the new shortcut.

Once a layout has been created, it will be available in the Workspace Layouts menu.

Layouts can also be imported or exported as XML files using the Import and Export buttons. Clicking the Remove button will remove the selected layout.