View & Display¶
Everything here lives under the View menu, and most of it is also in the View panel.
Zoom and pan¶
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Fit view to instances | Cmd+= / Ctrl+= |
| Fit view to selection | View ▸ Fit View to Selection |
| Reset view | R |
| Toggle pan mode | P |
With the mouse and trackpad:
| Gesture | Does |
|---|---|
| Scroll (wheel or two-finger) | Pan |
| Ctrl + scroll, or trackpad pinch | Zoom toward the pointer (Ctrl on macOS too) |
| Middle-button drag | Pan |
| Hold Space and drag | Pan |
| Drag on empty canvas | Draw a selection box |
Default to Pan Mode (P) makes a plain drag pan instead of drawing a selection box — handy when you're reviewing rather than editing. You can still drag nodes in pan mode. In pan mode, Space-drag selects instead, Cmd / Ctrl-drag zooms, and double-clicking empty canvas resets the view.
Two aids for precision work:
- Crosshair When Zoomed — draws crosshairs so you can line a point up exactly
- Magnifier When Moving Nodes — a loupe follows the node you're dragging
What gets drawn¶
| Toggle | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Show instances | H |
| Show node names | T |
| Show edges | Cmd+Shift+Tab |
| Show non-visible nodes | V |
View ▸ Display sets a coarser policy for showing occluded geometry:
| Mode | Shows |
|---|---|
| Manual | Whatever you toggled by hand |
| Only selected (with hidden points) | Just the selected instance, hidden points included |
| All instances, visible points only | Every instance, visible points only |
| All visible + selected hidden points | Everything, plus the selected instance's hidden points |
Color¶
View ▸ Apply Distinct Colors To decides what the palette is spent on:
| Mode | Distinct colors per |
|---|---|
| Auto (Node / Track) | Nodes when there are no tracks, tracks when there are |
| Tracks | Identity — the right choice for reviewing tracking |
| Instances | Instance — useful on frames with several untracked animals |
| Nodes | Body part — useful for checking a skeleton |
| Edges | Connection |
View ▸ Color Palette picks the palette: standard, five+ (more distinct hues, for many tracks), or alphabet.
View ▸ Color Predicted Instances controls whether predictions get the same color treatment as user labels, or are drawn distinctly so you can tell at a glance what still needs accepting.
Sizing¶
- Node Marker Size — how big the node circles are
- Node Label Size — how big node name text is
- Edge Style — Line or Wedge (wedges make direction along a chain readable)
- Trail Length — how many frames of motion history to draw behind each instance
- Text Size — the whole UI's text scale (Cmd+Shift+= / Cmd+-, and Reset to Default)
Layout¶
- Side Panel — show or hide the panel column
- Sidebar on Left — move it to the other side
- Allow Multiple Panels — open several panels at once instead of one at a time
- Panels ▸ Reset to Defaults… — put the layout back
The Panels menu opens any individual panel; see the panels reference.