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User interface

  • Main window user interface
    • Main menu
    • Main toolbar
    • Explorer panel
    • Thumbnails panel
    • Screens panel
  • Workspaces
  • Running multiple instances of Kinovea
  • Preference pages

Observation and comparison

  • Loading videos
  • Playback screen user interface
  • Image transformation
  • Time calibration
  • Comparison and synchronization
  • Overview mode
  • Reverse mode

Annotation

  • Annotating videos
  • List of tools
  • Style and opacity of drawings
  • Time origin
  • Importing images and vector drawings
  • Saving and loading annotation files
  • Importing external data

Measurement

  • Calibration mechanisms
  • Guidelines to minimize errors
  • Coordinate system
  • Lens distortion calibration
  • Measuring time
  • Measuring positions and distances
  • Measuring angles
  • Tracking point trajectories
  • Tracking distances and angles
  • Linear and angular kinematics

Capture

  • Listing and opening cameras
  • Capture screen user interface
  • Supported cameras and options
  • Live delay
  • Recording
  • Replay folder observers

Export

  • Exporting video and images
  • Exporting data and measurements

Miscellaneous topics

  • Frequently asked questions
  • Software update
  • Command line options
  • Control from other applications
  • Communication channels
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Main menu¶

File¶

Open video…

Opens a video file in a playback screen.

Open replay folder observer…

Selects a folder to monitor.

Load annotations…

Merges a KVA file into the current video.

Recent

Displays a list of recently opened videos.

Save annotations

Saves the current annotations file.

Save annotations as…

Saves the annotations to a specific file.

Export video

Saves the video with annotations painted on.

Export to spreadsheet

Saves annotations to one of several spreadsheet formats.

Close

Closes the video.

Quit

Closes Kinovea.

Edit¶

Undo

Moves back in the drawings operations history.

Redo

Moves forward in the drawings operations history.

Cut drawing

Places the active drawing in Kinovea’s clipboard and deletes it.

Copy drawing

Places the active drawing in Kinovea’s clipboard.

Paste drawing

Pastes the drawing from Kinovea’s clipboard.

View¶

File explorer

Shows or hides the explorer panel.

Full screen

Places Kinovea in full screen mode.

One playback screen

Resets the workspace to one playback screen.

Two playback screens

Resets the workspace to two playback screens.

One capture screen

Resets the workspace to one playback screen.

Two capture screens

Resets the workspace to two playback screens.

Invert screens

Swaps screens.

Show/Hide common controls

Shows or hides the joint controls.

Image¶

Image format

Forces the aspect ratio of the images to a preset value.

Image rotation

Rotates the video or camera images.

Mirror

Flips the video or camera images horizontally.

Demosaicing

Performs color reconstruction on raw videos.

Deinterlace

Removes interlacing artifacts.

Video¶

Configure video timing…

Opens a dialog to change the capture framerate or the nominal framerate.

Overview…

Displays a mosaic of the images in the video.

Reverse…

Inverts the order of the video frames.

Tools¶

Observational reference

Displays preset drawings that can be addded to the active video.

Camera test grid

Displays a test pattern to the active capture screen.

Coordinate system

Shows or hides the coordinate system on the active video.

Camera calibration

Displays the lens distortion calibration dialog.

Scatter diagram…

Displays the scatter diagram dialog.

Linear kinematics…

Displays the linear kinematics plot.

Angualr kinematics…

Displays the angular kinematics plot.

Angle-angle diagram…

Displays the angle-angle plot.

Options¶

Language

Changes the language of the user interface.

Time

Changes the preferred time representation.

Workspace

Saves or exports the current state of the screens.

Preferences

Opens the preference pages.

Help¶

Check for updates…

Checks if a new version of Kinovea is available.

Open log folder…

Opens Kinovea’s application data folder.

www.kinovea.org

Opens Kinovea’s website in the default web browser.

About Kinovea…

Opens the About dialog.

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