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User interface

  • User interface
  • Main menu
  • Browser view
  • Preference pages
  • Glossary

Observation

  • Introduction
  • Playback screen user interface
  • Image transformation
  • Kinograms

Comparison

  • Comparison
  • Synchronization

Annotation

  • Annotation user interface
  • Key images
  • General annotation tools
  • Posture annotation tools
  • Drawings properties
  • Inserting images and vector drawings
  • Saving and loading annotation files
  • Importing external data

Measurement

  • Measurement
  • Spatial calibration
  • Lens distortion calibration
  • Time calibration
  • Calibration validation
  • Guidelines to minimize errors
  • Coordinate system
  • Measuring time
  • Counting events and measuring cadence
  • Measuring positions and distances
  • Measuring angles

Tracking

  • Tracking
  • Trajectory object
  • Tracking algorithms
  • Trackable drawings
  • Markerless tracking
  • Tracked coordinates
  • Camera motion estimation
  • Camera compensated annotations

Kinematics

  • Kinematics
  • Scatter diagram
  • Linear kinematics
  • Angular kinematics
  • Angle-angle diagram

Export

  • Export
  • Exporting videos
  • Exporting images
  • Exporting text documents
  • Exporting spreadsheet documents

Capture

  • Introduction
  • Capture screen user interface
  • DirectShow compatible devices
  • Machine vision cameras
  • Network cameras and smartphones
  • Camera simulator

Recording

  • Recording options
  • Capture folders
  • Recording triggers
  • Context variables

Delay and replay

  • Live delay
  • Instant replay mechanism

Advanced

  • Multi-window system
  • Workspaces
  • Post-recording commands
  • Command line options
  • Control from other programs

Miscellaneous topics

  • Frequently asked questions
  • Software update
  • Communication channels
Kinovea
  • Main menu

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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