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UI: Merge Clip Track & Track Settings
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Authored by Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) on Jan 26 2021, 12:47 AM.

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Summary
  • Combines the tracking settings panel into the track panel. Before settings were split between the two panels and it was hard to follow.
  • Rename "Stab Weight" to "Stabilization Weight"
  • Move custom color to subpanel
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rB Blender
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ui-clip-track-settings (branched from master)
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Buildable 12377
Build 12377: arc lint + arc unit

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Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) requested review of this revision.Jan 26 2021, 12:47 AM
Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) created this revision.

What is the purpose of this? What does it solve or improve?

There are few aspects which I don't find a right direction of a change:

  • The color selector seems to use more space, more clicks to sue compared to what is used to be in 2.79.
  • The tracking speed (which is in Track -> Tracking Settings Extras) is a global tracking setting. It can not be under the Track.
  • The preview is planned to be extended in a way that it shows reference and current sampled pattern. From this point of view, moving more stuff next to previews seems wrong. It is more like from the longer term point of view proper solution is to move preview to own panel.

Combines the tracking settings panel into the track panel. Before settings were split between the two panels and it was hard to follow.

You do not really need to follow all those settings all the time. Once tracking settings are set according to the motion on the footage, your main focus is the preview area.

Rename "Stab Weight" to "Stabilization Weight"

This part seems good!

I don't think this is a good change. These things are separate because they are separate settings that do separate things.
The tracking settings operate during tracking. Only when you actually use the tool (as in, track forward or backwards), they have an effect.
The Track settings are properties of the track that affect solving and/or display. Let's keep it that way.
Unless it might be an idea to have the tool settings (former default tracking settings) also act as tracking settings, so to unify those. But I think that might violate the whole active tool design in Blender...