Viewing Cameras

Inspecting and viewing individual cameras

CaptureGRID provides several windows for working with cameras. The Dashboard shows a multi-camera overview (see Dashboard), and the Camera Controls window is for configuring settings and triggering (see Camera Control). This page covers the remaining two: the Cameras window for the tabular view of every camera the app knows about, and the Live View window for the real-time preview of what a single camera is seeing.

Cameras Window

The Cameras window shows every camera that the app knows about, in a table format. This includes cameras currently connected as well as cameras that have been seen before. Each row corresponds to one camera and shows its name, group, status, settings and other identifying information.

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The window is useful when working with a large rig and you need detailed information about each camera in one place — for example, to check that all cameras have the expected aperture setting, or to identify a camera that has lost connection.

Filtering and Sorting

The Cameras window has a filter row at the top of the table that lets you narrow the visible rows. You can filter by:

  • Group — only show cameras in a particular group

  • Node — only show cameras connected to a particular Node

  • Status — only show cameras with a particular connection status

Column headings can also be clicked to sort the table.

Right-click Actions

Right-clicking a row opens a context menu with actions that apply to the selected camera. The most commonly used are:

  • Rename — set a custom name for the camera (stored against the serial number, so the name persists across reconnects)

  • Set Group — assign the camera to a named group, for use with the Dashboard’s group filter and the Camera Controls window’s Limit to group checkbox

  • Connect / Disconnect — control the connection to the camera

  • Identify — flash an indicator on the physical camera to help locate it in a rig

Selecting multiple rows before right-clicking lets the same action be applied to all of the selected cameras at once.

Live View Window

The Live View window shows a real-time preview from a single camera. This is the most common way to compose a shot, check focus, or verify that a scene looks the way you expect before triggering the camera.

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Up to four Live View windows can be open at once, each showing a different camera. For everything the Live View windows can do — focusing, zooming, overlays and camera-specific notes — see Live View.