Stereo hot-keys mode

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RV has an un-documented supplementary "stereo hotkeys" mode in which an additional set of stero-related hotkeys are active.   You enter or leave the mode with Alt-s (Option-s on Mac).  While the mode is active, these additional hotkeys are available:

a  Anaglyph Mode
d  Checked Mode
k  Scanline Mode
s  Side-by-Side Mode
p  Side-by-Side Stereo Mode
m  Mirrored Side-by-Side Stereo Mode
x  Stereo Mode Off (DEPRECATED -- use alt-s (or option-s on the mac))
h  Hardware Stereo Mode
,  Left Eye Only Stereo Mode
.  Right Eye Only Stereo Mode
<  Left Eye Only Stereo Mode
>  Right Eye Only Stereo Mode
S  Swap Eyes
o  Edit Global Relative Stereo Offset

As of RV 3.10.2, we've added these hotkeys to the list above:

z  Horizontal Squeezed Stereo Mode
v  Vertical Squeezed Stereo Mode
r  Edit Global Right-Eye Stereo Offset

As of RV 3.12.11, we added a hotkey to turn stereo off,  especially useful in Presentation Mode:

f  Turn OFF Stereo Display Mode (in Controller Window) 

As of RV 3.12.15, we changed the hotkey to turn stereo off, since "f" conflicts with frame. We also added "/" to reset stereo offsets:

O  Turn OFF Stereo Display Mode (in Controller Window)
/  Reset Stereo Offsets

As of RV 3.12.19, we added a couple hotkeys to control the per-clip (per-source) stereo offset:

c  Edit Source/Clip Stereo Offset
R  Edit Source/Clip Right-Eye-Only Stereo Offset

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    Kurian O.S

    good hint :)

     

    Thanks Alan

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    Tomas

    Thanks for posting this info!

    Is it possible to launch rv through the command line and have it start in stereo mode?

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    Alan Trombla

    Hi Tomas,

    Yes, typically something like

    rv [ left.mov right.mov ] -stereo anaglyph

    "rv -help" for more examples.   The -stereo option takes all the stereo viewing types available in the gui, and you can also use multi-view exrs or two-track movies for stereo.

    Cheers,

    Alan

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    Tomas

    Hi Alan,

    Sorry, I should have been more specific. I was wondering if there is a way to put RV into the "stereo-hotkeys" mode automatically. So, load the footage in stereo plus doing the equivalent of Alt+S at launch. From the docs/what you posted I can open rv with the footage loaded correctly but still have to press Alt+S before I can use < and > to toggle eyes.

    Thanks,

    Tomas

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    Alan Trombla

    Hi Tomas,

    I see.  Well, as is maybe usual with RV, you can do surprising things, though not always in a "nice" way ;-)   You can activate the stereo hotkeys mode on startup like this:

    rv [ left.mov right.mov ] -eval 'pushEventTable("stereo");'

    Hope that helps,

    Alan

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    Tomas

    Sweet!

    Thanks Alan,

    Tomas

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    Dennis Serras

    Are you guys considering documenting these? There also even a menu choice for side-by-side squeezed - I was surprised to find this (it would have saved me a lot of headaches a couple of months ago). I like to be able to tell my artists to RTFM if they can't remember the hotkeys...

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