Camera

Zoom shots

Drag a rectangle and the video frames exactly that. Arriving, holding and releasing a shot.

Quick steps

Start with the base picture
"Whole chart" fits every candle in the frame. "Fixed width" keeps a set number of candles on screen and lets the chart scroll past instead — the replay look, where the zoom never changes. That is the resting picture the whole video comes back to.
Add a move on the chart
With the Camera tool, drag a rectangle where you want the camera to go. That rectangle is what the video shows at that moment. Click a move's frame, its stripe in the timeline, or its row in the element list to come back and edit it.
Back to normal
"Back to normal at candle" ends a move and returns the camera to your base picture — the whole chart, or the scrolling window, whichever you chose. Leave it empty and the move simply holds until the next one takes over.
Why it stops getting closer
A move is never framed tighter than the thing it points at: the whole element or formation always fits, plus its padding. Drag a rectangle instead if you want the frame exactly where you put it.

The camera is a list of shots. Each one names a moment and a thing to look at, and the camera glides between them.

Press z and drag a rectangle. That rectangle is what the video frames when it gets there.

Camera work is invisible in the Editor pane

The Editor pane always shows the whole chart, by design — you cannot annotate what is off screen. Open the Output pane to see the camera. The editor opens it for you the moment you arm the Zoom tool or open the Camera section.

Two zooms, and only one is the camera

The −/+ at the top of the Editor pane is your working magnification. It never reaches the export.
Visible candles (Settings → Output) and the shots in the Camera section decide what the exported video shows.

Placing a shot

Drag a rectangle and you get exactly that framing. A single click places a mild zoom centred on the point, as a starting point to adjust rather than a decision.

Either way the shot arrives at the column you clicked, and is seeded with a release about twelve columns later — a zoom that never comes back out is almost never what was meant.

Arriving, holding, releasing

Field	Meaning
At candle	Where the glide ends. The move happens over the transition before this column.
Transition	Seconds of glide. `0` is a hard cut.
Until	The column where the camera releases back to the whole chart. Empty = hold until the next shot takes over.

Both ends are drawn on the canvas in the same language every element uses: amber for arrives, red for releases, with a dashed connector to the frame they belong to. Every shot's timing is visible without selecting anything — the emphasised shot gets full markers, the others thin start/end lines with a Zoom N label.

Clicking one of those faint markers pins that shot.

What a shot points at

Targets are semantic, never a pixel rectangle. Move the element or regenerate the candles underneath and the shot follows.

Target	Frames
Whole chart	Everything
This element	One annotation, plus padding
This selection	Several elements together
This block	A whole Market Block
Candle range	From column a to column b
Region	A rectangle you drew, price range and all
Follow a line	Chases a line as it draws itself
Camera follows the chart	A fixed-width window the chart scrolls through

Why a shot sometimes comes back wider than you asked

A shot is never framed tighter than the thing it points at: the whole element or formation always fits, plus its padding. If you point at a Market Block spanning forty columns, you get at least those forty columns.

If you want the frame exactly where you put it, drag a region instead. A region's rectangle is authored rather than derived, which is what "what you drag is what you get" means.

Following a drawing line

Follow tracks a line while it draws itself in:

Tip hangs a tight frame on the point currently being drawn — the camera chases.
Grow frames everything drawn so far — a glide that opens out.

Once the line is finished, or for anything without a directional tip, it falls back to the element's full bounds.

The replay look

Camera follows the chart is different in kind from the others: it names a width, not a place. A fixed number of candles stays on screen and the chart scrolls through them, the way a replay looks. The zoom never changes.

Its price axis can follow the candles in view every frame, follow them smoothly (damped over about a second), or stay fixed to the whole chart's range so only the horizontal position moves.

A following camera runs until something else takes over. Add a shot late in the video targeting the whole chart and the camera pulls out there.

Working on one shot

Click a shot to work on it. The playhead jumps to it so you can see what you are changing, and its controls turn on. An inactive shot's controls stay off on purpose — changing something you cannot currently see is how a slider comes to look broken.

Once pinned, drag the frame directly on the canvas, or drag its timing pills to move when it arrives and releases. The pills are clamped so they cannot cross.

Escape once leaves the tool; twice clears the pin.

Zoom strength

One control, in the panel: a per-shot Zoom slider that writes a region target. For any other target kind it is disabled, with an "Unlock free zoom" button that converts the shot to a region so the slider applies.

There is deliberately no second way to set this. There used to be four surfaces over the same number, with three ranges that disagreed with each other.