main.camera
Viewer
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Viewer

For the main.camera team. Camera operators don’t need to sign in.

main.camera

Sessions

0 live

A camera shows up here as soon as its operator opens viewer.main.camera and connects the capture device. Open one to watch its preview and grab full-quality stills.

Monitor

Plug in your capture device, then connect.

Waiting for a picture…

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Stills

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Full-resolution PNGs of the frame, exactly as it arrives from the input. Open one to check it on the waveform or download it.

Reference image

Tools

Locked
Tools Access

Waveform

Live
Waveform
In full screen
Measure

Vectorscope

Live

Picture

Off

Skin tone

Off
Skin tone view
Auto find range

Finds the largest face in the picture and sets the hue, saturation and luma range from its skin.

Color model
Hue
Saturation
Value
Overlay
On the skin line

Yellow within this many degrees of the skin tone line, magenta toward red, green toward yellow.

Low-pass filter
Presets

    Chromaticity

    Off

    Audio

    Off

    Signal

    Live

    Session

    The preview refreshes about once a second while you watch. Grab still asks the camera for a full-quality PNG of that moment.

    Input

    SourceNo input
    Resolution
    Scale
    Camera name

    Works with any USB capture device that shows up as a webcam, such as the AJA U-TAP. The picture is shown as it arrives from the device, with no compression. Chrome or Safari recommended.