Tiles and layouts

The layout buttons

The Layout: row in the top toolbar shows one icon button per available arrangement. Which buttons appear depends on how many videos are loaded:

The buttons are small icons; hover for the layout’s name. Click one to switch; the active layout is highlighted. The app remembers your preferred layout per video count — if you always use 3 Horizontal for three videos, that’s what you’ll get next time three are loaded.

When no videos are loaded the row shows a single greyed “not available” symbol instead of buttons — there’s nothing to lay out yet.

Videos always keep their true shape inside a tile — black bars fill the leftover space rather than the picture stretching.

Resizing tiles with splitters

Between tiles there are thin draggable splitters. Drag one to give a tile more room at its neighbour’s expense — for instance, making the head-on angle larger and the side angle smaller. Only the two adjacent tiles change; the rest of the grid stays put.

• Splitter positions are remembered per layout, so your adjusted 1 Left / 2 Right stays adjusted next time.
• Double-click a splitter to reset that layout to its even default.

Maximize a tile (double-click)

Double-click any tile to make it fill the whole video area. The other tiles vanish from view but keep doing whatever they were doing — in Lock Mode they keep playing in step, so when you come back nothing has drifted. Double-click again to restore the previous layout, with every tile back in its exact position.

While a tile is maximized the layout buttons are disabled and the splitters hide. The status display reminds you a tile is maximized.

Swap two tiles (Ctrl+click)

To rearrange which video sits where: Ctrl+click the tile you want to move — it gets a dashed blue outline — then Ctrl+click the tile to swap it with. The two tiles trade places; the videos themselves are untouched (no interruption to playback or alignment). The moved tile becomes the selected tile.

To cancel a pending swap: Ctrl+click the same tile again, or plain-click anywhere.

Selection and the border colour

One tile is always selected, marked with a coloured border — red in Unlock Mode, blue in Lock Mode. Plain-click a tile to select it.

Selection means two different things depending on mode:

• In Unlock Mode the transport bar controls the selected tile, and only it. It’s also the tile whose timeline the clock shows.
• In Lock Mode the transport controls all tiles regardless; selection only chooses which tile you hear, and (during a scrub) which tile previews the drag (chapter 7).

In both modes, only the selected tile’s audio plays — the rest are silent. So the border isn’t just decoration: the blue or red tile is the one coming out of your speakers.

Seeing which file is in each tile

Tiles show the picture, not the file name — so when several angles look alike, or you’ve been swapping tiles around, it’s easy to lose track of which video is which. The identify button clears that up. It’s the small tag icon at the top-right of the toolbar, just left of the version number, and it’s available whenever at least one video is loaded.

Click it and every loaded tile briefly shows its file name in a high-contrast label in the top corner, fading away after a few seconds. Click again at any time to bring the labels back — the timer just restarts. A name too long for the tile is shortened with an ellipsis in the middle, keeping the end of the name visible, so files that differ only at the end (…angle1, …angle2) stay tellable apart.

The same click also copies a numbered list of the loaded videos to the clipboard — one line per tile, each with the video’s full path:

Video 1 - D:\Videos\20260716IPSR01S_V_angle1.mp4
Video 2 - D:\Videos\20260716IPSR01S_V_angle2.mp4
Video 3 - D:\Videos\20260716IPSR01S_V_angle3.mp4

— handy for pasting the exact files into an email or another program. The on-tile labels stay short; only the clipboard carries the full paths. Like the clipboard timecode (chapter 8), this copy replaces whatever was on the clipboard.