Inspector Panel

The Inspector panel displays and edits the properties of whatever is currently selected — a clip on the timeline, a track or composition, or a cue.

Opening the Inspector

The Inspector is always visible on the right side of the Main Editor. Click any clip or cue in the Timeline or Playlist to populate it. As of 3.3, each property group renders as a collapsible card rather than a flat table — the properties themselves are unchanged, only the layout and the input widgets below are new.

Inspector Redesign (3.3)

Card Sections

Each property group (Audio & Time, Fade, Color Correction, Effects, …) is its own card with a ▸ header to expand or collapse it.

Segmented Timecode Inputs

Time-based fields (e.g. a clip's Offset, Duration, In and Out) use a segmented Hours:Minutes:Seconds.Tenths entry (Buffer size: Seconds.Tenths) — each segment can be typed into directly, stepped with the up/down controls, or navigated with the keyboard.

Drag-Scrub

Numeric and fader inputs can be adjusted by clicking and dragging vertically on the field, in addition to typing a value or using the step buttons.

Crop Editor

A visual crop/overscan editor: drag the corner handles directly on a preview of the source to crop into the image or push the frame out past its edges (overscan), instead of typing raw offset numbers.

The editor has two modes, switched at the top of the preview:

• Window — the crop is a rectangle. Its four handles resize it, dragging the box moves it, and the fields below give the window's size and its edge offsets.
• Corners — each of the four corner points moves on its own, for a skewed or keystone-shaped crop (a picture behind a slanted wall edge, a source with a tilted frame). The visible region becomes the quadrilateral drawn in the preview; what the corners cut away is shaded. The picture itself does not move or distort — this is a mask, not a perspective correction (use Media Warping for that). Every corner can also be typed as its exact source-pixel coordinates in the TL / TR / BL / BR fields, laid out like the picture, in px or as a percentage of the source size — a projection setup is measured, not eyeballed. A corner can only be pulled inside the window, never outside it. Reset corners puts all four back on the window without touching the window itself; the section's Reset clears everything.

Walkthrough

☰ menu → Walkthroughs → Media, effects & generators → Crop a clip — window and corners draws both modes in the Inspector and shows the result on the output.

Save Preset

An inline Save Preset button sits next to preset-name fields so you can save the current settings as a new preset without leaving the Inspector.

Appearance

Exaplay has one colour scheme, the dark one; the Inspector wears it like every other view. The font size is set in ☰ → Settings → Interface; see Configuration → Interface and Workflow Options.

Sections

Clip selected

Property	Description
Name	Display name of the clip, in the panel's title row
ID / Colour / Visibility / Loop	The inline row under the title — the clip's show-control ID, its colour on the timeline, its visibility switch and its loop toggle
File	The clip's file path, with Copy path and Replace… — see Media
In / Out	In and out points within the source file, next to Offset (position on the timeline) and Duration — see Trimming
Volume	Audio level, 0–100 %, with a Mute switch
Fade	One Fade type — Use default / None / Crossfade / Fade to black — with In, Out and Length in seconds. See Fades & Transitions
Size, Position & Scaling	Scaling mode, orientation, size, offset and alignment, in pixels or %
Crop	The visual crop / overscan editor described above
Effects	One GPU effect with its parameters — see Visual Effects
Color Correction	Red / Green / Blue / Master gain (0–200 %) plus brightness, contrast, saturation and white balance — always available, independent of the effect (details)
Media Warping	A warp grid for this clip alone (clips with video) — see below
Buffer size	Decode buffer in seconds

Media Warping

Bends one clip's picture by a grid of control points — to fit a picture onto an object, or a clip that must lean. It is not a projector correction: the projectors are corrected per screen on the Stage (see Projection Mapping), and a field on the Stage has a warp grid of its own.

Control	What it does
Grid	2x2 (4 corners), 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 control points
Select a point	Click it, or Tab / Shift+Tab through the points
Move it	Drag it; or the arrow keys — 0.01 per press, Shift + arrows 0.1; or type the point's X / Y offset (fractions of the clip's size)
Deselect	Enter or Esc
Reset	All points back to their place
Snapshots	+ Save current keeps the current warp; Restore or ✕ a saved one later
?	The keyboard shortcuts

With Settings → System → Debug mode on, the card also offers a Polar / Spherical (dome) layer; it is not yet production-ready.

Loop Count (playlist clip selected)

A clip in a playlist has a Loop card of its own:

Property	Description
Loop Count	How many times the clip repeats. 0 = infinite (the ↻ button resets to it); 1–99 for a fixed count.
After Loop	What happens once the count is used up — Continue Playlist, Black, or Last Frame. Only shown for a finite count.
Fade In / Fade Out	A fade applied at each loop boundary, 0–10 s.

Screen or field selected

Screens and fields are not edited in this Inspector. They are set up on the Stage tab, which has its own inspector — see Output Setup. That is also where a screen's projection correction lives (VIOSO calibration and Projection Setup) and where a field's warp grid is — see Projection Mapping.

No blend modes or Z-order fields

There are no per-clip blend modes (Add / Multiply / Screen) and no bring-to-front / send-to-back buttons in the Inspector. Draw order comes from the position of the screen, composition and track in the project tree: reorder the tracks, or the compositions, to change what covers what.

Collapsible Sections

Each property group has a ▸ toggle. Collapse sections you don't need to keep the panel tidy.