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Supervised Setup using Camera+Perspective Views
Though it is an older technique, it is also possible to use a perspective window containing one eye, and a camera view containing the other eye, typically the Camera+Perspective viewport setup or a custom configuration. This older technique is also used with multi-camera shots that are not stereo. It has the advantage that you make the perspective view display a specific frame, independent of the main frame number.
With the right camera active, click Lock to Current Cam on the perspective view's right-click menu. Then make the left camera active. Use control-home to vertically center the camera view to match the perspective view. Use the shot menu's Activate Other Eye (default accelerator key: minus sign) as needed to flip-flop the eyes shown in the camera and perspective views. In the perspective view, the right-click View/Show only locked setting can be helpful: it causes the perspective view to show only the trackers on the camera that perspective view is locked to.
Set the tracker control panel to Create Tracker mode. Set the perspective view to Add Stereo 2nd mode (on the Other Modes submenu). Click and drag in the camera view to create a tracker on one camera, and adjust whatever settings you need to. Then click and drag in the perspective view to create the matching tracker as a clone of the first. The two trackers will be linked together, and the names adjusted to match. If you entered a name for the first tracker, that name will be used, with L and R appended.
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