🎥 View2Cam — Turn Any Viewport Into a Camera (Record • Smooth • Retime)

Stop fighting with camera placement. View2Cam lets you frame your shot by simply navigating the viewport — then turns that exact view into a real camera in one click. Want motion? Just navigate while recording and your orbit/pan/zoom becomes clean, editable camera animation. Built-in smoothing and retiming tools turn shaky hand-navigation into professional, cinematic camera moves.

Perfect for product shots, turntables, beauty renders, and flythroughs — no keyframing skills required.

✨ Key Features

• 📸 Create Camera From View — One click creates a camera that matches your viewport exactly: position, rotation, and field of view.
• 🚫 No-Crop Matching — Reads the viewport's true projection and aligns render aspect to your viewport, so the camera captures exactly what you see — no zoomed-in crop.
• 🔴 Record Viewport → Animation — Press record, navigate freely (orbit, pan, zoom), and your movement becomes camera keyframes. Live "Recording" state with one-click Stop or ENTER to save.
• ⚡ Heavy-Scene Friendly — Recording samples to memory and bakes on stop, so there's no per-frame scene re-evaluation — smooth capture even in dense, high-poly scenes.
• 🎯 Keyframe Every N Frames — Drop one keyframe every N frames with averaged sampling for naturally smoother motion and lighter curves.
• 〰️ Smooth / Refine — Gaussian de-jitter, auto-clamped Bezier handles, and keyframe simplification. Smooth Location, Rotation, and Lens independently.
• ⏱️ Retime / Rhythm — Fix uneven hand-timing with Constant Speed (arc-length re-sampling of translation and rotation), Ease In/Out for cinematic acceleration, and a Set Duration control.
• 🎞️ Perspective & Orthographic — Full support for both projection types.
• 🔍 Optional Lens/Zoom Recording — Capture focal-length and ortho-scale changes too.

⚙️ How It Works

1. Frame your shot by navigating the viewport.
2. Hit Create Camera From View — or Start Record and move the view to capture motion.
3. (Optional) Run Smooth / Refine to clean jitter.
4. (Optional) Run Retime with Constant Speed + Ease for a polished, steady move.
5. Hit play — your camera does exactly what you did.

🧩 Technical

• 🟢 Blender 4.2 → 5.x (Extension package with manifest + legacy add-on)
• 🟢 Slotted-Action compatible (works with the new 4.4+ animation system and legacy actions)
• 🟢 Exact FOV from the viewport projection matrix (no guesswork)
• 🟢 Quaternion-averaged buckets + Euler continuity (no 360° flips)
• 🟢 Clean N-panel UI under the View2Cam tab

💡 Ideal For

Product & automotive beauty shots • turntables • environment flythroughs • portfolio renders • quick previz.

🔗 Support & Community

💬 Join the 3DRedbox Studio Discord: https://discord.gg/EC8d7nPsYj

By 3DRedbox Studio — Milad Kambari