View2Cam | Blender Add-on  

Record • Smooth • Retime — the fastest way to get a cinematic camera in Blender.

Stop fighting with camera placement and manual keyframing. View2Cam lets you frame your shot by simply navigating the viewport, then turns that exact view into a real camera in one click — with no cropping. Want motion? Just navigate while recording and your orbit/pan/zoom becomes clean, editable animation. Built-in smoothing and retiming tools turn shaky hand-navigation into professional, steady, cinematic camera moves.

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

• 📸 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 matrix and matches the render aspect, so the camera captures exactly what you see — never a zoomed-in crop.
• 🔴 Record Viewport → Animation — Press record, navigate freely, and your movement becomes camera keyframes. Live "Recording" state with one-click Stop or ENTER to save.
• ⚡ Heavy-Scene Friendly — 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-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.
• 🟦 Composition Guides — Rule of Thirds, Golden Triangles, Harmonious Triangles, Center & Diagonal — shown in the viewport and camera view.
• 🎞️ Perspective & Orthographic — Full support for both projection types.
• 🔍 Optional Lens/Zoom Recording — Capture focal-length and ortho-scale changes too.

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) Smooth / Refine to clean jitter.
4. (Optional) Retime with Constant Speed + Ease for a polished, steady move.
5. Hit play — your camera does exactly what you did.

• 🟢 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 sampling + Euler continuity (no 360° flips)
• 🟢 Clean N-panel UI under the View2Cam tab

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