Panels

Preferences

The three add-on settings, and the diagnostics report.

Under Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Dope Track.

These are add-on settings rather than scene settings, so they're stored with Blender and persist across every .blend you open, instead of resetting with each new file.

If you have an NVIDIA card, the first thing here is a note rather than a setting: the GPU to run work on is chosen in the Node Editor sidebar, under Device, next to the switch it belongs with.

Auto-Add New Tracks to Active Group

With a group active in the Movie Clip sidebar, markers you create afterwards join it automatically. Markers that already belong to a group are left alone, so the tracker nodes keep managing their own groups.

The same toggle appears in Tracking Point Groups, and it's the same setting in both places.

Check for Updates Daily

Once a day, Dope Track fetches the released version number over HTTPS and tells you here if a newer one exists. Nothing is downloaded, nothing is installed, and nothing is sent beyond the request itself.

There's a Check Updates button next to the toggle for checking on the spot.

When an update is found you get a box with the version number, a short note about what's in it, and buttons that open the store page you bought from: Superhive, Gumroad, or the website.

Run Diagnostics

The quickest way to answer "is my install healthy?".

It works through the environment, your NVIDIA GPU, the bundled OpenCV with real CUDA operations, rawpy, FFmpeg, COLMAP and GLOMAP startup, OpenMVS, and a real GPU feature extraction. So it's not just checking that files exist, it's running them.

A summary line appears in the panel when it finishes, and a .txt and .json report is written to your Desktop. Open Report opens it. If something looks wrong, that report is the thing to send on.

See also GPU and Dependencies and Common Issues.