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title: "Use Simple Capture Mode"
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**Simple Capture Mode** enables you to use a workspace that maximizes your view of the capture volume and exposes a focused subset of controls required for repeated captures, allowing you to concentrate on the movement you are capturing. 

In **Simple Capture Mode**, only the currently selected view type is displayed, together with controls that enable you to specify the trial type, name, and description, and to start and stop (or cancel) captures.

![image](media://9e1ceb73-1948-4a23-85e8-64e840a0d232)

**To display a simplified capture view:**

1. Ensure that you have set up your Vicon system as required, that Nexus is in Live mode, and that you have set up your trial types, including any post-capture pipeline required, auto-start triggers, etc. (For information on setting up trials, including pipelines and triggers, see [Capture the required movement](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Nexus212/pages/11243386) and [Automatically start and stop capture](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Nexus212/pages/11249290).)  
By default, Simple Capture Mode displays the same view as the current workspace. You can customize the view to include other panes (eg, a video pane alongside the **3D Perspective**), as described in the following steps.
2. Associate a custom view type with **Simple Capture Mode**. To do this:
  1. Open the **Options** dialog (press F7) and on the left click **Simple Capture Mode View Options**.
  2. On the right, from the **View Type** list, select **On**.
  3. From the **User Specified Simple Capture Mode View** list, select one of the following:
    - To use the Vicon-supplied **Simple Capture **view type (which displays the view pane with a **3D Perspective** view on the left, and **Camera** views with video cameras selected on the right, as shown above), ensure **Simple Capture** is selected; or
    - To use your own view type (for a reminder of the controls that enable you to define and save a view type, see[Get to know Vicon Nexus](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Nexus212/pages/11249405/Get+to+know+Vicon+Nexus#ViewTypeList)), select the required option.
3. Turn on Simple Capture Mode. To do this:
  - On the **Window** menu, select **Simple Capture Mode**; or
  - Press CTRL+H
  The simplified capture view that you selected in the **Options** dialog box is displayed.
4. To capture trials, at the bottom right of the Simple Capture view, click **Start**.
5. To exit Simple Capture Mode, either press Esc, or press CTRL+H again. (You can also click the **Window** menu and clear **Simple Capture Mode**.)