You’re only able to resize your shape tracker with this tool, the other tools allow for perspective and anchor manipulation, letting you move your object to anywhere in the frame whilst still tracking along to your car. Attach an object, (in this case an arrow) to the tracked data and the plugin applies keyframes to it that affect its scale, position and rotation within the frame. To do this you start by dragging simple tracker onto your timeline from the generator tab, once that’s selected draw a shape around part of the car you want to track and then let Track X to do its magic (you can manually add keyframes for those times the track goes haywire). It allows you to track simple objects in your film and add floating lower thirds, graphics or video elements to the track.įor example, the gallery above shows an arrow which has been tracked to a car. Just like it says on the box, simple tracker is a basic tracking tool. The plugin has three different types of generators: Simple Tracker, Text Tracker and Track Layer. Track X is easy to use and allows editors to track footage elements and add text, floating lower thirds, graphics, image elements or even screen layering. A plugin that gives FCPX users the power of Mocha’s planar tracking, applied directly to their timeline, without the need for exporting/importing tracked footage from other applications. The Academy Award winning Mocha Pro has teamed with Coremelt to create TrackX. The release of FCPX brought NLE editing into a quasi-professional environment for the masses and Coremelt plan to do the same for motion tracking with their plugins for FCPX – TackX. The point being that motion tracking is usually done by those third-party compositing applications, rather than (most) traditional NLE editing apps.

It’s been available for a number of years on NukeX and AE (via Mocha and the Foundry’s CameraTracker). Those who have used Adobe’s After Effects or other kinds of VFX/compositing programs would be pretty used to motion tracking by now.

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