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INTRODUCTION

i published a video a couple of days ago covering my first impressions of the object tracker in final cut pro's update 10.6 now i've had time to work with the new built-in tracker this video is an in-depth look at some of the different ways to use the object tracker and if you just take one thing away from this video it's how critical it is to select high contrast items in your tracking

MASK PIXELATE

you'll see how important this is at the end of the tutorial when i track a logo to a wall the object of this video is that there's a little bit about the tracker but it's mainly a focus on how you'll use it and what you'll use it for for example blur out a license plate or track color mask pixelate faces and depth of field color grade backgrounds behind objects track multiple faces add logos and text to walls and billboards i'll show you how to do all of these effects and along the way you'll see shortcuts about general techniques that'll speed up your editing and final cut but there are some things that you need to be aware of in regards to changing the speed of clips and to the stabilization of a clip

OBJECT TRACKING

i'll discuss those a little later in the video but if you want to jump there they're in the timestamps below this tutorial is much longer than normal and it's got a lot of detail in fact i've been tossing up making it into several separate videos but i've opted to put it all in here if you're just looking for a particular technique to learn then check the time stamps below you can also save this tutorial and refer back to it later and it's not just a long tutorial to view this has taken much more time than usual to research and produce so it's really appreciated if you please like and subscribe and of course press the bell to be notified but before i get into discussion about object tracking i just wanted to mention

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some minor items in the release notes to the final cut pro update that i didn't mention in the last video along with object tracking and cinematic mode final cut pro included a new effect called neon that can be added to text and generators and even clips and you'll see neon added in the red arrows in this tutorial i'll also publish a fast and easy video that will feature the neon effect also in the update was xml 1.10 though the earlier version 1.9 can still be used and i suggest you check with any person you're transferring the xml to check that they're able to accept 1.10 xml and make sure that they've got that version on their final cut pro if in doubt i'd suggest you continue to use version 1.9 at least in the meantime anyway on to the in-depth look at object tracking during my recent frequent use of the inbuilt object tracker

PLUS TRACKER

i can absolutely now confirm it's faster than any other tracker that i've used in my last tutorial i concentrated on the manual method to add the object tracker to the inspector and that's using the plus tracker option in the inspector now i've used it for a while it's much easier just to drag the title the generator of the effect into the viewer and let it select a face or an object not only your faces automatically selected for you but it also attempts to select other objects as well even giving them different names that's face or object i think it's worth pointing out here though so that you're absolutely clear that the tracking feature is always active you just choose to use it when you want no need to turn it on or off just ignore it if it's not needed

ANALYZE

so let's review how to simply add a title to be tracked select the clip in the timeline press the x key this selects all of the clip so that when you add the title it'll cover the whole clip and not just the portion from where you play headers placed in the timeline find the title that you want to use and drag it over the object in the viewer there's a face so it'll find that and label it or objects will be named object notice that the title covers the full clip in the timeline now select analyze at the top left of the viewer and the whole clip is analyzed there are left and right choices but you'll only need those if you want to just analyze from the left or the right of the playhead and that's most likely to happen

TRACKING INFORMATION

when you re-analyze a clip in case you don't see analyze right click in the viewer and select transform and you can move the title to any place on the viewer the tracking information stays attached to the clip in the timeline when you play the title it may jump and there are a number of things you can do the most obvious is to turn off rotation in the inspector select the effect being tracked and go to the inspector click the film strip tab and to the right of transform you'll see a rotation turn it off you can also adjust the different tracking analysis options that are in the main clip select the clip this time in the timeline rather than the effect and again with the film strip tab selected then at the bottom of the inspector there are choices automatic machine learning and point cloud normally

MOTION TRACKER

you'd leave it on automatic but point cloud appears to remove more jitter than the automatic mode point cloud is supposed to be less susceptible to changes in the motion of an object being tracked and a warning here point cloud will stop working if the object moves behind a tree or something else that hides the face for a moment machine learning will be much more forgivable and combined it uses both machine learning and point cloud and my suggestion is to try the different methods if you've got jitter you can add another title effect or generator to the viewer and use that same tracking information drag the title above the clip where you want it to appear make sure the title is highlighted and resize and position it click the downward arrow and select the tracker and one other thing i've learned is that if you don't yet know what title or effect

STRIP TAB

you want to use then you can track the clip first and then select the effect later select the clip of the timeline and then in the inspectors film strip tab at the bottom click the plus sign that's to the right of the trackers the grid appears and you can select what you want to track and then press analyze now press x to select the whole clip go off and decide what effect you want to add press q and that effect is added above the whole clip notice it goes across the whole clip because you press the x key to select the clip in the timeline in the first place highlight the effect in the timeline and right click in the viewer

DOWNWARD ARROW

select transform click the downward arrow and select object track most likely the tracking of text is the first thing that comes to mind when you're thinking about the object tracker but let me tell you the use of tracking shapes will be much more useful to you and let me explain your first thought when you think of shapes will be how to track color masks so let's cover that with this clip of the two friends meeting at the same time i'll show you how different faces can be tracked in that same clip it's got previous tracking information that i don't want so i can remove that previous tracker by highlighting it in the inspector make sure the yellow lines are around it and press the delete key i want to reduce some of the brightness of the girl's face with a color mask in the effects browser i've selected color wheels and drag that over the face and you can adjust the grid if you need press analyze

SHAPE MOUSE

you'll notice some differences from when you track the title in the viewer you'll see shape with the link icon highlighted rather than transform and the link item not highlighted you'll also see that the effect in the inspector has a shape mask added and it always pays to scrub through the clips at this stage to check that the tracker has followed the face even after the hand obscures it for a moment you'll see the shape mask in the viewer and it's got a feather area around it that's over the background and the result of this will be that it'll highlight the background as well as her face so that feather in the shape mask can be adjusted to suit but a warning first if you change the shape mouse

COLOUR CORRECTION

now it'll also change the grid for the tracker which will affect the tracking information already attached to the clip so click the link icon to untrack the shape mask from the tracker grid now you can adjust the feather and the shape mask without changing the grid and the secret to adding colour correction that's in almost all situations is to make it as subtle as possible otherwise it's going to look unrealistic but for this exercise though i'll exaggerate that correction so you can easily follow the effect and see it also notice that the tracking has been interrupted by the hand passing in front of the face you could re-analyze that after the hand passes so right click on the clip in the timeline and select show tracking editor find a point after the hand passes in front of her face click and drag in the lighter blue line

GAUSSIAN BLUR

select analyze and if that doesn't work you can add keyframes to move the shape mask after the hand passes click in the timeline where the hand is passing the face in the inspector add a keyframe move the playhead to the point that the face comes back into view and adjust the shape mask over her face and now to blur a face let's hide the other face with a blur or we can pixelate it first though it's a good idea to label the different face mask so you know which is which with the clip selected in the timeline in the inspector double-click the word face track and change it to girl's face select a gaussian blur in the effects browser and drag it onto the boy's face and for this one it probably would pay to increase the size of the grid a little

CONTRAST AREA

you want to be sure to cover the whole face and your viewers will accept that part of the background will be covered as well increase the blur amount and even boost it a bit press analyze and finally rename the tracker's name in the inspector to boy's face and notice when you select the trackers in the inspector the different marks show up in the viewer now let's look at blurring a license and i'll use the pixelate for this exercise it's select all in the effects browser and search for pix drag pixelate to the license plate then reshape it to fit that license plate and make sure that you select a high contrast area move the center circle over that contrast area

PIXELATE EFFECT

you may need to resize the viewer to see it better unlock the shape of the viewer reduce the feather select the tracker again and analyze you could add a pixelate to the other cars without having to analyze them drag pixelate to the second license plate and resize the grid unlink it reduce the feather select the downward chevron and select object track you could use the same technique to magnify an item on the screen and i've previously got a clip where i've used the magnification now let's sharpen a face and this was really useful where you've had a camera set on autofocus and it's focused on the background rather than fully on the face this is much the same technique as using blur or pixelate effect

SHARPEN EFFECT

but you're using the sharpen effect instead but as you'll see there's a real way to be able to do this for just part of a clip in the clip of the boy on the bike you may have noticed that the camera follows the face and it goes out of focus for a second or two so let's try and fix that find the points that the focus changes and with the b key held down scissors appear click to cut each position and release the b key drag the sharpen effect from the effects browser over the face in that cut out section adjust the sharpening in the inspector and just as with color grading try to make the amount of adjustment really subtle and now to add depth of field to a clip

COLOUR EFFECT

this clip i want the person getting the haircut to be featured and the rest of the background to be blurred drag the gaussian blur over the person and adjust to cover as much of him as possible without overlapping too much of the background analyze the blur is on the person so to invert that select the shape mask icon to the right of the view masks adjust the amount of blur and in a similar vein we can color grade background behind objects and this is very similar to the last example and you can use a number of effects color wheels or colorize for instance in this case let's use colorize drag it to the face or object you want to feature and as in the last example invert the mask and then adjust the color effect in this example

BREAK DANCER

we'll put a logo on the wall and it will track as the clip moves this effect requires the logo to look believable as part of the wall so it's important to meld it into the substance of the wall so let's add that logo to the wall behind the breakdancer select the clip and press the x key drag the logo to the wall looking for a really good contrast point adjust it to cover just that high contrast area click transform and resize the logo to fit and use distorted rotation if you need to it's a good idea to select overlay to make it look as if it's part of the wall and you may want to reduce the opacity a little so that the texture of the wall shows through select tracker at the top of the viewer and press analyze now play you could turn off rotation and select point cloud analysis if necessary as i've said several times and i can't emphasize enough the contrast to the object being tracked is just

TRACK AND PRESS X

so very important in fact it's absolutely critical look at this clip with the hand just roughly selected with the grid now compare the motion of the tracking with the same clip with the contrast is very carefully selected from time to time you may be confronted with situations that could affect the tracking analysis let's consider some of those so you know what's likely to happen in advanced first let's look at speed changes from the testing i've done speed changes don't seem to affect the original tracking information after the analysis let's try this clip here with the boy on the bike i'll select a blade speed by using the shift plus b and slow down the end of the clip and then extend the text over it now i'm playing that and it looks quite fine now stabilization if you're stabilizing a clip i suggest you do that first before adding a tracker let's look at this clip it's got a bit of camera shake and that can be removed by selecting the stabilization first now select the track and press x

SMOOTHER

now add a title to the face resize and analyze the green outline shows that the tracker has followed the face if it turns red then it means it's not following well or in fact it may have lost the track point altogether now let's play that through and it looks fine but this clip which has already been analyzed if i stabilize it now it'll not be a smooth so right click on the main clip and select show tracking editor select all of the light blue line and click analyze now let's play it again and it's much smoother now let's have a look at scale so what this will do is it'll scale the size of an object being tracked as the subject comes closer to the camera so we're using that same clip i've selected the clip and pressed x

TITLE AND DRAG

now i'll add a custom title and drag that over the face i'm going to turn off rotation and turn on scale and i'll change the text to the word bigger and i find that the tracker is better with point cloud in this situation and as we play it you'll see the text increases in size as she gets closer to the camera and one final thought the initial application of the tracker effect is very intuitive after you've used it for a few times but to make it seamless don't be frightened to adjust and to reanalyze and these are the things to consider positioning the tracker make sure you've got a good contrast point selected with the grid and resize the grid just to fit

CONCLUSION

what you're tracking and if you're using shapes don't forget to unlink so you can do things like feathering adjusting for jitter and unwanted movements first turn off rotation then change the analysis method you can add keyframes and you can re-analyze by selecting the show tracking editor and that's by right-clicking in the track and as with anything practice makes perfect i hope you've learned something from this video so please like subscribe and press the bell to be notified of new tutorials every sunday.

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