
Toggle off any of the checkboxes if you don’t want to apply all the transforms.

Play the clip to preview the result.īy default, the motion track will copy the position, rotation, and scale information of the tracked region and apply it to the new clip. The motion of the tree will now be automatically applied to the text object. When the analysis is completed, the image in the viewer will fill with grey tracker points and you will be prompted to draw around the area that you wish to follow the motion.įor example, click and drag around the big tree on the right side of the screen so that the text will follow it. Once you have selected the clip, an analysis of the motion in the footage will automatically start. Open the Motion Track folder and select the video clip to track. Select Motion Track from the pop-up list of behaviors. In the timeline, select the top clip, such as the text clip, and click on the + icon beside Behaviors. The Motion Track effect is found in Behaviors within the Controls panel.

In this example, the beach clip contains camera motion, and the text element above it will follow along. The graphic or text element needs to be on a video track in the timeline above the background clip that contains the motion to be followed. This produces the effect of a graphic element or a text element following either the general camera motion of the video, or the motion of a specific object or region within the video. Motion tracking analyzes movements within a video and allows you to automatically apply the motion onto another clip composited over this video.
