Why are there so few subscribers here? Your videos contain so much unique and really useful information! Thank you! Where's the thousand likes button?)
I dont know I said the same thing last year. this is like top notch, no BS stuff. must've watched his stuff over and over 50 times and always glean some new info NOBODY ever thought to mention.
Amazing video, thank you. I wish more people would make tutorials about difficult/annoying shots. It's easy to track flat surfaces with nothing in foreground, etc. The issues are always with the edge cases. Thank you again. I subscribed.
Hi Bryan. I have lost count of the number of times I have seen this tutorial. Together with the 3D camera tracking tutorial it is a masterclass. Really, thank you very much for sharing it
I hate that most youtubers demonstrate screen tracking and replacement with the most simple shots imaginable while in reality you need to work with much more complex footage. so thank you very much for making an actually useful tutorial. would have loved though if you also did the screen replacement, demonstrating how to get a good key and realistically composite something onto the phone. one thing i find particularly challenging is dealing with reflections of the fingers on the green screen. could you consider making a tutorial which covers this?
Hey Steve thanks for the suggestion. I was planning on doing one on this very issue with screen replacement and keeping the reflections. Hopefully soon! Thanks!
Let me weight in with the repetitive comments: finally someone who teaches tracking properly without any hype but just useful, straight to the point knowledge. I was getting crazy and this video explains very well how to fix lost tracks! Thank you!
all the "bigger" youtubers dont cover things like that, I worked with the planar tracker quite a while and for my understanding so many people dont know how to use this tool properly. Thank you for being an exception!
Your videos are super helpful - very detailed and presented to address real world usage. I'm subscribed to your channel and always look forward to new instructional videos. Thank you for publishing these!
Please tell us how to change a fusion clone stroke to the foreground, so the single clone stroke can be copied to any frame and adjusted on any chosen frame. Thank you so much for all you do, Sir!
Pretty slick. I didn't know you could pause the track, change the track focus, and then resume the tracking. I just went back to a shaky track and that helped a lot. There's still much I don't know but this helped a lot.
It's convenient how everything in these tracker tutorials has that green background with black crosses and is moving slowly. What about fast pace tracking - like highlighting a player as they run with the ball in sports analysis like you see them do on TV.
@@prophetless thanks mate I really hope it works out too! A lot riding on it to be honest. My biggest worry is the last few frames or so I have less than half a phone in view and nothing to attach the tracker to as everything is moving.
Thanks a lot for sharing! Great content. Great teaching style! You should do an "Advanced Fusion Course". I'm certainly ready to pay for that 👍😊 It's hard to find anything but "Fusion page for beginners" done by all the click hungry youtubers, all going through the same easy stuff. We need to see the real potential of fusion. Show us please 😀 I always think I need After Effects and Mocha pro, but with tutorials like this I learn that I don't. I already have the tools in Fusion.
Great tutorial! Thanks so much! I've got a problem though: When I append the track with a different region my corner pin jumps to the location of the tracked area instead of staying in place... any idea how to fix this?
Sounds like you might be appending the reference frame. If you do that it will move the corner pin. If you append the spline to track on any other frame it will center to the reference frame.
Hi, thx again for your tutorial. For this kind of comp, the goal is to set, after tracking, the merge mode of the tracker on "BG over FG" and apply a keying on the green part, ... but in that case, to get rid of the marking crosses is painful lol ... I masked each cross with an ellipse on a lumakeyer placed after the deltakeyer but the result is not perfect when the cross is partialy covered by a finger.
Did you try to pull a luma key on the finger? You might be able to pull a key on the finger and add it back on top at the end of the composition. Or you might have to do a rotoscope for the finger to get it to look right.
no I didn't, but finally with little trims the result is not that bad, but for sure this is not an easy tracking. I didn't use perspective at the beginning of the track (I mean starting from the end of the comp) but Afine+TRS, then manual corner pin at the beginning of the comp for around 30 frames
Finally! Someone got these difficult one done. Thank you so much for that!! I have a question. You know how you added the mask in the beginning to exclude hand and the coat, could you give us some insight how you can do this using magic mask? like while using planar tracker, how can i include magic masked result in to the planar tracker? please help!
Thx.vm, Prophet, meanwhile I learned more about it in the very coooooool "handy screen moving" video tut here on your platform. But i hang at the point where you got the alpha for the finger from?!
Cool video! Quick question : There is a little handy way to paint out stuff in fusion using the planar, track, set it to steady, copy the planar tracker and invert the steady. Then you can merge it back with the original footage, and everything you do in there kinda stays in place if your track is good enought. Do you know if there is a way to translate that info you did in the corner pin tab to to the steady tab? I'm trying it out but the steady part dosen't seem to listen to my corner pin fix when the tracker get's a little off
Thanks! I would probably approach it a little differently. Instead of doing the corner pin in the planar tracker do it in between the steady/invert steady, just like you would for paint work. Then you can animate the corner pin and everything should line up.
@@prophetless man I understand, we all have busy lives, Im just grateful for whatever you put out. and I just now watched this and once again, after 2 years in fusion I had no idea we could actually change motion type in a layering fashion like that as we go along. thats cool. thanks as always, and by the way, been playing with "lockdown" quite a bit and its a REALLY fun plugin. OK, looking forward to the next one my man, hope alls well over there.
I need an advice please ! I’m tracking an airplane. Airplane goes behind the trees and after 2 seconds it comes out again. At this point when airplane is behind the tree I do loose tracking. What should I do to avoid this ? Thank you 😊
This one is just about the tracking but there are many out there about the screen replacement. I'm actually working on one now that deals with compositing the screens. Should be out soon.
A more detailed example of adding an occlusion mask is in this video: th-cam.com/video/zQGiYTSnYZI/w-d-xo.html The only difference is I used a magic mask instead of Polygons to make the mask. Or are you referring to how to do the animated mask?
Make sure you have it connected to the right input. You can tell if it's correct when you start tracking, if you have show trackers and trails turned on in options, You should only see trackers show up in the areas you want. A second thing to look out for is you may need to invert your mask.
When you say you " skip to a frame " to track, do you mean you started tracking and then skipped over some frames and are trying to start tracking again? If so The planar tracker won't let you do that. One of the limitations, at least right now. You can move the pattern around and track other things but you can't skip frames.
@@prophetless When I turn on Planar Tracking and I click “Track Forward” or “Track to End” it freezes and I have to restart. It only renders 5% of the 5 second clip, is it just because my laptop is too slow?
Was a great not to political correct tutorial 👍 I only miss that you complete the tracking with adding a deltakeyer and a picture to put on the phone so we can see the final result 🤓
@@prophetless yeah you have a need sub! couse this is the type of problems i end up with everytime i edit, and i always look for easy videos to follow. quick recaps on how to do thing :)
You can check this out: th-cam.com/video/Nin66hrSy9c/w-d-xo.html It's long but there are timestamps so you can jump around. There are other videos if you look in the 3D Tracking playlist
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:47 Adding planar track
1:24 Masks for occlusion
2:30 Changing motion type
4:02 Changing the track pattern
5:25 Checking accuracy of track
7:34 Animating the corner pin
10:05 Using transform to animate shape
Finally someone explains how to make manual adjustments when the automatic planar tracking loses its way. Thank you! You have a new fan!
Thanks!
Finally! Someone that actually covers the topic properly. Thank you.
Thanks! I'm glad the video was helpful! I appreciate the comment it makes it all the more worth while to do them.
Why are there so few subscribers here? Your videos contain so much unique and really useful information! Thank you!
Where's the thousand likes button?)
Haha. I really don't know. Thanks so much for the comment. People like you who find the videos useful make it worth while. Thanks!
I dont know I said the same thing last year. this is like top notch, no BS stuff. must've watched his stuff over and over 50 times and always glean some new info NOBODY ever thought to mention.
Had to leave a comment. Amazing! Actual professional method. Different from most of the incomplete videos regarding planner tracking. Thanks!
Thanks! And thanks for the comment!
Amazing video, thank you. I wish more people would make tutorials about difficult/annoying shots. It's easy to track flat surfaces with nothing in foreground, etc. The issues are always with the edge cases. Thank you again. I subscribed.
Thanks! More to come soon.
Hi Bryan. I have lost count of the number of times I have seen this tutorial. Together with the 3D camera tracking tutorial it is a masterclass. Really, thank you very much for sharing it
You're very welcome! It always makes me happy when I hear these videos help people out. Thanks!
I hate that most youtubers demonstrate screen tracking and replacement with the most simple shots imaginable while in reality you need to work with much more complex footage. so thank you very much for making an actually useful tutorial. would have loved though if you also did the screen replacement, demonstrating how to get a good key and realistically composite something onto the phone. one thing i find particularly challenging is dealing with reflections of the fingers on the green screen. could you consider making a tutorial which covers this?
Hey Steve thanks for the suggestion. I was planning on doing one on this very issue with screen replacement and keeping the reflections. Hopefully soon! Thanks!
Amazing tutorial, because you use difficult shots to track. Thank you, keep it up!
Thanks!
This is a much needed tutorial, almost all tutorials use best cases.
Thanks!
this video is pure gold.
Thanks! Glad the video is helpful!
Let me weight in with the repetitive comments: finally someone who teaches tracking properly without any hype but just useful, straight to the point knowledge. I was getting crazy and this video explains very well how to fix lost tracks! Thank you!
You're very welcome! Always glad to hear the videos are helpful.
Thank you for this! I couldn't find a this detailed explanation of the planar tracker possibilities anywhere. Saved me hours!
You are welcome! Makes me happy to know the videos help! Thanks.
all the "bigger" youtubers dont cover things like that, I worked with the planar tracker quite a while and for my understanding so many people dont know how to use this tool properly. Thank you for being an exception!
Thanks! Glad the videos are helpful.
Yes, this is the best tutorial for explaining tracks that are being occluded or slipping off of the subject. Thanks!
You're very welcome!
Your logo is how I always sign my initials. - sincerely D. Peezy.
P.s, can't wait to get back to my pc and follow along with the vid!
Haha! Thanks!
Your videos are super helpful - very detailed and presented to address real world usage. I'm subscribed to your channel and always look forward to new instructional videos. Thank you for publishing these!
Thanks! I have a new one coming out this week probably on Thursday morning.
this is the only da vinci planar tracking video you need
I can't thank you enough. you are a lifesaver. OMG, I have been looking for videos that can help me track a difficult shot like this.
Thanks! Glad it was helpful!
Please tell us how to change a fusion clone stroke to the foreground, so the single clone stroke can be copied to any frame and adjusted on any chosen frame. Thank you so much for all you do, Sir!
Pretty slick. I didn't know you could pause the track, change the track focus, and then resume the tracking. I just went back to a shaky track and that helped a lot. There's still much I don't know but this helped a lot.
NIce! Glad the video was helpful
Really complex tracking and an interesting approach to correction. Stunningly
Thanks!
It's convenient how everything in these tracker tutorials has that green background with black crosses and is moving slowly. What about fast pace tracking - like highlighting a player as they run with the ball in sports analysis like you see them do on TV.
Awesome! Just what I was looking for :)
Glad I could help! Thanks!
This shot is so similar to the shot I’m working on and I have been pulling my hair out. If this ends up achieving what I need I owe you a damned beer!
Nice! I'm always up for a beer! Hope it works out!
@@prophetless thanks mate I really hope it works out too! A lot riding on it to be honest. My biggest worry is the last few frames or so I have less than half a phone in view and nothing to attach the tracker to as everything is moving.
Thanks a lot for sharing! Great content. Great teaching style! You should do an "Advanced Fusion Course". I'm certainly ready to pay for that 👍😊 It's hard to find anything but "Fusion page for beginners" done by all the click hungry youtubers, all going through the same easy stuff. We need to see the real potential of fusion. Show us please 😀 I always think I need After Effects and Mocha pro, but with tutorials like this I learn that I don't. I already have the tools in Fusion.
Thanks! Working on a bunch of different things right now. One of which will be some intermediate/advanced courses.
@@prophetless can't wait! 👍 🙂
Exactly what I was looking for! Finally someone who uses difficult footage! Earned a sub
Thanks!
Very informative, big thanx! These methods also can be applied in After Effects I think
You are welcome! Yes I think most if not all can be used in AE, the techniques are pretty universal.
what was the root masks for occlusion ? first I saw it, are they tracked?
Yes 1:35 I tracked them ahead of time to occlude the hand and shoulder.
@@prophetless How does these root masks work?
@@robertmoran They are masks (polygons) for cutting out the objects you don't want to track with the planar tracker.
Great tutorial! Thanks so much!
I've got a problem though: When I append the track with a different region my corner pin jumps to the location of the tracked area instead of staying in place... any idea how to fix this?
Sounds like you might be appending the reference frame. If you do that it will move the corner pin. If you append the spline to track on any other frame it will center to the reference frame.
Wow this was so helpful.!
Thank you
You're so welcome!
Hi, thx again for your tutorial. For this kind of comp, the goal is to set, after tracking, the merge mode of the tracker on "BG over FG" and apply a keying on the green part, ... but in that case, to get rid of the marking crosses is painful lol ... I masked each cross with an ellipse on a lumakeyer placed after the deltakeyer but the result is not perfect when the cross is partialy covered by a finger.
Did you try to pull a luma key on the finger? You might be able to pull a key on the finger and add it back on top at the end of the composition. Or you might have to do a rotoscope for the finger to get it to look right.
no I didn't, but finally with little trims the result is not that bad, but for sure this is not an easy tracking. I didn't use perspective at the beginning of the track (I mean starting from the end of the comp) but Afine+TRS, then manual corner pin at the beginning of the comp for around 30 frames
Finally! Someone got these difficult one done. Thank you so much for that!! I have a question. You know how you added the mask in the beginning to exclude hand and the coat, could you give us some insight how you can do this using magic mask? like while using planar tracker, how can i include magic masked result in to the planar tracker? please help!
Try using a bitmap node after the magic mask before you plug it in to the mask for the planar tracker.
Just put a video up explaining this if you want to check it out: th-cam.com/video/zQGiYTSnYZI/w-d-xo.html
Great tutorial. Just what I was looking for. How do I color correct the image in the phone once its in there? I assume in fusion as well?
Thanks! You can just add a color correct in fusion right after the image that you are using to replace.
Thank you so much !
You're most welcome!
Excellent video. Wish to God I'd found this earlier!
Thanks!
Thank you
You're welcome
wow...exactly what I need. Almost...how do I cut out shoulder and fingers? With a delta mask? Thanks. Cheers...
In this example I used a polygon mask(rotoscoping) but you can use whatever type of masking tool you want depending on the shot.
Thx.vm, Prophet, meanwhile I learned more about it in the very coooooool "handy screen moving" video tut here on your platform. But i hang at the point where you got the alpha for the finger from?!
I replied to your other comment on the screen replacement video for anyone else that has the same issue. th-cam.com/video/MTYjCp-hxjQ/w-d-xo.html
Excellent. Thanks for sharing
Thanks Maxime!
Excellent.
Thanks!
Cool video! Quick question : There is a little handy way to paint out stuff in fusion using the planar, track, set it to steady, copy the planar tracker and invert the steady. Then you can merge it back with the original footage, and everything you do in there kinda stays in place if your track is good enought. Do you know if there is a way to translate that info you did in the corner pin tab to to the steady tab? I'm trying it out but the steady part dosen't seem to listen to my corner pin fix when the tracker get's a little off
Thanks! I would probably approach it a little differently. Instead of doing the corner pin in the planar tracker do it in between the steady/invert steady, just like you would for paint work. Then you can animate the corner pin and everything should line up.
@@prophetless thanks gonna try that👍
Channel full of gold here people, sign up!
dude yes! I been waiting for a new one. thank you!!
Hey Teddy. You're welcome. Sorry it's been awhile. I'm trying to get videos out a little more frequently.
@@prophetless man I understand, we all have busy lives, Im just grateful for whatever you put out. and I just now watched this and once again, after 2 years in fusion I had no idea we could actually change motion type in a layering fashion like that as we go along. thats cool. thanks as always, and by the way, been playing with "lockdown" quite a bit and its a REALLY fun plugin. OK, looking forward to the next one my man, hope alls well over there.
I need an advice please ! I’m tracking an airplane. Airplane goes behind the trees and after 2 seconds it comes out again. At this point when airplane is behind the tree I do loose tracking. What should I do to avoid this ? Thank you 😊
Take a look at this video and see if it helps. If not let me know. th-cam.com/video/7LDqxUXgYm0/w-d-xo.html
Great tutorial ! How did you make those roto shapes ?
Thanks! I did those before hand using the polygon.
@@prophetless Thank you for your reply. Do you have a tutorial for that ?
@@UraFlight I don't yet but it's on my list to do
But why does nobody put the footage behind the green screen after it’s tracked?
This one is just about the tracking but there are many out there about the screen replacement. I'm actually working on one now that deals with compositing the screens. Should be out soon.
Spot on fella, cheers 👍
Thanks!
What is the difrerent between surface traker and traker ?
The planar tracker is used for a planar surface and the surface tracker is mainly used for deforming surfaces.
Is it possible to track a mask in polygon ?
Yes. Check out this video and let me know if it helps. th-cam.com/video/lukMkZr0t0I/w-d-xo.html
Good tutorial but it is missing how you made the polygon work for you
A more detailed example of adding an occlusion mask is in this video: th-cam.com/video/zQGiYTSnYZI/w-d-xo.html The only difference is I used a magic mask instead of Polygons to make the mask. Or are you referring to how to do the animated mask?
By the way if you are using polygons for your mask you won't need to add the bitmap like in the referred video.
One question ? Can I resolve it with surface tracker ?
You probably could by bringing the mesh rigidity up, but for this shot I think the planar tracker is better suited.
Thankyou very much....
You're welcome!
The masking out the object not working
Make sure you have it connected to the right input. You can tell if it's correct when you start tracking, if you have show trackers and trails turned on in options, You should only see trackers show up in the areas you want. A second thing to look out for is you may need to invert your mask.
When I skip to a frame to do simple letter tracking, it crashes. Help?
Are you using the Beta version of Davinci Resolve/Fusion? It could be just the version of the software you are using.
@@prophetless I’m currently using 17, on a Windows Laptop.
HP
Intel Core i3
I can’t find the model number.
@@prophetless I had 18 beta before then switched to 17 because of fps issues.
When you say you " skip to a frame " to track, do you mean you started tracking and then skipped over some frames and are trying to start tracking again? If so The planar tracker won't let you do that. One of the limitations, at least right now. You can move the pattern around and track other things but you can't skip frames.
@@prophetless When I turn on Planar Tracking and I click “Track Forward” or “Track to End” it freezes and I have to restart. It only renders 5% of the 5 second clip, is it just because my laptop is too slow?
Thanks!!
Welcome!
Makes sense but how do I make the occlusion mask😂😂😂
Haha. Should be a tutorial out there on that I hope. If not I'll do one sometime soon.
Resolve/Fusion just has a garbage tracker. This should be a very simple task for AI to identify & hold the tracked area to the pixel.
Was a great not to political correct tutorial 👍 I only miss that you complete the tracking with adding a deltakeyer and a picture to put on the phone so we can see the final result 🤓
Thanks. I will definitely do some keying tutorials in the future.
@@prophetless yeah you have a need sub! couse this is the type of problems i end up with everytime i edit, and i always look for easy videos to follow. quick recaps on how to do thing :)
do you have a video of the "camera tracker" ? and how to implement objects or persons in like a gaming world while the world is in motion
You can check this out: th-cam.com/video/Nin66hrSy9c/w-d-xo.html It's long but there are timestamps so you can jump around. There are other videos if you look in the 3D Tracking playlist
@@prophetless yeah i have seen it, but its to long to much not easy plug and play and easy tutorial. 😂