From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization

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Adapt to a changing target

Adapt to a changing target - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization

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Adapt to a changing target

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- In this lesson I'm going to show you a somewhat hidden option, that if you don't know about it, may completely change the way you work with the tracker. When you abandon the default setting, the one that compares each successive frame to whichever one was used, to start the track and allow After Effects to instead compare each frame only to the previous one that attract, you get a completely different result. Now, as you can imagine, that result isn't necessarily as purely accurate as the other method, but here's a case where we have a track that has basically broken, and we're going to ask it to instead kind of bend and keep going. Let's see how that goes. So I'll go back to the starting frame of this third track, which as you know went in reverse, and I'll just go into Options here and check Adapt Feature On Every Frame. Now one important note about this, you have to check this on every time you want it. It doesn't stick so if I track this one, and then thought it was good, went…

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