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Dealing with obscuration

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Dealing with obscuration

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I've chosen which two dots to track with my two track points to stabilize Position, Rotation, and Scale, but I have a problem where one of actors walks in front of one of those dots. So I need to be careful with how it set up the After Effects options as well as the search region around this second track point. First, I'll go into the Options dialog. I always need to look at Channel. In this case, I've light green versus dark green. So Luminance is my best choice. I've removed any fields or pull down from this footage. No need to Track Fields, always leave Subpixel Positioning on. Since the back of this green screen was towards the back of the stage and therefore out of focus, he starts a little bit on the fuzzy side. If you've trouble getting a good track, you might want to try Process Before Match and Enhance or sharpen the footage, but I can leave that off for starters. The real important thing is how to set up these parameters down here. I don't need to Adapt the Feature On Every…

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