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

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Offset a tracker

Offset a tracker - After Effects Tutorial

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

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Offset a tracker

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- You could say that by showing you this Adapt Feature On Every Frame option I've made your tracks less accurate and more mediocre, and that'd be a little harsh. But in fact, it is kind of true. If we look at this track, it's holding firm to this point right at the top of the couch, and that's really the point we want to track. That's where our mask is going to sit, right on the top, and now it's drifting away. Now, before we go and just correct for that, let's see if we can get a more accurate track just of the top of the couch. And to do that, I'm going to show you an option that many, if not most, After Effects users don't know about and come up with crazy workarounds to try to avoid. So, I'll delete the key frames here that were the result of having the Adapt Feature On Every Frame option on, and turn it off. And I'm going to take this track as far as it will go, which is not very far before this arm comes in, so the arm coming in messed up the track because prior to that we had…

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