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Fine-tuning your tracking

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Fine-tuning your tracking

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- Now what we've done so far is a pretty straightforward track. What happens when it gets a little more complicated? That's what we're going to talk about right now. We're going to start with the same shot we used before, with Grandma, except we're not going to track Grandma, we're going to track Grandson here. And the problem is, he moves out of screen. How are we going to deal with this? Well, let's first find a nice, easy point where to set up our initial power window that we want to track to him, and in my mind, that's the last frame of this shot. I'll turn on our circular power window and very quickly shape it to his face, a little aspect ratio, a little resizing, and a little bit of rotation, I usually like matching the kind of oblong shape of the face, if your head's tilted one way or the other, I like to match that up. Now we'll jump into the tracker, and we're going to track backwards. And one of two things are going to happen. It's either going to follow the face offscreen…

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