5 Practical Ways to Use FCP’s Built in Object Tracker

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~~~~~ 🔴 CHAPTERS 🔴 ~~~~~
00:00 - 5 Practical Ways to Use FCP’s Built-in Object Tracker
00:24 - Color Grading
02:46 - Track Text
05:37 - Censor or Blur Objects
06:30 - Add a Logo
09:04 - Isolate an Object
You probably already know by now that Final Cut Pro now has built in tracking but what you might not know is these 5 different practical ways to use the built-in tracking feature. In this video I'll show you the basics of how to use the built-in object tracker but also how the Final Cut Pro tracker can be used in various ways. Having the ability to track natively inside Final Cut Pro without the need for third party plugins is a game changer.
I’m also going to show you the difference between the machine learning and point cloud tracking methods later.
Remember, you need to make sure you are running Final Cut Pro 10.6 and MacOS Big Sur or later in order to see the tracking feature.
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What are you going to use the object tracker for? Let me know! 😊👇🏼

[@duncanwilliams3825]

Probably for titles..thank you for all ur videos

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My pleasure Duncan! Appreciate you watching 😊🙏🏼

[@Al-ImprovEd2022]

I have to make a video about basketball and would love to do something slick with the object tracker so I'm looking for creative ideas ... Thanks for this video. Helpful.

[@Brad_West]

Glad it was helpful to you! You could track the players and add names/positions or anything like that 😄

[@Al-ImprovEd2022]

@@Brad_West thanks. That’s an idea. I’m trying to do something like U2’s Window in the Sky version that starts with soccer ball, birds, etc.., since the video is about the players b ball career and chronological. Going to be challenging.

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This was excellent. Thank you for sharing. Your explanations are great - appreciate the step by step + details about why you choose specific options, etc. Your editing is very sophisticated and I’m learning a lot from your channel.

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[@SoNowWhat]

Excellent tutorial, and very creative use of tracking. Thank you.

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That was a good tutorial - easy to follow, not unnecessarily long, and providing useful examples. Nice job! - Martin

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great clear tutorial Brad! thank you for sharing

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As always, Brad, this was very helpful! Thank you!

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[@Erik-Soccer-Boardsports-07]

Very helpful. Option 5 is exactly what I was looking for to highlight my daughter in a soccer game for promoting her to colleges. Appreciate. you taking the time.

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I'm really glad that you found this video so helpful Erik 😄 All the best for your daughter's college applications!

[@terryhur]

That was a fantastic tutorial. It was so well explained, it was not just easy to follow but also great to learn how this works too! Thank you!

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Perfectly explained, thank you so much! :)

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[@JoannaGryzewska]

I enjoyed this video a lot! I’m so happy that FCP finally introduced tracking tool and I’m happy that you covered all those ways of use it! Super useful!

[@Brad_West]

Thanks Joanna! Yeah we’ve all been waiting a long time for built-in tracking. Glad we finally have it 😄🙌🏼

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Thanks so much!! 😄🙏🏼 If you have any other ideas for tutorials that will help you, let me know 👍🏼

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Subscribed, simply because of how clear this tutorial was!

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Truly appreciate the support Joshua. Thanks 😄👊🏼

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[@lucasblaise]

This is perfect! I was just talking about this with a colleague. Good topic and tips!

[@Brad_West]

Thanks Lucas! Im so glad we finally having tracking natively in FCP 😂🙏🏼

[@chrisgatesrn9837]

New to the subscription and never used as an editor any tracker. Really learned mountains from you on this video. I am a full time RN but when retired plan to be prolific in production.

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Glad to hear it Chris! Hopefully you'll learn something new the upcoming videos too.

[@matemaric_]

very useful tutorial. thank you very much

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[@flagshipdigitalarts]

Thank you that was far more informative than many other videos on this subject. Got just the info i needed! :)

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Glad it was helpful! Appreciate you watching!

[@MattOBrien]

this is the first video that actually made the tracker make sense to me thank yoooou

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I’m so happy to hear that Matt! 😊🙏🏼 Appreciate you watching!

[@BecomeUseful]

This was really helpful. Thanks

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[@lawrencecompanylimited]

i came here for tracking, and I left learning so much more,, thank you brother

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Great to hear! I'm so glad you found the tips helpful. Appreciate you watching.

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Thank you Thank you Thank you I've been beating myself down trying to learn this tracking effect inside FCP and your tutorial has really helped me out so much so once again thank you keep doing great things sir... Subscribed!!!!!

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Helped a lot man, thank you!

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Great tips! Thanks so much for sharing! 👍🏻

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[@FamilyFilmmaker]

Thanks for your tutorial ! Several of the options are very useful for my next project.

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Thanks for doing it. Great job

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Excellent! Thanks.

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Awesome video 🖤Learned a few new things about the FCPX tracker I didn’t pick up on when the update came out. Liked and Subscribed! 👍

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That’s awesome! I’m so glad to hear that 😊🙏🏼 Thanks for watching and for the support Mark 👊🏼

[@korakistudios]

very very helpful... thank you for this!

[@Brad_West]

You are so welcome 😊🙏🏼

[@AlexTene]

Even though I already knew how to do this, it was nice to watch this video. I like how you make your tutorials - to the point. I recently moved back to Final Cut after 5 years of editing in Premiere Pro and I must say I was so surprised that Final Cut has tracking built in.....awesome!

[@Brad_West]

Thank you so much for your feedback! 😊🙏🏼 I’m so glad we finally have tracking in FCP! We’ve BEEN waiting 😂 A few years ago I really tried to get into Premiere and I couldn’t do it. Just not for me. Welcome back to FCP!

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Good topic! Love it. Thanks for your tutorial

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Awesome Video! Just swiched from IMovie over to Final Cut for my Planespotting Videos and this channel is soo much help thanks again :D

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Great tips!

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Excellent tutorial.

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Hey, guy! Your video helping me to undertand, HOW it works. THANKS a lot!

[@Brad_West]

Thanks so much! I'm really happy to hear that you found the video helpful 😄

[@elturkocharro4106]

Man, this feature was there the whole time, and I just realized it exists!! I was almost purchasing a tool for doing this tracking thing. I'll take a close look and do my tests, so wish me a look!!

[@Brad_West]

It’s great to finally have built in tracking in FCP. I’m sure you’ll enjoy using it 😄🤙🏼

[@m00photo92]

Awesome tutorial bro I love your videos I learnt a lot for sure

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I’m so glad to hear that. I try to give as much info as possible 😊👍🏼

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So handy! It's great to finally have some built in tracking tools.

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Nice vid! Thanks

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Thank you so much~ Using it to have a cartoon money ride some text smoothly!

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That sounds like fun! Glad you found the video helpful! 😄

[@JoJoEdits]

You should make like an hour video of going over the whole process of how you make a KZbin video. From start to finish. I’m new to FCP and your tutorials always help

[@Brad_West]

That’s an interesting idea Joseph. Thanks for the feedback. Out of curiosity, if I made an hour long video, would you watch a video that long? 🤔

[@ccruz247]

@@Brad_West maybe not a whole hour long video. But definitely a playlist of smaller videos

[@Brad_West]

Really appreciate your feedback Calvin! 😊🙏🏼

[@OfficialJasonChaneyShow]

Brad typically I wouldn’t watch that long. However, after coming across your channel being new to FCP X I most certainly would watch every second of it because your explanations and thorough start to finish has been extremely helpful. Thank you.

[@Brad_West]

Wow, thanks for the feedback! Sounds like I should work on a longer video for sure. 😄🙏🏼

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Thank you so much!

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I'm editing simple videos for more than 15 years, first on windows (most of them using a software called powerdirector), than moved to lumafusion for IPAD for 2 or 3 years and in the last months i was trying to use Davini Resolve (but it's a pain to learn, it's VERY difficult in my opinion), 3 days ago i got a macbook air m1, i'm really impressed how easy and complete final cut looks! i will end buying it... Your channel rocks! thanks for the videos! :)

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I think you will be pleasantly surprised at how user friendly FCP is and how quickly you will be able to edit. There are a bunch of tutorials that are bound to helpful you as you start out with FCP. Feel free to ask any questions you might have 😄👍🏼

[@Erik-Soccer-Boardsports-07]

Thanks!

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Wow! Thank you Erik. I appreciate the support 😄🙏🏼

[@NorbiWhitney]

I was having some trouble getting text tracking working properly. Apparently I was going about it all wrong. Thanks for the easy to follow tut!

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My pleasure! I’m glad to hear that you found the tips on this video helpful 😄🙏🏼

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Subscribed love seeing creative kiwis

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Ah man, if only I was a Kiwi 😄 Appreciate the support! 🙏🏼

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Thank you for this tutorial! just got an M1 mac where I can install latest FCPX with tracking plug in :) New sub here!

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Awesome! The new M1 macs are amazing. Thanks for the sub and the support 😄🙏🏼

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH

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Great video

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Thanks! Appreciate you watching!

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tkanks so much

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You’re welcome! 😊🤙🏼

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Just a Hello! Super clear tutorial. BTW I subscribed to your channel. Have a great day B !

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Thanks for the sub @DanVoye! Appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. Have a great rest of the week 😄👊🏼

[@PolluxChung]

I haven't really tried the tracker. I definitely will in the next project

[@Brad_West]

It’s really fun to work with. Let me know what you think of it 😄👍🏼

[@dewhammer]

It would be awesome to see if the FCPX object tracker can fully replace mTracker 3D or just have them compared.

[@Brad_West]

Great idea for a video! I think I’ll definitely do a comparison video 😊🙌🏼

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Another Fantastic tutorial… I have started new with FCP.. but with your tutorial I am getting better… If you can make a video on how to show different dresses of same person across a lamp post… I mean, in left section one dress and other section another dress..

[@Brad_West]

Thanks so much. I’m happy to hear that the tutorials are helpful to you 😊🙌🏼 That’s actually a really cool idea. I’ll add it to my list 😄🙏🏼

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FANTASTIC TUTORIAL! I'm trying to whiten the teeth of a speaker, but not having too much luck. Would love to see a tutorial, specifically about that. Keep up the great work!

[@Brad_West]

Thank you. Great suggestion Quinn! I believe @TheFinalCutBro did a tutorial on just that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/en20ZXd3p99rsLc

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Ha, so I belong to the 19% which are subscribed viewers, Brad? Nice😀! Yet I love to encourage the other 81% to - in light of this video - also keep 'track of you' by subscribing! Thanks for putting this one together. 🙏

[@Brad_West]

Haha 😆 Yes, you’re in that 19% and I appreciate your support 🙏🏼 Glad you enjoyed it Gert-Jan!