Lockdown 2.7 Adjustment Tracking

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[@yoshkinesash9359]

Thank you very much for the plugin and tutorials. I've tried mocha pro, but your trck poins control is outstanding imho, adding one by one etc. And now- expanding- I,m completelly happy. Don't need to install and try any motion bro for this kind of work. Just super. Now I think how to attach 3d ears to the finely animated rabbit masks on those kindergarteners. But so far so very good. Thanks again, an outstanding work!

[@AgabaLH]

Haven’t seen a tutorial on how to add effects or transfer this tracking to the after effects panel and applying effects on it

[@Artisdoxi]

Holy Cow! Perfect example, wondering i could attacht lights or null objects to the mesh points?

[@ChrisVranos]

You can externalize a point and copy the keyframes to a null as position data. Select a point on the mesh from inside the popout. Close the popout. Press externalize point. Press U to reveal those keyframes. Then copy and paste them out of the plugin.

[@charlesagnew3801]

It's really difficult to maintain the aspect ratio of my text from extreme skewing and stretching. Any tips or trick as to how to get good clean tracks with very complicated surfaces?

[@ChrisVranos]

It's tough to say without seeing the shot. Feel free to send in a help ticket with the footage. I can't promise I have a fix, but if I'm glad to look. If you can't send because of NDAs, I'd try to track using as few points as possible. I know that sounds counter intuitive, but often the worst distortion is happening because there are too many points to manually correct, and they're all just a little off and it adds up. Then add points one by one after you've established a good base. Also, try to set the hero frame on the most flat and large frame of the shot. Things tend to shrink better than they grow, so starting on the larger frame helps me.

[@abedieckman7894]

Would really love it if there were individual UI Buttons for each tracking point type. I have a reeeeally hard time figuring and remembering how to add each kind, and even when I do it seems I often don't actually create the kind I intended.

[@ChrisVranos]

A blue point is default, and will track when you press the track button. A brown point means a point is 'locked' and won't track when you press the track button. Both types of points will interpolate on any frames where they don't have tracking keyframes. You can lock or unlock any point by selecting it and using the buttons that look like open and closed padlocks in the bottom right. So ctrl clicking creates an unlocked blue point, ctrl alt shift clicking makes a locked brown point. But you can change the lock status of any point at will with those buttons. I guess it was probably a bad idea to call a 'locked point' an extension point in some tutorials when technically a locked point and an extension point are the same thing. And an adjustment point is not its own type of point, it just indicates there's an adjustment keyframe on that point's current frame. (All points have and need at least one adjustment keyframe.) I can't think of any more info but let me know if you have questions. It's only confusing because I'm bad at my job.

[@sthJuniorPK]

I think I started having too much fun using this the other night lol. I just kept creating new tracks after my stabilization was well beyond good enough. I GOT ADDICTED lol

[@ChrisVranos]

That's exactly what I like to hear. And it gets easier with each point added... It can never be stable enough.

[@anmstudio]

can we export the track point to 3d null in After Effect? :D

[@ChrisVranos]

These points are just 2d data. You can export them to 2d using the externalize points button though

[@bengabelman4507]

yessssssss