How to make the Golf Tracer effect | Apple Motion

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Full disclosure, some of those comments have AI generated images, as they were actually emails I got, and I didn’t have an icon for them!

[@Bodytribechip]

Perfect timing. I'm the new social media director for a golf course as of today. This lesson will be put to use a lot.

[@Richard_Broom_Photography]

Scotland, as I am sure you will know, is the home of golf but, with two golf courses within a 10 minute drive of my house, I know nothing about golf and don't own any golf sticks. All that said, I plan to use the techniques you describe in your excellent tutorial to 'track' the movement of cars, people, aircraft and so on. I can see lots of different uses for these techniques. So, as ever, an excellent tutorial and the people of Scotland (golfers and otherwise) salute, appreciate and admire you. Thank you for all your hard work. And, as we say in Scotland: 'Tis fin tae dae th' impossible and that you certainly do weekly.

[@dylanjohndickerson]

I expect a doggo appearance every video.

[@SGNetwork01]

THE HERO WE DIDNT KNOW WE NEEDED!!!

[@Gjeebs]

Really well done tutorial. Thank you

[@RonaldHouston]

Omg. This is so totally Awesome. I always wonder how to do this. I watch all your videos and here it is. I have all your plug-ins. They are the most used in my videos. You are the best

[@ilirbajrami2902]

Man, do you read my mind? Last night i started using Motion for the first time and i did your first example exactly all by myself only not with a golf ball but with some locations on the map.

[@eckiedoo]

Brilliant mate, my project this week.

[@JV..]

Is there anyway to make the particles/circles be a logo? New to motion and your tutorial is amazing, helped me a lot

[@rellevisionnetwork]

Definitely needed this thank you

[@touristeaugolf]

Just discoverd your channel, your explanation are so clear, I'm learning a lot !!! Very beginner here with motion so long read ahead to learn. I have a question. How to I create the shot tracer (first method) on a moving footage ? What I want is after a golf shot, I would like to show a drone footage with a shot tracer leaving from the place I hit the ball to the place the ball end ! So drone is moving and I fail to understand how I can trace this shot tracer !!!!

[@johngoble]

How could we save this as a "template" so we don't have to recreate every time?

[@jack5658]

Hey man great vid! I tried the particle emitter method but it wasn’t quite working since I can’t see the ball land. I’d sort of need to mix the two methods together. I was wondering if you could do a tutorial where you use multiple bezier points to make the arc and then use key frames to animate the tracer movement?

[@IMPACTSHOOTING]

Can this be done in FCPX?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Unfortunately not with the base tools. It might be possible with a plugin, but I don't know which plugin that would be.

[@ClintonWaller]

particle emitters.. is there anything they CAN'T do?! great Motion 5 tutorial, thx for putting this out there.

[@SGNetwork01]

My guy!!!!!

[@Hozzleandhack]

Can you do an updated video on this with FCP’s recent object tracking updates? Much appreciated!! 🙏🏻

[@TheFinalCutBro]

It's unfortunately still not good enough to track a golfball! They are just way too fast and small for the tracker to pick it up. Hopefully someday!

[@Hozzleandhack]

@@TheFinalCutBro bummer! Thanks for the response 🤝🏻

[@SebastianCristanchoYT]

FINALLLLLLLLLYYYYY LETS GOOOO!!!!

[@SebastianCristanchoYT]

Just finished the video I’m disappointed there isn’t an automatic way to do this! I feel like it must be so easy and fast in After Effects since @goodgood uses shot tracers non stop but I don’t actually know how they do it

[@TheFinalCutBro]

So technically you could use a tracker for this. But golf balls are just too small and fast for the trackers to hold at all. I do know there is software made specifically for golf that can add tracers as well, and those have specifically designed algorithms around tracking the ball. Might be worth looking into!

[@Mattybergs93]

Hey! I'm having issues with moving the emitter places, it seems like it's making every frame a key frame and there's no no points happening. Is there a setting I'm missing that can help this?

[@DanielMorgan1]

Hey man, I’ve recent come across your channel and it’s very helpful. I’m just wondering though if you would know a way to create a dynamic light border around a Picture in Picture? Both MrWhoseTheBoss and Ali Abdaal achieve this sort of effect. Alternatively, where would you recommend to go in order to learn motion from scratch so I can build the knowledge to figure this out for myself?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

This videos got you covered! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eafNqZWoo7ipbqssi=H79Q6jAufrumaqiO

[@seb-depp]

Very cool. Unfortunately I don't have anything to do with golf so I won't need this. But maybe some other flying object some other time. Couldn't this have been done with a tracker as well?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

With golf balls being so tiny and fast, the tracker just doesn’t work at all. That said, if you had a larger and slower object the tracker would 100% work with that second method!

[@sidddey]

🎉❤love for the doggo…..wots her/his name?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Nala! She’s a rescue, and has a large scar across her paw. We started thinking about the name Scar, but that felt too much like a boy name. And then we noticed the way she plays with our other doggo is very much like Nala in the Lion King. She pins him and flips him over haha! So we decided Nala was a perfect name for her.

[@AbhinavSoniPhotography]

Please make one Tutorial on how to edit like @MacVince

[@bamrainey]

Hey Dylan, I recently found the way to make a LOCKED ON effect with rotation in FCP with no plugins and I haven't seen anyone talking about this. All the videos are only teach how to make the effect with no rotation. Would you like to be the first one to make a video about it? I'll share the method. It's the same but with a few unobvious extra steps.

[@johngoble]

Did you make a tutorial? I'd like to see it

[@bamrainey]

@@johngoble nope, I did not