Locked on Motion Tracking Effect Tutorial on Shotcut

The locked-on motion tracking effect is a very popular effect with music videos and commercial and now you can do it on Shotcut! Follow my simple step-by-step instructions and you too can do these professional effects. It's exciting what all the new additions are to the 23.05.14 version.
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[@montanafamilytrails]

This is really great info. As for needing to zoom way in to eliminate the black margins... it could be planned for ahead of time. If the specific clip was recorded from a farther away, it would build in extra room to zoom in during post. Extra "real estate" is a great way of putting it. Thanks for the tutorial! ❤

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you for watching!

[@superj-man137]

Finally! I have been doing that manually for over a year! I record presentations and sometimes speakers will walk around a bit instead of standing at a podium. So I track their face and zoom in so I don't have the black lines. This is so awesome!

[@BenEspanto]

Glad I could help

[@totalnonstopholidays]

Thank you for going over the new motion tracking in Shotcut. Gonna try this out myself.

[@BenEspanto]

Glad it was helpful!

[@drytaffin]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

[@BenEspanto]

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[@musicalboxbitspieces]

Wow! How did I miss this? Anyways, here I am now :) Glad to finally see a new full length Ben Espanto Shotcut tutorial. It's been a while ;-) And that's an awesome one! VERY well explained. That filter isn't easy to figure out without instructions. So your video will help a LOT of people, I'm sure. Good job Ben.

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you sir! It's always an honor for a Shotcut pro like you to watch my video!

[@musicalboxbitspieces]

@@BenEspanto oooooh... stop it, you. 😊

[@sinscross440]

I love both of your guy’s useful Shotcut tutorials!

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you!

[@BenEspanto]

LOL

[@chapmansbg]

Thanks mate, well explained. I will be watching some more of your tuts.

[@BenEspanto]

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[@chapmansbg]

@@BenEspanto I fucking will!

[@Dunc4n1d4h0]

Thanks, that is exact effect I was looking for.

[@BenEspanto]

Glad I could help! I'd love for you to subscribe

[@TheDarkArtist66]

Another awesome tutorial Ben. Always appreciate your videos man. Thanks for all your help

[@BenEspanto]

Always appreciative of your support!

[@patlab555]

Great Shotcut tutorial, you explain very well, thank you.

[@BenEspanto]

You're welcome! I'd love for you to subscribe

[@patlab555]

@@BenEspanto No worries, I did subscribe to your channel while I was writing my first comment above with all notifications on ☺ Please have an absolute fantastic day.

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you!

[@deaks4570]

Great explanation Ben. Enjoyed the process😊

[@BenEspanto]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@eliseemongo395]

Thank you so much😭 Many times I thought SH was shit but thanks to you, I see I can do magic 🙏🏽 Hope the programmers of SH continue the amazing job

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you for watching!

[@sergec66049]

Thanks Ben. 👍Always on top of research and innovation.

[@BenEspanto]

I appreciate you!

[@llike5017]

Great course! Thanks!

[@BenEspanto]

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[@user9199_mls5]

great tutorial

[@BenEspanto]

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[@TimBergerRacing]

super helpful. exactly what i need. thanks! 🙏

[@BenEspanto]

Glad it was helpful! I'd love for you to subscribe

[@TimBergerRacing]

just subscribed, thanks. i need this feature to film motorbikes on racetracks. i think it is very useful to focus the bike, then crop the video later from 16:9 to 9:16 for reels. with a tele and the fast bikes its almost impossible to shoot 9:16 right away. is it possible to lock the motion tracker vertically? because if i follow the bike and it is sometimes a bit higher or lower in the frame it doesnt matter. it just should not leave the frame left or right…i hope you get what in mean 😄

[@BenEspanto]

You should be able to hold it steady vertically with a combo of motion tracking and size, position and rotate

[@NeoLeif]

Just awesome! Yeah, I saw it on dance videos on Tiktok and KZbin. I'm doing shorts from my Twitch-Streams and some times I run out of the frame. I'm checking now, if I can have a nice video with the frame following me 😏

[@BenEspanto]

That's awesome! I'd love for you to subscribe!

[@NeoLeif]

@@BenEspanto Hi, I think your content is really great, interesting and could be beneficial for me. But I'm a musician. I just do as less as I need to make good videos. My focus is on music. I wish you all the best with your channel 🙏

[@TheDude1000]

great, btw do u know how to move multiple clips at once. for example when ur almost finished with ur video and want to add something in the middle and u have to create space for it. Thx ; )

[@BenEspanto]

Just create a box around the vids you want to move. It will multiselect and you can drag together

[@Turgineer]

Good tutorial.

[@BenEspanto]

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[@schlomoschapiroorg]

Thanks for the tutorial! I tried using it with a 45 min long video (keeping a speaker centered), but loading the keyframes from the motion tracker never completed. Do you have an idea how to resolve that? I had similar problems in Kdenlive, where I could resolve it by enlarging the keyframe spacing of the motion tracking to bring down the amount of keyframes to about 3000, which worked with long delays where the app was blocked. In Shotcut I didn't see any controls for fine-tuning the motion tracking, do you happen to have an idea how to resolve this?

[@BenEspanto]

45 mins is a long time for Shotcut to process. Try cutting the clips

[@FixitEasyDIY]

Thanks 👍👍👍

[@BenEspanto]

You're welcome! I'd love for you to subscribe if you haven't!

[@Grand-DucMike]

Thank you for the tutorial, it helped me a lot.

[@BenEspanto]

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[@BushKayakersCampingAustralia]

I make kayaking videos . this might work for tracking flying ducks when they fly away from me when I am paddling

[@BenEspanto]

For sure!

[@BushKayakersCampingAustralia]

@@BenEspanto yep thanks .its going to come in very handy then

[@awesomearizona-dino]

Excellent Tutorial with all steps, thanks Ben. Will shift some responsibility to the cameraman, maybe better with 4k.

[@BenEspanto]

Absolutely! Thank you for watching!

[@mySeaPrince_]

An easier way.. 😻 Motion tracking camera.. minor problem.. £$¥€¢ 💥

[@toxicaurora]

Ive already watched this video a couple weeks ago, now editing another video and using this effect, and it worked just fine for my last video. I was following everything step by step again since i didnt remember everything from last time, then when it got to the part where you go to the keyframes and see the screen move around showing black borders, it doesnt do that for me. Im not sure what went wrong this time

[@BenEspanto]

That functionality had been finnicky. Sometimes I have to run it twice or choose a difference choice in the dropdown

[@MrEtatyomies]

What about that 3D camera tracking like after efect does? like thos "floor is lava" Ae tutorials. is it impossible with shotcut atm?

[@BenEspanto]

Not that I know of

[@palmettoaerialimagery5766]

Could you use this to put a property line on aerial footage of a parcel of land and have it stay put while the view rotates?

[@BenEspanto]

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[@drutgat2]

Thanks Ben.

[@BenEspanto]

You're welcome!

[@chapmansbg]

Subscribed all notifications... sup

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you!

[@Nightmare10311]

prob too late for some help since this was a year ago but i followed exactly what you did but the keyframes refuse to show up, shotcut doesnt freese or anything and the effect didnt apply. what do i do about this?

[@BenEspanto]

First, make sure you have the latest version of Shotcut. In my attemps, I had to do it 2 - 3 times sometimes before it went into effect

[@Nightmare10311]

@@BenEspanto I eventually figured it out, apparently all I had to do is apply the tracking and then save and reload the app. I think maybe the reload is what fixed it but I can't be too certain

[@BenEspanto]

Nice!

[@huseyinigdirlispiralswing]

Can shotcut be used to trace golf videos in any other way than this... Presume this is not sufficient to do that job? Thank you...

[@BenEspanto]

I think for something like a golf ball, this would be the way to do it other than manually

[@TimLauridsen]

Thanks Ben, for yet another great tutorial

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you!

[@MrSupersidewinder]

Very cool😊

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you for watching!

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you for watching!

[@MrSupersidewinder]

@@BenEspanto I've tried dissolving out text by placing it on a transparent foreground layer. It leaves black where the text is until its gone... How do I dissolve out text??? SO MANY TEXT QUESTIONS 🤷‍♂️🥵

[@BenEspanto]

You have to place the text on the top layer another way using Open Other, then drag into the timeline. Once there add the opacity filter

[@MrSupersidewinder]

@@BenEspanto That's what I tried open other TRANSPARENT. Put it on top track. Add text to this top track. Dissolve text with opacity ... the shape of the text shows in black until the text is gone...

[@turk_dogan]

👍👍🙂 subscribed.

[@BenEspanto]

Awesome! Thank you

[@joscpe]

If anyone else has this issue... For some reason after analyzing, I had to reopen my project to have the import keyframes function work within the position filter...

[@BenEspanto]

Sometimes it's buggy

[@ShaneDMCshorts]

The transition in your intro was done using shotcut?

[@BenEspanto]

Yes. All videos and effects were done in Shotcut

[@earleroy]

when i select "load keyframes from motion tracker", no keyframes are loaded into the filter and the clip will not track. the green preview is accurate, but the size filter is not. the gray stopwatch beside the position settings also does not turn blue to indicate that keyframes are being used for the filter

[@BenEspanto]

You might need to repeat a couple of times

[@rod199]

Brilliant Ben, thankyou so much.

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you for watching!

[@LexaHD]

i have a problem: when i click on load keyframes from motion tracker i can not click on the name of my motion tracker i analyzed before. There is no Choice option... please help me

[@BenEspanto]

Sometimes you had to redo a couple of times

[@sss5303]

Thabks

[@BenEspanto]

You're welcome

[@Ufews]

Im trying to do this right now but whenever I try to load in my saved motion. It just shows a blank space where the save should be. I already tried restarting and ive got like 5 saves but they still wont show.

[@Ufews]

The project im working on has a LOT of edits, probably more than 100 modifications to the original footage but they're just simply cuts. No added effects or anything fancy. Im just cutting out blank space from the footage. Im guessing its not working because it cant send enough resources.

[@Ufews]

Lost my mind tryna make it work for 20 mins when it was supposed to be a 2 second effect on a clip. Imma give up. Good tutorial.

[@BenEspanto]

I am not able to replicate your issue. Do you have the latest version of the software?

[@Ufews]

@@BenEspanto I updated my software and now it works on new projects but the one I was already working aint budgin. Its okay it was only 2 seconds 😅

[@stalinspimp1293]

nice tutorial and all but nothings worked for me, I followed the steps and nothing is working :\

[@BenEspanto]

I don't know what's happening on your end

[@BosonDecay]

this comment bugs me - at what point are things not working? Are options not available? Are buttons failing to do anything when clicked? Are results not the same as expected? If you don't give details, we can safely assume you're a child trying to poison the guy's KZbin traffic because software is too hard for you.

[@KrzysiuNet]

Motion tracker is great, but the lack of panning available makes it useless :( I wish it would retain it's tracking capabilities, but when rendering, act like VD's Deshaker (which, as name says, supports random shakes, not object tracking, like in your case) - with configurable, adaptive zoom, using close frames to fill in blanks. I tried the latter, but again, why make something easy, when it can be hard, so you can't make easily these borders transparent, so copying original video and blurring it slightly to use as background won't work. You can make borders #f0f and then chroma key it, but the effects are awful.

[@BenEspanto]

Noted

[@bearbearcutecute]

Start at 3:00

[@BenEspanto]

good to know

[@CyroCoders]

No way bro talked about OCD and then positioned the ball lower than the center

[@BenEspanto]

good to know