FCPX Locked-On Stabilization // No Plugins & Automatic

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[@LLandMeTV]

Explaining why you should flip it, was really helpful.

[@RobinLewisMakes]

I saw this process a few days ago but it didn't explain the reason. I can finally sleep knowing the 'why', thank you!

[@Ian-b3w]

Thanks for the video and thanks for the explanation on how the process works. Good work!

[@TimothyDowd]

Leaving a comment because you asked nicely 🤪 greetings from the island of eternal spring (Tenerife) great discovery and clear explanation of why it works... I loved the way the guy in the car reversed as you were explaining the shifting of the pixels 😀

[@RCodyWanner]

haha thank you! and love that you saw that in the background

[@RaulGolfsClips]

Haha sweet transition. Man I’m gonna try this one out in my next vlog. So dope. Quick and dirty!

[@kaloyantsilev]

Thanks Cody! Awesome explanation, and thank you for the details of how it works. I like knowing the 'why' not just the 'how'.

[@yugiaudiovisualentertaintment]

you are FCPX GURU!!! (thank you, you saving my life!)

[@nicehoopers]

omg thank you. i’ve been trying to learn this effect for the longest time because i edit basketball videos and i wanna track the ball but most yt videos are for PR and/or hard to understand. subscribed.

[@RCodyWanner]

happy to help! let me know if you need help doing anything else!

[@benarnoux]

I like that you talk the way my brain works.

[@RCodyWanner]

haha thank you I somehow know exactly what you mean

[@jacketpatches]

thanks for the explanation, Final Cut should have a locked on feature built in by now.

[@gabrielnasato4882]

Loved this video. Seen only two of your videos, but I already love your work. Thanks for being real.

[@RCodyWanner]

thank you!!

[@danielmambaodoi]

LOVE your work Cody! I watched your first version of this tutorial months ago (when I was just curious about how it worked) but have returned to your channel to actually learn + apply it. And WOWEE we’ve got an updated version with an excellent tutorial about the X and Y axis offsets that come from the -180 scale tip. HUGE lightbulb moment, much love from Mamba Downunder 🇦🇺🦘

[@RCodyWanner]

so glad it helped!! lightbulbs are what i'm all about !!

[@verstaerker]

cool very smart and effective. I knew I had to apply the inverse tracking , but didn't get the idea to to do the tracking on the inverted footage

[@RCodyWanner]

glad it worked!!

[@AshleyMurphyArt]

I love the extra movement, people, cars… ect in the background. It keeps you guessing and like good morning American vibe 😂 #commenting #keepcreating

[@RCodyWanner]

why thank you!!

[@samvarma]

Dead sexy info! I can't believe it's that simple to get this effect one sees so often. Nicely done. Thank you!

[@AdventuresofCarlienne]

ooh love it! Nice quick and dirty. Thanks for showing how to do this. Then the why it works part so we can better understand it is money!

[@kidcase534]

Solid bro definitely just made it make sense 🔥🔥

[@RCodyWanner]

hyped to hear it!!

[@MCQUEENFIT]

I guess this doesn’t not work on vertical video . Footage is all over the place tried making the clip bigger also

[@antoniovillegas6015]

Were you able to figure out how to fix this issue? Currently having the same problem

[@timkrofcheck]

That is such a cool tutorial. There are so many features to this application that I have yet to discover. Thanks Cody, much appreciated!

[@Shootasheed]

thanks man

[@LucasHuang]

Super helpful! Especially the explanation cause I've been wondering ever since the first video why we needed to do the mirroring! Thanks

[@againsttheflow316]

Exactly what I was looking for, in exactly the bite sized piece I needed. Thank you!

[@RCodyWanner]

let's goo!! did google show it to you as a clip or did you have to go through the video to find the section?

[@rcingfever3882]

actually needed it got the right video right time youtube algorithm is awesome and you as well. 😁

[@RCodyWanner]

ya love to hear it!!

[@SonnyGreenwichJr]

Cody, you RAWK Sir! ☘💪🏽👀👍🏽☘

[@RCodyWanner]

why thank you!!

[@finnagainandagain]

Solid video Cody! I love learning some new tips from ya. Hope you and the fam are having a great holiday season.

[@RCodyWanner]

thanks so much Finley!

[@xberttraveler2032]

I miss the old vlogs. But I understand creator burnout is a real think. Experienced this on my main channel food x bert. Love your stuff Cody.

[@RCodyWanner]

did you catch that day in the life one? last upload?

Awesome tutorial and explanation of the why and how to. Great job man!

[@tombuck]

Learned a lot from this, thanks man!

[@BrunoCyr]

I needed to know how it works so thanks for the extra explanation 😊

[@RajPhotoEditingMuchMore]

Thank you so much 🙏🏻😊

[@MTB_ADVENTURE]

Now I understand why. Thxs

[@MalamSeram]

Thanks!

[@RCodyWanner]

Thanks So much Malam!!

[@KostasLazanas]

Evergreen 😎 Have yet to try this.

[@ABO79N]

thank you so much for being quick and concise

[@RCodyWanner]

my pleasure!!

[@dougmorato]

Niiiice. Thanks!!!

[@createdbykb6301]

This was life saving thank you!

[@RCodyWanner]

glad to hear it!!

[@PeterLindgrenVlogs]

Sick, Love it! Also love the setting in this vid!

[@RCodyWanner]

thanks so much man!!

[@OmarZaldivar]

great advice

[@gublet1anustup]

Short and sweet awesome! What was the issue with your old video?

[@RCodyWanner]

in the old one i didn't explain why the technique works quite as well!

[@MichaelBouhnikProductions]

crazy how this work, kuddos !

[@lexrun01]

thanks for showing this effect!

[@MalochMedia]

Thanks! This was great!

[@gdibble]

🤌😘 *Worked perfectly!* Thank you so much for the help and explanation. _Loved the tutorial; keep up the great work!_

[@RCodyWanner]

thank you!! glad to hear it!!

[@DacostaVieira]

Great tutorial 🗒

[@Bogoslov2007]

Спасибо за видео. Знал, как сделать этот эффект, но было действительно не понятно, почему надо делать такое странное действие как переворачивать картинку. Спасибо за объяснение! )

[@RCodyWanner]

my pleasure!! thanks so much for watching!

[@HopkinsMD]

I’m here for the hoodie. 😂

[@crstprimer5763]

I followed the instructions, but there is only one thing I noticed. My clip is somewhat zoomed in and is no longer in the original scale once I've done the tracking as outlined in the video here. Is this avoidable?

[@RCodyWanner]

so you'll need at least a little zoom in, to give the clip room to move around in the frame -- but create a new compound clipped with everything there and then zoom that compound clip out a little bit and see if that looks better to you

[@FAMEAcademyNY]

Thanks!

[@TheGmwhateverek]

Great tutorial! Take care!!

[@MCQUEENFIT]

I honestly hate when technical difficulties happen . Literally it’s like working on a stupid car . A quick job ALWAYS turns into hours or days when a problem occurs it’s so damn annoying technology and it’s difficulties to work out are never quick

[@fmfpower20]

na dosent work on vertical video

[@RCodyWanner]

it does! just need to leave a bunch of space around the subject so you have room to move the frame around

[@fmfpower20]

tried multiple times its way to zoomed in and the footage is all over the place....

[@GameTechTalk]

Thanks! Easy, efficient and it works! :)

[@Cole-Donaldson]

Hello! For some reason even when I make the view bigger I still don’t get the option to track or transform. I’m lost help please!!!

[@RCodyWanner]

which version of FCP are you on?

[@gustavopereira6723]

This is great. I'm trying to edit shorts for stand up comedy, is there a way to instead of tracking up/down AND side to side, track just the x-axis movement (side to side) and leave the up/down parameters fixed?

[@RCodyWanner]

i haven't figured out a way to do that easily in FCP, no -- if you're willing to jump into resolve (it's easy, i give you my word) then you'll likely be able to get it done there! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGnaYoKddsl9m6csi=Csbw9s-OV-rF6CLh

[@hypeable]

Thanks for the help!

[@RCodyWanner]

Happy to help!

[@Skripofonia]

thank you for the video! but for me it didn't work on the secondary line, should it work the same way? or there is another option for the secondary line?

[@RCodyWanner]

hmm for secondary line, are you referring to the second layer above the primary timeline?

[@betterstudioproduction5916]

my fcpx 10.5 does not have the tracking option, do you have the solution for ths

[@RCodyWanner]

are you able to update to 10.6 or later?

[@bluetitan2560]

I’m unsure what I’m doing wrong the tracker after I hit analyze does not track the green square keeps going to no man’s land and gets stuck away from subject

[@michaelsebastian4993]

Thanks for the video, is it possible to stop the frame from going off the edge of the video whilst using this effect?

[@RCodyWanner]

yes -- so once this who process is finished, select everything, right click, and hit "create new compound clip" -- once the clip is created, go over to scale, and increase the size until the clip is no longer going off the edge. another option would be to "mirror effect" the edges, i explain that process here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZ-ohImDm9d4ZpY if you are able, of course, you can re-shoot, and zoom out or stand back further, so that you give your subject more room in the frame

[@GlassfilmWeddings]

do one turning horizontal to vertical! Its so hard. Do i need to keyframe first?

[@RCodyWanner]

your wish is my command! just released it today!

[@karstenbuch1]

Thanks :)

[@joshansekhon3037]

hey there, when i try this on my iphone 4k footage it looks great but when i export the project the effect falls off? any suggestions?

[@RCodyWanner]

hmm, are there any steps that you take from the time you play it back and it works, to the time you export it? what's your export process?

[@Willtaylor_uk]

With the black edges this effect creates when the screen moves obviously I can zoom in to fix this. If I didn't want to zoom in how would I mirror the edges so the black bits weren't there. Reference clip is connor price million cash

[@RCodyWanner]

You could use a plugin from pixel film studios called stabilizer 2.0 - that is how that one works... but here is the way to do it using my method: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZ-ohImDm9d4ZpYsi=Vo6Ojr3PQZd-TXcL - video is unlisted so just let me know you saw it

[@Willtaylor_uk]

@RCodyWanner just watched it and that's is so helpful thank you so much 🤩

[@danielromagnoligoncalvss]

how would you do this with vertical video?

[@RCodyWanner]

the same way, just remember to leave enough space around your subject so that you have room to move the frame around in post

[@BuildKnowledge]

Thanks A lot

[@BTSflyer]

I tried this on a forklift. The. scene is doing a pan but FCP is not moving the frame when the forklift turn and goes up the frame. The frame is blown up to fit a 4K image into vertical.

[@RCodyWanner]

could you send me the clip? email is in the "ABOUT" section on my youtube channel

[@itsMarinaLabung]

Every time I click on the transform part, the original clip just becomes a tiny video on the lower left :( Not sure what I'm doing wrong

[@RCodyWanner]

when you click on the little arrow next to the "object tracker", is "scale" checked? if so, uncheck that

[@MoneyShotMerky]

🔥🔥🔥

[@DroseMr]

Nice🎉Thank You

[@VAR_Austin]

❤

[@BigDub222]

it doesn't flip itself over anymore

[@RCodyWanner]

hmm -- what version fcp are you on?

[@kyle_golfs]

Thanks for this Cody -- do you know if there is an easy way to reduce the tracking amount by some fractional amount? ie tracking amount of ".5" would mean: object moves 10pixels to the left, video moves 5pixels to the right. Thanks again!

[@RCodyWanner]

yes to do this, scale your bottom clip, the one you are analyzing for the object track, down to 50%.

[@kyle_golfs]

@@RCodyWanner oh duh -- if i understood the "why" i would have figured this out haha cheers!

[@catchingthelight]

man! how do you even come up with that!

[@RCodyWanner]

haha i just really wanted it built in and wanted to stop key-framing by hand haha

[@MCQUEENFIT]

Whenever I play back the video for some reason it shows partial of the flipped clip at the end of the slide how do I fix this ?

[@RCodyWanner]

the clip on top needs to be bigger, so that it doesn't slide over far enough to reveal the clip on the bottom

[@MCQUEENFIT]

@@RCodyWanner ok

[@MCQUEENFIT]

@@RCodyWanner also the object tracker is not locking on it’s making me have to seriously move it by key frame ? This will take me days how come it can’t automatically lock on );

[@RCodyWanner]

@@MCQUEENFIT normally if it can't lock on, it's because the object doesn't have any high contrast distinctive elements. Another thing that can happen is something crosses in front of the object you are tracking, and the tracker gets confused

[@KaceySue]

👋🏻

[@RCodyWanner]

hey Kacey!!

[@kevino601]

commen

[@MagnumPI3000]

Why -130 0:27

[@RCodyWanner]

you need it to zoom in (so that's why 130 instead of 100) and you need it to flip both horizontally and vertically, so that's why negative.

[@sven-0]

T

[@MCQUEENFIT]

lol this is so stupid I literally do the steps you are saying and it doesn’t not work correctly . The video shows the duplicate in the background half way through it’s just a mess I have no clue how you you got that to work it doesn’t work for me even following your words step by step I can’t get past 3mins in the video due to this problem of the tracker not tracking properly

[@RCodyWanner]

ah bummer! i explain it slightly differently here, give this a shot: Locked-On Stabilization in Final Cut // NO PLUGINS & AUTOMATIC kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKTXiqyPiZmCsK8

[@MCQUEENFIT]

@@RCodyWanner ok

[@MCQUEENFIT]

@@RCodyWanner I got lost watching this video I tried watching this before you lost me on the mirroring scale back scale all stuff I thought it automatically mirrors ? I’m lost

[@MCQUEENFIT]

Also I made the clip bigger and now the quality is crap and also it still keeps showing the previous clip in the same clip like it’s not cropped so annoying I wish you showed how to fix this or prevent this

[@MrHaydnSir]

a comment

[@alegoadaykeepsthesadnessaway]

Thanks! Awesome!

[@zmoney116]

thank you for explaing the reason to why we need to flip it. you say, its not neccessary to know but its like math class, where you learn the long way how to solve a problem and then the teacher shows you the shortcut and you are like why didnt you just show that to us from the beginning. its to make sure you understand what is going on in the background in the shortcut , so thank you. p.s. im glad tracking is available finally in FCPX without any plugins

[@21milefilm]

Would this work the same creating a portrait dimensions video ?

[@RCodyWanner]

yep! you just really have to be sure to capture the shot wide enough, so that the frame has space to move around

[@Raptorade]

Well this is stupid (I’m criticizing Apple here)

[@RCodyWanner]

😂😂

[@MichaelHortonRocks]

Great tutorial. I appreciate the how it works also. One more thing, though, does this work on 360 video?

[@RCodyWanner]

i haven't tested it, but i will!

[@RoryBland]

Ayyyy was just searching for this and was stoked to see that the tutorial was created by none other than R Cody Wanner. Thanks this is a game changer and simple to follow! Using it in my next vids.

[@NiteshSaini1]

Thanks a lot for the second video on motion tracking it works well. Keep sharing good no-plug in stuff.

[@Kleslye2]

Excellent subscribed ;)

[@RCodyWanner]

why thank you!! let me know if there is a specific tutorial you'd like to see

[@HeyItsMeSteve]

Thanks Cody! I can't wait to try this down the road.

[@mcgarciastudios]

i made it this far ,so i leave a comment 🤪🤙🏾 ,Thanks for this quick tutorial,u hit the spot .PEace

[@marperalta3486]

i buy stabilizer 2.0 before i watch this:(

[@scoro3]

I'm leaving a comment since you asked. My brain can't comprehend this, I got to watch it again. Nice video btw.

[@RCodyWanner]

Thank You! And thank you!

[@srslyMKNZ]

Thank you SO MUCH for the detailed explanation! Do you have any tips if it the tracking is coming out a bit choppy in the clip?

[@MrHombre]

Thanks Cody! Saw the first one and nailed it ever since, now is just a double check. So thanks

[@JesseDriftwood]

Well now I know what I’ll be playing with today.

[@RCodyWanner]

👀 please make an insanely overly tracked IG story

[@NickMACK1473]

How do you behead someone in fcpx

[@movemitmia]

thank you ehat a game changer!! :)

[@BigDub222]

once I picked "object track" it didn't not flip back over from -130

[@Moonn1978]

Great, thank you. Great idea, very good explanation.

[@LuisNogueiraeCosta]

Thanks! Very useful and objective !