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Drawing a shape over the man’s forehead to prepare for Planar Tracking.
In the Inspector, the PlanarTracker node has tracking transport controls that are similar to those
of the Tracker. However, there are two buttons, Set and Go, underneath the Operation Mode
menu, which defaults to Track, since that’s the first thing we need to do. The Set button lets you
choose which frame to use as the “reference frame” for tracking, so you click the Set button first
before clicking the Track Forward button below.
Setting a reference frame at the beginning
of the range of frames we want to track.
TIP: The Set button lets you supervise a Planar Track in progress and stop it if you see
it slipping, making adjustments as necessary before clicking Set at the new frame to
set a new reference before continuing to track forward towards the end of the clip.
The Pattern controls let you set up how you want to handle the analysis. Of these controls, the
Motion Type menu is perhaps the most important. In this particular case, Perspective tracking is
the analysis we want. Still, in other situations, you may find you get better results with the
Translation, Translation/Rotation, and Translation/Rotation/Scale options.
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