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To track any Power Window to match a moving feature within the frame:
1 Move the playhead to the frame of the current shot where you want to begin (you don’t
have to start tracking at the first frame of a shot).
2 Turn on any window, and adjust it to surround the feature you want to track.
Typically, you’ll have done this anyway, for example, framing someone’s moving face
with a Circular window to lighten their highlights.
3 To initiate tracking, do one of the following:
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Choose Color > Tracker > Track Forward (press Command-T).
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Choose Color > Tracker > Track Reverse (Option-T).
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On the T-bar panel of the DaVinci control panel, press OBJECT TRACK MODE, and
then press either the TRACK FWD or TRACK REV soft keys on the Center panel.
DaVinci Resolve automatically opens the Viewer page, places a series of tracking points within
the window you’ve created, and performs the track from the current frame; forward to the last
frame or backward to the first frame.
DaVinci Resolve analyzes a cloud of tracking points that follow the vectors of every trackable
group of pixels within the window you’ve created, and the results are fast and accurate. After
tracking, the window you’ve placed automatically moves, resizes, rotates, and skews to match
the motion of the feature you’re tracking.
Object tracking in progress. Tracking points are automatically
placed over trackable features of the image
Once a clip has tracking data applied to one of its windows, a small tracking icon appears within
that clip’s icon in the Thumbnail timeline.
A tracking icon in the top left corner
of the Thumbnail timeline shows
that clip has been tracked
If the track you’ve performed is unsuitable, you can reposition the window to cover a different
area of the subject you’re trying to track, and initiate tracking again. New tracking data
overwrites any previous tracking data applied to that window.
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