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Copying and Pasting Tracking
There will be plenty of times you’ll apply multiple windows to a single moving subject, such as a
car, when you can use a single motion track for all the windows. Commands in the Option menu
let you copy and paste track data from one window to another within the same node, saving
time when you want several windows tracking together as one.
To copy track data from one window to another:
1 Open the Window palette, then select a window that has tracking applied to it
(indicated by a tracking badge in the corner of the shape icon), and choose Copy Track
Data from the Option pop-up.
2 Select another window, and choose Paste Track Data from the Option pop-up. Once
you’ve copied track data from one window, you can paste it to as many other windows
as you like.
You can also copy tracking from the FX mode of the Tracker palette and paste it to a window, in
case you want to use the same tracking data for both an effect and a window.
To copy track data from an FX track to a window:
1 Open the Tracker palette, choose the FX mode that contains the tracking data you
want to copy, and choose Copy Track Data from the Option pop-up.
Open the Window palette, select a window, and choose Paste Track Data from the
Option pop-up. Once you’ve copied track data from one window, you can paste it to as
many other windows as you like.
Tracker Palette Controls in More Detail
You can easily combine object tracking and keyframing to animate windows. For example, you’ll
typically use object tracking to make a window follow the position and orientation of a moving
feature, but you can add dynamic marks to the window track of the correction in the Color page
with which to alter its size and shape to better conform to a feature’s changing form.
Controls in the Window Tracker Palette
Occasionally, you’ll run into a shot that doesn’t quite track well enough using the Tracker menu’s
simple controls. In these cases, the Viewer page provides the complete set of object tracking
controls that can be used to modify tracking operations in different situations.
The Tracker palette
The object tracking controls are divided into seven groups.
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