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8 Drag a bounding box over the portion of the curves in the Tracker graph that fall
between the good tracking data at the beginning and end of the shot.
9 Click the Tracker palette option pop-up menu, and choose Clear Selected Track Data.
The portions of curves that you selected are deleted, and have linear interpolation
automatically applied to them so that there’s no hole in the track data or the motion of
the window, which now moves smoothly from the last outgoing frame of reliable
tracking data to the first incoming frame of new reliable tracking data.
Point Tracker Workflows
As advanced as the Cloud Tracking that is the default in DaVinci Resolve is, there are times
when it may be simpler to track using good old-fashioned crosshairs. The Point Tracker makes it
easy to track very specific features of a subject with motion you need to follow. Unlike the
Cloud Tracker, which automatically looks for all trackable points within a region of the image
that you identify using a window, the Point Tracker lets you create one or more crosshairs that
you must manually position to overlap with whatever high-contrast features you want to track.
This section covers the three main workflows you need to know to use the Point Tracker.
Tracking a Window Using the Point Tracker
The following procedure describes, in a general way, how to use the Point Tracker to track a
moving subject and apply that motion to a Power Window.
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, since you can always track backward).
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. You want to make sure that the window
you want to apply the tracked motion to is selected before you begin tracking. In this
example, we’ll be tracking a Circular window to follow the woman’s face.
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