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3 Move the playhead back to the last good frame of tracking, and then click the Frame
button in the Tracker palette to go into Frame mode.
Turning on Frame mode, to prepare to offset the track
4 In Frame mode, you can now drag the tracker to another feature of the building, this
time the outer edge of the roof, that will be better to follow as the building goes out
of frame to the left, since the Power Window will go out of frame before the rightmost
corner of the building’s roof does.
Dragging the tracker to another feature that’s better to track
5 Now, click the Track Forward button again, and the crosshairs will begin tracking the
new feature, but the motion will be offset, so the movement of the Power Window
continues to follow the original motion path.
Tracking an offset feature lets the window
go all the way off screen
6 If you turn on the track path (in the Tracker Option menu), and move the playhead to the
frame where you moved the tracker, you can see that the motion before you moved the
tracker and the motion after continues smoothly along the same path, with no sudden
breaks. When you’re finished, click the Clip button to get out of Frame mode.
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