Hey there good people, my name is Scott and you are watching Sword & Shield Studio. Right
now we are going to learn how to do some basic text tracking within Fusion. Now this particular
method works best if you have a simple panning shot or shot on a tripod. If you're trying
to do a more complex tracking effect, maybe match your text to a specific surface in your
image, there are other trackers within Fusion that work better for that that I will go over
in a future video. With that in mind, let's get right into it. Okay so now I am on the
Edit Page in Resolve where I put a clip on my timeline that I want to track some text
to. I have this video shot of a man running in the desert provided by Taryn Elliot from
Pexels.com where you can find all sorts of free-to-use stock photos and video. I will
post a link to that website in the description. As you can see, he is running through the
desert here. And let's say I want to track some text above his head to match his movement
here, just a simple tracking text effect. The first thing I will have to do is right
click the clip on my timeline and hit 'Open in Fusion Page' from the pop-up menu. That
will open my clip on the Fusion tab and the first thing you are going to want to do, is
with your MedaIn node selected so it's highlighted red here, hit 'Shift+Space' and type in 'Tracker'
to search for all the different types of trackers within Fusion. Today, we're just going to
worry about this basic tracker at the bottom. The camera tracker and the planar tracker
I will go over to accomplish some more complex effects in a future video. So I will just
hit 'Enter' to select the tracker, and then next you are going to want to scrub your timeline
to the very beginning where you want to begin tracking the image. And then, hovering over
this Tracker1 box that was created when you created the tracker node, hold left click
to drag and then line up the center of this crosshair with the part of the image that
you want to track. In my case, that's this guy's head. And at this point you can hold
left click on the edges here if you want to adjust the size of the tracker. If your subject
is smaller or larger than you want the tracker to be you can adjust that. I'm just going
to leave it about the default there. And then go up to the top of your inspector and hit
'Track Forward from Current Time', this icon here. And Fusion will do its thing, tracking
the part of the image you selected from the frame you started at and you see it got tripped
up for a moment there on the man's shirt. This is relatively easy to fix, so I am just
going to zoom in so I can see this better. I'm going to scrub on the timeline to the
first frame where the tracker gets lost from the head, so right there. And then re-position
the tracker again by selecting the top left of the box and bringing the crosshair to the
man's head and then hit 'Track Forward from Current Frame'. And let's take a look at this
to see how it was done. Okay, that's pretty good. Now, if you want to tweak this even
further you can hover your mouse over these individual points on the tracker for each
frame and you can just drag them, so I'm just going to smooth out this part of the path
here. Maybe just smooth out this part and just make it generally smoother motion overall.
And I think that looks pretty good. You can always tweak it more later, but the next thing
you are going to want to do is add your text to this. Left click out of the tracker node,
hit 'Shift+Space' and type 'Text+' to add a Text+ node and hit Enter. And then hook
up your Text+ node to the tracker node here at the bottom and type in whatever text you
want, style it how you like. And you will notice nothing is showing up yet, that's because
you have to left click the Tracker node, go to the Operation tab at the top here and the
Operation is currently set to 'None', from the drop-down menu select 'Match Move'. And
you'll see now it has merged these two layers with the foreground, which is the text over
the background which is your video. And you're just going to want to position the text, left
click your Text+ node and position your text relatively where you would like it and if
we go back to the beginning and play this you can see we've got our simple text tracking
working just like that. Well that does it for this tutorial. As you can see, Fusion
has some powerful tracking tools that are relatively simple to use. I hope you learned
a bit about the basics of how to use them in this video. If you did, please consider
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Thanks for watching, I'll see you next time.