today's video we're gonna be talking about tracking inside the vent resolve
and I'm gonna cover it from the basics to more advanced and hopefully it will
help you guys to understand what is tracking all about in how to get the
best possible result here you have the shot from the rough film cinematic stock
footage platform be sure to check them out I have a nice 25 percent link in the
description below for you guys so let me get this window a little bit bigger
and here we have a nice painting shot well first thing you always have to do
is to make sure that your footage has enough contrast tracking whether it's a
planner tracking or it's a point tracking loves to have contrast so the
program can actually go up to something and the more contrast you have the
better for the program to recognize the difference between what you're tracking
and the surroundings what you can do you can just increase the contrast and
saturation and that's good to go in my case just to make things a little bit
nicer I'm gonna use my film lot for red I'm just gonna drop it over here the way
we have a nice vivid background going on so here's our shot now let's analyze
this really quick let's say I want to track the hill a lot of times people
select all of these pan tilt zoom rotation and perspective and they think
they're going to get better results well it's actually false what happens when
you select all of them but you don't have all of the movement going on you're
actually confusing the program so the computer calculates everything longer in
you get knots accurate tracking result never select more than you have to so
let's really quick analyze what's going on
we have camera moving and then it's stopping okay so we don't have any
perspective we don't have any rotation and we
definitely don't have any zoom so technically what we have is a pen but I
always recommend just to live pan and tilt together by default so I'm gonna do
a new note and in the window I'm going to select the pen tool and I'm gonna
roughly give it a basic shape of this hill okay something like this okay
something like that and we're gonna connect it so this is very basic shape
now let's go on the tracker and what I'm gonna do just start tracking backwards
and we can see that we're gonna get a very nice track okay now depending on
your computer like I said the larger area you're tracking the longer it's
going to take but if you have good computer fast hard drive you know stuff
like that it's going to be much quicker and like I said I have all the links on
the description if you guys want to see what computer I'm using and other
possible builds all the links down below so we can see that this tracker going a
little bit outside which is okay we can fix that very easily once the tracking
is done and by the way let's come back to the point over here and track a
little bit forward so we have complete tracking data okay let's go again here
once this is done we can just simply extend this without affecting the track
okay so now we can see we have the whole thing nice and tracked and the tracker
is absolutely perfect so what are you gonna do from here it's your business
you can add contrast or you know you can make everything greener whatever you
want to decide now the tracking is perfect so it's good to go okay so this
is very basic example now let's go into a little bit more advanced gain another
shot from Rafael over here it was shot on the inspire - okay let me
do new note and I'm gonna do the same thing I'm just gonna drop really quick
my lot on it that way we have nice basic image okay like that so here we have it
I'm gonna do a new note and let's say in this case I want to track this little
heel right over here so what I'm gonna do you can use either pan or circle in
this case I'm gonna use circle to demonstrate it to you okay we're gonna
create it like this and I'm just gonna start moving it down okay
and depending how your brain works you can see either circle getting squished
or we're actually rotating in 3d so I'm gonna fit her it down I'm gonna rotate a
little bit again we can see how this thing works okay so let's say this is
our little area okay just like that now if we're gonna go on the tracker let me
make this a little bigger if we're gonna go on a tracker now we actually have
let's plate forward we have everything going on we have zoom we have rotation
and we have perspective so in this case all one two three four five all five of
them is okay and because everything is uniformed we can actually start tracking
from the very first frame okay I'm gonna track forward and we can see how
tracking is very accurate and it looks very nice so it's holding on to that
position very nicely this is very important okay and if we're going to
play it back we can see the tracking is rock-solid again here you can do
whatever you want and the tracking is very solid again let's see let's change
the hue oops I'm tweaking it in the
wrong window so let's say we want to make this one bright then change the hue
a little bit okay this is what we got so it looks like it's belong there very
nice now let's talk a little bit about more complex for example shot like this
one again this one from the raw film let me bring the color to it again I'm gonna
drop that red lot into it so we have nice basic color going on I'm gonna do
new mode and let's analyze this really quick we can see that the writer getting
towards the camera and she kind of moving a little bit left and right but
you know it starts that's much difficult to actually solve this so in this case I
can use pan and this is very nice by the way
in the middle nice shot so what we can do we can select all this okay like that
and by the way make sure to select also shadow because shadow is a part of it
unless you have lighting moving let's say you have explosions going on or
something and there's a different light sources in that case do not select
shadows okay so this one is very nice again we have a pan tilt zoom rotation
but we don't have perspective going on so we can uncheck this we're not gonna
confuse our tracker and let's start moving forward okay and we can see that
our tracking is rock-solid again okay let's wait until this whole thing is
finished okay just like this and from here let's go a little bit backwards and
we can see that zoom does the job very nicely and now I'm gonna demonstrate to
you guys what happens when you don't select properly so as we can see here
again the tracking is excellent okay so I'm
gonna reset the tracking let's say I'm not going to select zoom okay let me get
into frame okay so let's track see if you select the wrong section so it's
gonna look okay so here we have it it's moving forwards and we can see already
how the riders start falling outside the track because we did not select things
appropriately and the tracker is not zooming in or out and it just stays
there so in other words this is very crappy tracking and it's not gonna work
and we can see the difference okay very big difference so make sure to
select zoom okay and it's gonna be good to go okay now let's do two more complex
example okay another shot from rough film again let me drop my lot really
quick so it looks nice do-do-do-do-do let's see okay something
like that and I want to track the car so let's step in car car alright perfect
and we have over here interesting shot so let's find kind of relatively neutral
point and I think the neutral point is going to be somewhere from beginning I
think this is good representation basically for our car so let's go in the
window and with the pen again I'm going to do a little quick outline of the car
okay
so something like this
kind of garbage mask and let's go back into tracking so in this case we have
everything happening pan tilt zoom rotation and perspective so let's select
that and let's start tracking all that
and we can see that the tracking is again looks like rock solid okay so what
we can do now because we have this like a little tail a little excess if we're
going to go into the frame so by default you're gonna be on a clip if we're going
to go into the frame we can manually animate the mask okay make sure one last
frame and I simply don't want to be that big of a car let's say you have a client
with you you don't want to kind of make those Joker tracks like that because
they're gonna think you don't know what you're doing so we can make tracking a
little bit more neat this is again more like cosmetic actual doing people like
stuff like that so now let's go back and we can see how this track gets
automatically animated in shrinks towards the end now if you want to be
more aggressive with that again you can do it earlier it will shrink much faster
okay something like this and we can see that the frame created the point the key
point and we can see how that works okay so once you have this track it's very
simple if let's say you want to change the color of the car you can do it
either in Qualifier or you can simply go to the hue versus skew select car and
just start adjusting okay and we can see how we have a fantastic tracking going
on and we can even probably fare more and now he looks like a crazy rich
person driving purple car now this method is of course not as accurate
because we kind of have a little spill in the background but you got the point
and finally okay this is something I've shot on Blackmagic pocket let me get my
lot on it the way we have a nice mutual start okay
so here is a shot and let's say now I want to do something different
I want to stabilize this but I want to make it look a little bit unique well if
you watched Sherlock Holmes they have this very nice in fact when the Germans
firing that cannon at them and they running and the camera kind of look all
crazy it's actually very easy to do I'm gonna show it to you so let's create the
new note and we're gonna call this one track okay let's kind of playback and I
think her eyes would be a good point because she's not blinking while almost
not blinking and I think that's a good tracking position so I'm going to go in
the track but this time I'm gonna do something different instead of the
window I'm gonna select stabilizer and over here you have controls but you
don't have enough controls you have cropping ratio you have smooth strength
camera lock and zoom this is not enough for me so I'm gonna click on those three
dots and I'm gonna select classic stabilizer so now I have something a
little bit different instead of the cloud tracker I'm gonna select point
tracker and once I click on this error with this little plus it's gonna create
a little point so let me put it on her eye okay
so something like that and we have pan tilt zoom and rotation have you noticed
that there is no perspective okay let me cover that so now we can start
calculating forward and just keep your eye and keep your eye on it to see if
your track is actually pretty good and yes I like how it looks and once I click
stabilize you're gonna see a really crazy effect okay so here our stabilize
shot and when you do this by the way shoot a little bit wider and if I'm
gonna play it back you can see that we have this Sherlock Holmes effect how
it's stabilized on her face in the background can look a little bit crazy
now I highly recommend shooting things like that at a higher framerate and a
little bit quieter so you have you know more information to hook into but you
got the point so the Vince you really have very
powerful stabilizing effects and depending on the computer if your
computer strong enough you can really pull crazy effects like this one so
hopefully this helped you out a little bit if you're a beginner but DaVinci
Resolve or even if you're intermediate and
didn't know about this kind of stuff leave a comments below guys I'll see you
in the next video take care