Using the smoothness and threshold sliders to fine tune it will give very nice smooth transitions to the flares.Įasily my favorite thing is the new tracker. It utilizes the widely praised Mocha Pro planer tracker and works right in the FCP X or Motion interfaces. MotionVFX’s implementation of it is the easiest tracker I’ve ever used. In conjunction with brightness tracking it is very powerful and can give very realistic results. I really wish I had this system for everything else I do in post. What they’ve done is allow you to use one tracker but reference multiple track points in time. So say you are tracking something but it is about to leave the frame, you can then choose another point, and another, etc. You just go to a point in the clip where the tracker is about to exit and reposition then tracker box over something new. The tracked position data is independent of the effects general position data giving you a ton of flexibility. Brilliant. It was even able to deal with an arm passing completely over my tracking point and it maintained the track no problem. Focus changes didn’t throw it off either which is something most regular point trackers have trouble with. Mocha for the win. To test all this I took my son out and shot a simple little video of him wandering around a local park. I chose mostly natural looking flares for this video (not an alien invasion, haha) but it gives you an idea of what you can do. There’s a few gotcha’s and constructive notes I’ll add: There are side by side examples of the flare shots at the end.
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