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Camera tracking preparations setup

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Camera tracking preparations setup

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- [Voiceover] OK, so first I want to delete the titles that I've prepared. We are going to add them later as separated words. I'm going to highlight both of those text layers and press delete on my keyboard. Next, I want to track the movement of the camera in this shot. So, just as a quick reminder, here is this shot on its own. We have a 10 seconds video of this runner jogging across the bridge at dusk. So, in order to track the camera, I'm going to right-click on the footage, and from the context menu I'm going to choose Track Camera. And this is a background procedure, so if you have something else to do now, in terms of designing the text, or you want to explore other parts of this project, you can go ahead and do so. But I'd rather wait for it to finish, so I'm just going to fast-forward the recording, so we don't need to sit here and wait for this effect to finish analyzing and then creating the result. OK, so this process has been finished. You can scrub the timeline and we can…

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