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Manual tracking

Manual tracking - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Manual tracking

- [Instructor] Manual tracking or supervised tracking is where you set features manually and track them by hand rather than relying on auto tracking, a feature as you may now be aware is a small region of the footage that can be found again in the previous and following frames of the footage. If you are solely relying on manual tracking, then the key thing to remember is that you need to evenly spread out your trackers at different depths to represent the scene and if a feature can no longer be tracked midway through the shot, you want to go back and add new features so that they overlap each other and that way you'll have a consistent number of tracks and you'll be sure to maintain the minimum seven to eight tracks live on every frame throughout the shot and then that should provide an accurate solve. In this instance, creating a manual track is going to help us when we come to set our coordinate system, so let's take a look at what we need to do. I'm just focused on this frame here…

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