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Setting up tracking for an effect

Setting up tracking for an effect - Media Composer Tutorial

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Setting up tracking for an effect

- [Instructor] Now that we know how to add a blur effect to a clip and configure the basic settings, let's set up some tracking so that we can follow somebody's face in the image automatically and blur out their features. I'm going to go back to my image category in the effect palette, and I'm going to drag the blur effect onto our clip. I may as well just zoom in a little on the timeline here, and let's look in our effect editor. When I added a shape earlier, we had this yellow outline on the shape and that's a setting at the bottom right corner of the effect editor. You can see that we have a color picker available and you can choose a different color for different shapes. I'm just going to select this and press the delete key to remove it. We also have the option to enable and disable the grid and find if I right click on this button, we get access to our grid settings. We can specify what we're going to see overlaid…

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