From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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Automatic tracking

Automatic tracking

Regardless of ultimate objective for tracking, the first step is always to get good tracking data. Here we'll see how to do automatic tracking, where you just drop you trackers on the screen and go. Automatic tracking is quick, and works well for the easier tracking problems. We'll start by adding a tracker, select the Read node. Transform Tool tab, select a Tracker node. Making sure the playhead is on frame one, because I want to track forward. I'm going to turn on my Tracker Blaster button. And click, click, click. And track three is selected, so I can come over to the zoom window and fine-tune its position. Select, Tracker two. Fine-tune him. Select Track one, and fine-tune that one. I'm ready to go. Right now, I only have track one selected. So, if I click track forward, I'm going to only track that one. So, I have to make sure I have all the tracks selected, that I want to track. All right. So, we'll click forward. And track. Tracking is all done, so I'm going to turn on the…

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