From the course: SynthEyes Essential Training (2015)

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Supervised tracking

Supervised tracking

- Supervised Tracking is the backbone of 3D tracking in SynthEyes. It offers the greatest flexibility in obtaining our 2D tracking positions. To get to the Supervised Tracking panel let's go up to the top and click on the Trackers tab. So to create a tracker, we can either click on this Wand Tool, and once it's active, we can just click inside the scene to create a tracker. Or, we can use the keyboard shortcut C to create a tracker. So let's create one right here. The tracker consists of two boxes. The inside box is the pattern that SynthEyes is going to look for. And the outside box is the search region in which SynthEyes will look for that pattern on every single frame. To position your tracker you can either click in the middle here, and drag. Or you can use this mini view to click and drag to position your tracker. And if you wanted to move in smaller increments, hold down the Control key and click and drag and you can move in very precise movement. So that's a good spot. If you…

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