Tracking points in the video

How do we track points once we get a video in the Movie Clip Editor? To create tracking points for this particular footage, we have two options:

  • Use the reference points in the middle of the screen
  • Get the corners of the screen

The best solution is to use the screen corners because they offer a significant level of contrast. Inside the screen, we get a green color, and the phone body is almost black. It will be easy for the tracking points to follow the motion.

If we went for the inside points, we would have to expand the points later to get the tracking plane aligned with the phone screen.

Get Blender for Video Production Quick Start Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.