Basic Tracking in Fusion Page - DaVinci Resolve Basics Tutorial

hey guys this is Casey Farris I make videos on DaVinci Resolve make sure to subscribe for more videos on all of the post-production things Vence fourth that's a word today we're talking about the very most stupid simple easy way to stick some text to something else infusion using tracking let's go here we have our shot that I want to stick some text to just a nice top-down aerial shot to bring this into fusion all I have to do is be looking at it and click on the fusion page that's gonna bring it up here and let's make the thing that we actually want to stick to this let's just make some text and grab this T icon just drag it down to our comp grab the output and drag it over the output of media one that's gonna make a merge node and now if I select my text node and under my style text say the city because that's where we're at probably I'll change my font and size and stuff and put it here so let's say we want this to kind of move along with the shot simplest way to do this especially with a really easy shot like this is just to use a point tracker what I'll do is just move my media in over and I'll hit shift spacebar on the keyboard that'll bring up my select tool menu here and I'll type TR ACK and it'll come up with tracker that's the one I want just tracker and on my screen I'll have this little tracker thing if I grab the upper left-hand corner I can move this tracker around and I just want to track something that's near where I want to stick my graphic and really what I'm looking for is something with some high contrast that doesn't really look like everything else around it so something like the shadows in these trees might not be a good idea maybe this little white part would be a good idea and let's track this little garbage can the inside of this is what it's going to look forward to track and you can resize it by just dragging the edges and the outside is where it's going to look for it so depending on how much shake or movement is in your shot you can make this smaller you generally just want this as small as possible and I know this is just moving mostly from left to right so I'm just gonna kind of make it not very tall but kind of wide now that I have my tracker set I can go over to my inspector and I have some controls here if you don't see these make sure that your tracker node is selected this button right here track forward from current frame that's the one I want I'm just gonna click that and it's going to track that garbage can and it'll say render completed yeah it sounds good I'll hit okay and I can go back to that same frame I was at and I'll track backwards from current frame same deal I'll hit okay now we have our tracking done throughout the whole shot so now what do we do I don't know all right fine I'll show you what we do in the inspector the second icon over is called operation click on that and under operation where it says none I'm gonna go down to match move this is for sticking things to things it's perfect it's exactly what we want now that we have this operation match move selected it's turned this tracker node into kind of a hybrid merge node and so it'll put something over something else has a background and a foreground and it uses the tracking information there's other ways to apply tracking info but this is by far the easiest for something simple like this all we have to do is tell it what to put in the foreground which is going to be our text I'll just move this over disconnect it from our merge and connect it to the foreground of our tracker I can even just delete this merge get out here merge ain't doing nothing you just live and rent free and now I mean we're pretty much done it's it's stuck it's stuck to the image looks sick right and you even have to try that hard we tracked one thing we tracked a garbage can and boom it's done super simple there's more fanciness that you can do you can do this with multiple trackers and track rotation and scale and all of that stuff but for something really simple like this man could not be easier so I hope that's helpful for anybody who's looking at just how to do some basic tracking inside a Fusion if you want to learn more about fusion about nodes and things like that I have a convenient guide right here check that out and maybe consider subscribing if you haven't yeah that I would love to hang out some more this coffee is good

Channel: Casey Faris

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Length: 4min 4sec (244 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 04 2020