How to place Text INSIDE your Video - Hitfilm Express 2017 Tutorial (Motion Tracking)

texts can look pretty boring and pretty plain when it's just placed on top of video today we're going to be making text more lively by putting it in LC motion tracking it objects within a video [Music] today's tutorial is going to be rated two stars out of five on the difficulty scale so first of all I hope you like when you intro and banners and everything if you want to see tutorials on that kind of stuff then say so in the comments but otherwise we're just going to be getting on with this tutorial today in hitfilm express so I've got this one clip in the trimmer here which you learn is just a dolly shot of this landscape and I'm going to try and put our text in the foreground here kind of in the same area as these rocks so I'm going to start off by making a composite shot which is where we do all of our compositing right click and make composite shot just hit OK I'm also going to switch over into the compositing workspace which means we have a bigger viewer and layer and also we have a bigger track panel which will be coming very useful we're going to start by opening up our layer and then in the tracks here just hit the plus icon if you don't have that you might need to extend it although that should have been fixed in the latest version of hitfilm so just hit insert tracker and you'll notice a couple of things just happened first of all we went from the viewer in for the layer and we went from the controls into the track panel the track panel is where we do all of our tracking really and our layer is where we view individual layers rather than the whole composite shot so first of all I'll start with these two boxes the red box right there is the actual feature that you want to track and the green box is the search area in every frame it's going to search for the feature the red box in the area of the green box so if you have a lot of movement in your clip you're going to need to increase the size of the green box so I'm just going to select it and just drag it down to somewhere in the rocks kind of like here make sure it's an area that has lots of contrast so you might want to zoom in and check that the area is a pretty good area to track if you've got a lot of movement in your clip you might want to increase the search area but of course we don't have much movement in this solar dolly shot so we can just leave it like so you might also want to create two points if you go to type and double points you'll notice another point appears and with double points you can also track the rotation and scale this is because if you have two points you can track the movement of the two points relative to each other and also the distance which means you can calculate the scale and rotation now in this theme it's probably easiest if we just do one point but if you have a scene where you want it to be more accurate you can also do double points to make a more accurate track so leave the method as optical flow template matches actually probably good for something like this but optical flow should work fine for almost all situations then in the track controls just hit track forward or you can track frame by frame if you want but that's kind of tedious so just hit track forward and it should begin tracking your point for you if the track ever stops or the point goes out of place then it means that hit runs obviously done something wrong if the track just goes out of place you need to go back to the frame where it went out of place reposition it and then track forward again and if it just stops but still in the right place it means that hit film thinks it's done something wrong or that it will do something wrong and so you need to readjust that position and just keep tracking forward in other words you should just be readjusting the position and tracking forward again if things go wrong but of course with my track right here it's going really smoothly it's a really easy track for me so I'll get back to you when it's done and now track now because our feature has actually gone out of the frame but that's okay we only really need to use the first couple of 15 seconds anyway so now that you've made this track hit new layer and point layer and then back in the tracker make sure the purpose is transform and the layer is this new point this way it'll actually apply all of this tracked information to this point layer if you've used two points you can also select rotation and scale for that more accurate track because we've just got one point I'm just going to hit apply now if we go back to the viewer you'll notice that if we click on this new point layer it's actually attached to this rock if we open up the transform controls here you'll notice that the position is constantly changing as the track changes now it's time to add some text hit new layer text and just make the textbox any size you want I'm just going to go into the text tool add some text adjust the size of my text box and of course edit the text in the properties here so I've got my text I'm now just going to position it so it's in a cool place like over here and then to make it move with the track with the point just go into the parent option here and just select that point layer and now whatever the point does the text layer will do too and when we play it back the text moves along with the walk that's pretty cool you'll notice that it probably doesn't go completely out of frame because the track kind of ends so I'm just going to adjust the position of the text just by moving it like so and then it'll still move in the same way because it's parented to the point if we had applied the track data directly to this text layer then we wouldn't have been able to move it like so and if you want to you can even get multiple layers and append them all to this point layer so they all move with the text and I think that'll do it for today's video next week I think I'll be doing a tutorial on how to stabilize your video inside of your film so 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Length: 6min 19sec (379 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 03 2017