Lesson 9

Track And Key

Tackling several essential skills for creating special effects.

In This Lesson

creating track points

important tracker options

applying stabilization

compensating for stabilized footage

fixing bad tracks

tracking interlaced footage

motion tracking

applying a motion track

Radio Waves effect

applying tracks to effect points

perspective corner pin tracking

Bezier Warp effect

stabilizing position, rotation, and scale

interpolating obscured tracks

working with high-definition footage

keying using the Keylight effect

improving keyed composites

creating garbage mattes

Getting Started

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