it’s a hugely important concept, please see this video: Refinement is for when Adjustment isn’t enough, and you have to deal with a track that’s going in the completely wrong direction. Adjustment keyframes are an additional layer of animation that adds on top of your base track. When a point drifts away from it’s target, click and drag it to put it back in place. But again, ‘Extremely Accurate’ is probably a better solution than tinkering with Accurate 1.6.
Sometimes you may want to bump it up to 1080p because the Accurate 1.6 mode isn’t as good at working with low resolution video, and this might prevent points from skipping around. Some people assume tracking a 4k shot at 540p will reduce quality, and the vast majority of the time it will be a pixel perfect match against if you had run the process at 4k, because the secondary processing to pixel match is at 4k for both cases.The summary- track at 540p as often as possible. Lowering the ‘Tracking Target Resolution’ ONLY reduces the resolution of step 1. Tracking Target Resolution: There are two steps to tracking, one of which is tracking the general motion of the shot, the second is finding a pixel accurate match. At that point, you’re better off just using “Extremely Accurate”. Increasing Tracking Scale can slightly improve the results of Accurate 1.6 when objects are moving quickly, however you won’t get much better results above 25 pixels, except in extreme cases.
Tracking algorithms and how to tweak themĪccurate 1.6: Fast, and good for simple shots with lots of detail.Įxtremely Accurate: Slow, but better than ‘Accurate 1.6’ in every other way. The script will pre-compose your layer and set everything inside the pre-comp to all the correct settings, and you can work with Lockdown in there. If you aren’t 100% sure how to set that up on your own, just press the Pre-compose button at the top of the plugin.
The layer that Lockdown is applied to, and the Composition that layer is in, must have the same resolution and framerate for Lockdown to work. Pre-composing and setting up your footage/composition for tracking (After Effects) This feature will release with Lockdown 2.5. This is honestly the slowest and most boring tutorial I’ve ever made, but if you’re even slightly confused by the concept of what the “Lockdown frame” is, please watch it. The Lockdown frame is no longer set by the “Lockdown!” Button. It will create a green bar in the popout timeline. To set the frame you’d like to paint or apply graphics to, press the “Set Lockdown Mesh/UV Frame” button.