Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Blender for Video Production Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Blender for Video Production Quick Start Guide Create high quality videos for YouTube and other social media platforms with Blender

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789804959
Length 176 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Allan Brito Allan Brito
Author Profile Icon Allan Brito
Allan Brito
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Blender as a Video Editor for YouTube FREE CHAPTER 2. Editing and Cutting Video Footage in Blender 3. Using Properties to Enhance Video 4. Animated Properties for Video Effects 5. Creating Intro Videos for YouTube with Text and Motion Graphics 6. Using Videos as Textures for 3D Compositions 7. Adding Sound and Voiceover for YouTube 8. Aligning 3D Content with Video Using Virtual Cameras 9. Exporting Video for YouTube 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

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.

Adding tracking points

The process of creating the tracking data needs something called tracking markers...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image