Locked-On Stabilization in Final Cut // NO PLUGINS & AUTOMATIC
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i love this effect, where it seems like a face or an object is LOCKED in one place on the frame, as thought the camera is attached to it. made famous by the beats by dre commercial. well for the longest time, you had to either do this manually in FCP, install a plugin (that rarely worked), or hop over to after effects. BUT THEN, apple released the tracking feature with final cut 10.6 - and the more i thought about this effect, i realized that a simple mirror of the footage, with that footage motion tracked to whatever object you want to lock, would create the effect!
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here’s a FANTASTIC explanation from Brad and Donna on why you need to invert the clip to make the locked on effect work: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJ2hrJuJc6mbm6w.html
@prostobardak
Жыл бұрын
is it possible to only lock in the tracked object horizontally (X axis) and not allow for the frame to move vertically, sort of exclude Y axis movement like you exclude rotation movement here? thanks!
I don’t even use FCPX and I watched this, good job dude!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
haha thanks so much Armando!
This is amazing! I’ve spent so long looking for something like this so great job!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
ah so glad to hear it!!
The gains on the left hand are impressive! Nice video bro! I was longing for this feature for so long
I was actually searching for a video on this! I have recently started editing in FCPX after switching to MAC. Awesome! Thanks a lot
What a WEIRD workaround hack but THANKYOU for making this because It was exactly what I needed and no-one else is talking about this that I could find! Good job Cody!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
glad it helped!!
Hi, hope you had a nice Thanksgiving Cody.
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
MICHAEL! thanks so much!! i hope you did too!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
@TimTimes
2 жыл бұрын
It’s the guy
@TimTimes
2 жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner the air umbrella guy micheal
Been waiting to use this and finally had the chance with my current edit going on now. Great job. Thanks 🤙 That earned a sub for sure!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
awesome! would love to see it when it’s posted!
YESSS MAN! when they released this feature I KNEW there had to be a way to use it to centre footage! Thank you so so much for doing this!!!!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
you’re welcome!! so glad it helped!!
WOW! I'm so glad you figured this out!! Amazing video!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
thank you!
Thats awesome Cody! Thnx for sharing this!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
you’re welcome!
Thanks man gonna try this one soon!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
yea dude!! you’re welcome!!
Got it to work extremely easy in about 2 minutes. thank you!
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
whewww love to hear it!
THIS IS CRAZY HELPFUL! THANK YOU!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
awesome! you’re welcome!!
Man! You literally change my day! Great hack!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
yass! glad to hear it!
This is exactly what I was looking for. THANK YOU SO MUCH Cody! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 I dedicate this next 🔥short to you, my guy
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
i love to hear it!!!
This video was super helpful, thanks for the tutorial!!!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
you’re welcome! thank you!!
great one! thank you. this can help a lot
Hah this is such a legit workaround! Love it dude!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
thank you man!!
Great stuff man!
Dude, this is perfect. I can't tell you how many times I looked for how to do this and came up empty. THANK YOU. Maybe explain how it all works another time. It's just pure magic right now, and I don't understand it!
@falklumo
Жыл бұрын
Well, the basic idea is to track motion in the inverted clip, so the tracker contains motion coordinates of the background, not the foreground. The motion coordinates of background and foreground add up to zero (if one moves left, the other moves right, relative to each other).
Been looking for this hack since the release of the feature. Thanks Cody!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
yes haha!! you’re welcome!!
Thanks so much! Exactly what I needed!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
glad to hear it!
Really appreciate the tutorial. I’ve been trying to figure out this feature for a few months now.
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
So glad to hear it! 🙏🏼
yea! ive been looking a way around this. thanks for this!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
glad it helped!!
Great idea, thank you 👏🏻🔥
SO HELPFUL!! Thank you 🙏🏽
@RCodyWanner
2 ай бұрын
so glad to hear it!!
Just what i was looking for. Thank you good sir!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
let’s gooo!! watch the one in the pinned comment it’s way more concise!
@JoshuaThomasGray
2 жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner oh dang more goodness
This is great. Every other tracker tutorial I went through failed to show how to achieve this result - Thanks!!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped! It's not actually a feature per say, more of a hack on a feature haha
@bgore29
2 жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner IMO it should be, and a solution like this could be much more intuitive BUUUUTTT until then we'll work with the Cody Hack!
Thank you, Cody!!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
you’re welcome!
YOU ARE A GENIUS ! THANK UUUUU
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
🙏🏼🙏🏼 you’re welcome!!
It took me a while to find a tutorial using it with the transform tool. Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
do you mind sharing what terms you were using to look? so that i can optimize my tags and description?
@HPRshredder
2 жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner Not at all; “final cut object tracker center”
@falklumo
Жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner My term was "final cut pro tracking to autocrop" and you turned up 4th hit under "videos".
I might never use this but I really enjoyed watching this video!!!! 🙌🏻
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
ahh love it! thank you!
BRO YOU SAVED MY LIFE LOL NEEDED THIS FOR A CLIENT AND IT WORKED PERFECTLY
@RCodyWanner
9 ай бұрын
so glad to hear it!!
LEGEND 👑
Yes yes yes! Thank you sir! 😊
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
you're welcome!!! 🚀🚀
THIS IS GOLD.
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
👏🏼👏🏼 so glad it helped!
Wow, this was made two years ago. Which means everyone and their mothers have moved on. I saw this video just now, but came back just to leave a comment. This is one of the sweetest things I've ever seen. And there's something about those sweet moves that you throw down in the clip that just make it amazing. We should make super awesome videos together. ;-) Lol. Awesome video.
Mind Blown!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
that’s what i like to hear!!
Happy Thanksgiving Cody and fam from 🍁
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
you too Joe! thank you!!
Very cool!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
means a lot coming from a premier pro guy!!
i don't understand the logic behind it however I followed each step and it worked like a charm! thanks for the help and wisdom.
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
you’re welcome! i should have explained the logic!
Life saver, thank you so much!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
my pleasure!!
This is an insane hack!!! Thank you
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️
Thank you
This is ingenious!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
glad it helped!!
Honestly I don’t understand this at all but I just did it on my last video and works perfect. Looks so good! Thanks🎉
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
so glad to hear it!!
This is cool!
Dang, this is nuts. I gotta try this so I can conceptually understand the flipping image thing, lol
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
haha do it!
@philippharri689
2 жыл бұрын
holy... I still don't understand why you would need to flip it for tracking to work?! need to try it out myself...
@seriouzfilmz9397
2 жыл бұрын
Did you find out
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
you flip it to make the video file (top layer) move in the opposite direction of the object within the video (bottom layer) - if you didn't flip it, it would move in the same direction, so instead of canceling out the motion, it would add to it
Fun stuff!
This is awesome!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
thank you man!
@LotharRadscheid
2 жыл бұрын
very awesome, but now here in germany it ´s 0 C cold, so when i am going out now to try this, can i wear my shoes :-)
@amazing_satya
2 жыл бұрын
@@LotharRadscheid yeah, but u can go without clothes
@rokitmix7345
2 жыл бұрын
When are we going to see a video production with both of you? This guy named Peter creates good stuff too!
Cody I just gotta say, you look great man!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
thanks man!!
thanks
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
TQ Cody. SUBSCRIBED!
@RCodyWanner
4 ай бұрын
🙏 thanks!! let me know if you'd like a tutorial on anything else!!
Not sure what's better...the tutorial itself or those street moves! 🕺🏻🔥😂
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
hahahahah
DUDE! You have NO idea how many years I've spent doing this face tracking thing manually! This is literally the MOST USEFUL tutorial I've ever seen. THANK YOU!!!!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
yesssssss! i’m a manual tracker too! or used to be!
@howtokdj1498
2 жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner Big props man, and I also just discovered the tracking feature recently, this was truly so helpful :)
Audio: vocal fry - 11. ;-) this is awesome. Thanks for tracking demo. Wish this was in much earlier version about 5 years ago for some sports videos I was doing for kids,
This was awesome. Thanks so much! Now to figure out how I can use this in my real estate videos! Ha ha.
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
haha yes!!
thank you !!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
you’re welcome!
Cool hack! Might not be something I use but enjoyed the video.
Thank you, im hoping with this knowledge i can start making videos and being proud of the silly things i put together
This is genius👍👍👍😃
you rock!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
🚀🚀 thanks!
GIANT LIFE HACK thanks a million
Cool!
YEESSS!!!!!
Dang he beat me to it 😂 just figured this out myself because I was like hey! I bet there’s a way! Was gonna make a vid, dang you Cody! 😆
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
you should 100% still make it!
Once I track someone, there should be an option to keep them in the center of the frame. This would help when making vertical content when you have to zoom in and move your x axis.
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
that would be a great option i hope the add it! this is a workaround until then for sure
@hellohogo
2 жыл бұрын
apparently only tiktok has mastered this lol
@falklumo
Жыл бұрын
I was stunned too that Apple did not include an easy way. They do it in their new webcams (center stage or something). And it is the core feature of Insta360 software.
BOSS! 🙏
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
🙏🏼🙏🏼
I watched till 'Shortcuts' 🙌🏼
@RCodyWanner
Ай бұрын
👏👏 thank you!
Just jumping and being that guy- "overcranking" actually refers to your frame rate only and only when your camera is recording at a rate above your project's frame rate with the intention of adjusting it later. Such as a 24fps film using slow motion shot at 120fps but then slowed and incorporated to 24fps. However, this was a fantastic explanation and I liked it a lot. I'm just a terminology dork :)
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
very true! in college we overcranked on our 16mm Bolex and then it would come back from the digitizer in slow mo -- loved that. i would like to humbly posit that the term has evolved as the tech has, and though it originally meant literally turning the crank on a film camera faster than the film was going to be projected, we can now use the term "overcranking" to refer to anything that is faster than it should be for the situation... as long as we are specific about exactly what we are over cranking 😄, in this case, the shutter
Dope hack broski...
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
thanks!! 🚀🚀
Yes!!!! I have been trying to figure out a way of doing this since the update come out.. Thank you!! Btw, How on earth did you come up with that?
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
haha good!! glad to hear it! i just love this affect so much, and the more i thought about it, the more i realized a mirror on the object would completely cancel out that objects movement!
I don't understand why it should be flip vertically. 😅..need to rewatch it later tonight.
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
check out the video in my pinned comment! He does a great job explaining why!
Gonna try this right now! (I just googled “chicken head tracking effect on Final Cut pro” 😂) and I found you , and some chicken farm weird videos
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
hahahahaha so glad i came up in the results
I was thinking about buying the Pixel tracker but after watching this I don't know if I need it. Thanks!!
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
love it!!
@a-51labsstudio90
Жыл бұрын
Bless you!
Very helpful man! I was wondering if this thing would be possible with the new FCP update. Not sure what I am missing... but how comes you need to flip the video?
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
thank you!! you flip it in order to cancel out the objects motion! so if the object is moving up within your image, you want the actual entire image to be moving down at the very same time!
Thank you very much for the tutorial!!! 🙏
My next day off of work definitely gonna try to make something similar work in davinci.
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
Jay Lippman has a tutorial i think!
@NoobieTaco
2 жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner I'll definitely check to compare after I try figuring out myself.
Great tutorial Cody !👌 BTW, what keystroke app you use for showing your key strokes in the screen capture ? 🙏
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
ah man i forget now? i used to use key castr, but i think i had to change when i upgraded to apple silicon
thanks for the video. I've tried over and over, and it sometimes works and most of the time doesn't. And i don't know if it's a bug in Final Cut or me not using the proper settings, even though i did start from scratch quite a few times. It seems that it's simply not following the tracker most of the time. I put the top video in 50% opacity and the objects move in opposite direction, which i believe means the top video is simply not following the tracker. Even though the checkboxes are checked. If anyone has the same issue, please let me know :) ! thanks UPDATE: it works if the top video is at 100% but not if I change it to a -120 or -150..., so i got around it by making those 2 a compound clip and then scaling up the compound clip
@RCodyWanner
4 ай бұрын
great problem solving!
Hey Cody, I’m using a 3840x2160 video trying to make a reel format video. Using your video I succeeded in keeping the object centered horizontally in the frame of the reel, but not at all vertically. The object goes up and down till the black from under the video comes up, while the object disappeared above the frame and vice-versa. I really don’t know what I’m messing up 😩 Any idea? Yo are very much appreciated 🙏
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
hm seems like only X is being tracked instead of Y?
WTF? How did you figure this out? This is awesome!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
haha thank you man! i just wanted it so bad and thought about it a lot!
Hi there, I inserted an image into a video shot. The video shot is panting from left to right but the image is also moving. I want to make it looks like that image has been on the wall. I want to luck the image and o don't and to it moves, do you know how to fix it ? Thank you
@RCodyWanner
11 ай бұрын
hmm yes, but it's a slightly different use of this tool (in fact, that is what the tool is intended for) does the wall have any sort of contrast, like lines of cinder block? the tool won't work without some contrast to track
@kazerani1364
11 ай бұрын
@@RCodyWanner that's okay I'll try to find out
Could this be used with 360 video that is exported as “over capture” to track an object in the 360 video rather than using keys frames?
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
that’s a great question, i don’t see why not, but i’ll have to test it
Great vid! Overcranking is having a higher frame rate, not a higher shutter speed.
@RCodyWanner
9 ай бұрын
imo, you can overcrank anything - the iso, the shutter, i guess not really the f-stop. so "overcranking the shutter" is having a quicker shutter speed than you should... but yes, overcranking, from the days of shooting film, is capturing a higher frame rate than is going to be projected
@MsBob314
9 ай бұрын
@@RCodyWanner ok all good. New definition for the term. All good! Great vid!
Thanks for the tips..definitely weird stuff that I don't totally understand in terms of why certain things are working the way they are, but my biggest question is, where do I make adjustments and on which clip if something seems too rough? Im making manual adjustments on the bottom clips tracker but none of my changes are reflecting on the final result. nothing I change anywhere really seems to be showing in my results..any thoughts? EDIT: I figured out I have to just re-analyze the motion tracking, but it works so fast and sporatically. Is there a way to just manually fix a few frames without it having to re-analyze automatically? its hard to keep up with it and it risks messing more stuff up thanks again
@RCodyWanner
5 ай бұрын
you can do this, yes! Apologies for the delay in my response. Here is a quick unlisted tutorial on ow to do it kzread.info/dash/bejne/eoZ12ZueddW1lLQ.html - to summarize, once you have stabilized the clip, select the top-most version of the video in the timeline, go to the area that you want to manually correct, and add a keyframe on the X & Y axis - then hit the transform modifer over in the viewer (bottom left) and manually readjust the video file to be sticking to the spot you want it to be (in the tutorial, I use a red x to help me see where I want the object to be sticking)
hey good stuff. one question, why do you rotate the clip 180º, for me it worked perfectly fine just by not doing this as well 🤷🏻♂️
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
interesting! i wonder if your objects movement was strangely symmetrical? generally you need to mirror the clip in order to cancel out the objects movement
By the way, where did you get that pouch for the SSD cos I have tried to attach velcro on mine but it doesn't stick on the SSD and it is just so much easier to attach the external drives on the lid!
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
that is from a fellow creator Oliver Wright!! just google “fail fast pouch” that’s his brand!
Therapist: Karate Cody isn't real. He can't hurt you. Karate Cody:
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
hahahaha
He need to be proud that Michael commented on this video
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
very
this helped a lot. but that shutter speed is nuts. you'd have to have immaculate lighting indoors for that to work right?
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
you would! but honestly if you just go like 2x normal, you’ll be fine - 1/100 or 1/200 for 24fps would work fine it was just really bright outside haha
@barbographer
2 жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner hey who needs a nd filter? XD
Who at KZread do you have to complain to to see the date a video was uploaded?
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
I feel this on a gut level - seriously even hard to find for YOUR OWN vids - this was uploaded on November 21, 2021 - 212 days ago
Dude....Like...how? hahahaha!! I bet this happened by a mistake and you just found out a great bug that is a great solution! HUGE R E S P E C T!! Great video my friend.
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
haha i figured it out on videoleap and then when fcp released tracking i thought hmmmmm
@Emiliotakas
2 жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner So rad!!
How do I do this tracking in only a portion of a clip? Like, if I want to track a basketball player shooting the ball, I want to get the play before hand, and as soon as he releases that ball, the ball is being tracked. Is there a way to be able to track a portion of the clip?
@RCodyWanner
10 ай бұрын
yes, the key is to slowly key frame the ball to the center of the frame during the lead up, then it is in position once you are ready to track it. cut the clip there, and follow this method, then make sure the frame of the last clip, and the first frame of the tracked clip, line up perfectly - let me know if i explained it well enough, if not i'll make another tutorial (i'm sure other people have the question)
is there a good app or plug in that does this quickly? if so what’s it called? Any free ones?
@RCodyWanner
7 ай бұрын
not that i know of for FCP - maybe someone else knows
Nice video! Is it also possible to only track on the X axle, so if an object is going up and down, this motion is not tracked, only left and right movement? So in your video: the camera would not follow you head up and down, but only left and right
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
it seems like it would be, but i can’t wrap my head around how to do it automatically, since you can’t track X & Y independently
@LeonartMusic
11 ай бұрын
Did you find a way to do it? Would LOVE to know, I've been googling for like half an hour and have found NOTHING on this
@4x4electric
10 ай бұрын
@@LeonartMusic I did not.. using Davinci now..
Since it says "No plugins," I'm just curious what kind of plugins are out there that do this kind of stuff. Anyone have any recommendations? For those of us who are too lazy to follow instructions ;)
@RCodyWanner
Жыл бұрын
there's one called FCPX Auto Tracker 2.2 - Precision Point Tracking Tools for FCPX from pixel film studios -- it works fairly well, but sometimes takes a lot of tries
This is great! How does it work or does it work if you leave your clip in landscape orientation? Do you have to punch in real close to the subject you want to track or is that necessary to get the almost 3D looking effect you have here?
@RCodyWanner
2 жыл бұрын
it’s just using the motion of the object and telling the clip to move in that very same way - but since we mirrored it, it moves in the exact opposite way - canceling out the movement completely. landscape is fine yep! you only need to punch in as far as necessary to make sure the clip doesn’t track out of the frame - if you center tracked the object while shooting super well, you’d only have to punch in a little
@jasonnowwhat5041
2 жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner awesome, thanks man! I scored to try this. Looks super useful for client social media type stuff too!
@jasonnowwhat5041
2 жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner awesome, thanks man! I scored to try this. Looks super useful for client social media type stuff too!
@jasonnowwhat5041
2 жыл бұрын
@@RCodyWanner awesome, thanks man! I scored to try this. Looks super useful for client social media type stuff too.
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