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: czcams.com/video/BimJ9PCF5kI/video.html
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!
haha thanks so much Armando!
This is amazing! I’ve spent so long looking for something like this so great job!
ah so glad to hear it!!
I was actually searching for a video on this! I have recently started editing in FCPX after switching to MAC. Awesome! Thanks a lot
The gains on the left hand are impressive! Nice video bro! I was longing for this feature for so long
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!
glad it helped!!
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!!!!
you’re welcome!! so glad it helped!!
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!
awesome! would love to see it when it’s posted!
This is exactly what I was looking for. THANK YOU SO MUCH Cody! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 I dedicate this next 🔥short to you, my guy
i love to hear it!!!
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!
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).
WOW! I'm so glad you figured this out!! Amazing video!
thank you!
Hah this is such a legit workaround! Love it dude!
thank you man!!
Hi, hope you had a nice Thanksgiving Cody.
MICHAEL! thanks so much!! i hope you did too!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
It’s the guy
@@RCodyWanner the air umbrella guy micheal
Man! You literally change my day! Great hack!
yass! glad to hear it!
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.
Thanks man gonna try this one soon!
yea dude!! you’re welcome!!
Been looking for this hack since the release of the feature. Thanks Cody!
yes haha!! you’re welcome!!
Thats awesome Cody! Thnx for sharing this!
you’re welcome!
THIS IS CRAZY HELPFUL! THANK YOU!
awesome! you’re welcome!!
Got it to work extremely easy in about 2 minutes. thank you!
whewww love to hear it!
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!!!!
yesssssss! i’m a manual tracker too! or used to be!
@@RCodyWanner Big props man, and I also just discovered the tracking feature recently, this was truly so helpful :)
This video was super helpful, thanks for the tutorial!!!
you’re welcome! thank you!!
Thanks so much! Exactly what I needed!
glad to hear it!
BRO YOU SAVED MY LIFE LOL NEEDED THIS FOR A CLIENT AND IT WORKED PERFECTLY
so glad to hear it!!
Really appreciate the tutorial. I’ve been trying to figure out this feature for a few months now.
So glad to hear it! 🙏🏼
great one! thank you. this can help a lot
YOU ARE A GENIUS ! THANK UUUUU
🙏🏼🙏🏼 you’re welcome!!
Honestly I don’t understand this at all but I just did it on my last video and works perfect. Looks so good! Thanks🎉
so glad to hear it!!
Great stuff man!
Just what i was looking for. Thank you good sir!
let’s gooo!! watch the one in the pinned comment it’s way more concise!
@@RCodyWanner oh dang more goodness
This is great. Every other tracker tutorial I went through failed to show how to achieve this result - Thanks!!
Glad it helped! It's not actually a feature per say, more of a hack on a feature haha
@@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!
Happy Thanksgiving Cody and fam from 🍁
you too Joe! thank you!!
Great idea, thank you 👏🏻🔥
yea! ive been looking a way around this.
thanks for this!
glad it helped!!
Very cool!
means a lot coming from a premier pro guy!!
This is awesome!
thank you man!
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 :-)
@@LotharRadscheid yeah, but u can go without clothes
When are we going to see a video production with both of you? This guy named Peter creates good stuff too!
It took me a while to find a tutorial using it with the transform tool. Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.
do you mind sharing what terms you were using to look? so that i can optimize my tags and description?
@@RCodyWanner Not at all; “final cut object tracker center”
@@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!!!! 🙌🏻
ahh love it! thank you!
SO HELPFUL!! Thank you 🙏🏽
so glad to hear it!!
Thank you, Cody!!
you’re welcome!
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.
you’re welcome! i should have explained the logic!
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,
Yes yes yes! Thank you sir! 😊
you're welcome!!! 🚀🚀
Cody I just gotta say, you look great man!
thanks man!!
Not sure what's better...the tutorial itself or those street moves! 🕺🏻🔥😂
hahahahah
THIS IS GOLD.
👏🏼👏🏼 so glad it helped!
Mind Blown!
that’s what i like to hear!!
Dang, this is nuts. I gotta try this so I can conceptually understand the flipping image thing, lol
haha do it!
holy... I still don't understand why you would need to flip it for tracking to work?! need to try it out myself...
Did you find out
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
Life saver, thank you so much!
my pleasure!!
This is an insane hack!!! Thank you
🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️
LEGEND 👑
This is ingenious!
glad it helped!!
This was awesome. Thanks so much! Now to figure out how I can use this in my real estate videos! Ha ha.
haha yes!!
thanks
You're welcome!
This is cool!
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! 😆
you should 100% still make it!
Thank you, im hoping with this knowledge i can start making videos and being proud of the silly things i put together
Fun stuff!
Thank you
TQ Cody. SUBSCRIBED!
🙏 thanks!! let me know if you'd like a tutorial on anything else!!
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?
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!
Cool hack! Might not be something I use but enjoyed the video.
Great tutorial Cody !👌 BTW, what keystroke app you use for showing your key strokes in the screen capture ? 🙏
ah man i forget now? i used to use key castr, but i think i had to change when i upgraded to apple silicon
This is genius👍👍👍😃
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
hahahahaha so glad i came up in the results
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 :)
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
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?
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!
GIANT LIFE HACK
thanks a million
YEESSS!!!!!
thank you !!
you’re welcome!
I watched till 'Shortcuts' 🙌🏼
👏👏 thank you!
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.
that would be a great option i hope the add it! this is a workaround until then for sure
apparently only tiktok has mastered this lol
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.
you rock!
🚀🚀 thanks!
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.
haha i figured it out on videoleap and then when fcp released tracking i thought hmmmmm
@@RCodyWanner So rad!!
Came here after some FCPX "wizard" on his blog affirmed it can't be done ...
Thanks a lot, a huge time saver for sure! Needs a lot more views though.
haha to the wizard’s credit it couldn’t be done for a very very long time
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!
that is from a fellow creator Oliver Wright!! just google “fail fast pouch” that’s his brand!
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
you can do this, yes! Apologies for the delay in my response. Here is a quick unlisted tutorial on ow to do it czcams.com/video/HRAw9eErOdQ/video.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 🤷🏻♂️
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
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 🙏
hm seems like only X is being tracked instead of Y?
BOSS! 🙏
🙏🏼🙏🏼
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?
that’s a great question, i don’t see why not, but i’ll have to test it
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?
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
@@RCodyWanner awesome, thanks man! I scored to try this. Looks super useful for client social media type stuff too!
@@RCodyWanner awesome, thanks man! I scored to try this. Looks super useful for client social media type stuff too!
@@RCodyWanner awesome, thanks man! I scored to try this. Looks super useful for client social media type stuff too.
Hi Cody, Not related to your topic, but may I ask where you got that MacBook pocket for your external SSD?
yep that’s from oddwright on instagram! click the link in his bio and go down to “SSD Pouch”
@@RCodyWanner Thanks for the tip. Just ordered one.
Cool!
Dope hack broski...
thanks!! 🚀🚀
He need to be proud that Michael commented on this video
very
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
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
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
@@LeonartMusic I did not.. using Davinci now..
I was thinking about buying the Pixel tracker but after watching this I don't know if I need it.
Thanks!!
love it!!
Bless you!
What tool for video capture do you use? I like how pressed keys are big and clear
that’s called key stroke pro! and then just regular QuickTime screen recording
@@RCodyWanner thank you so much!!! Can't wait to check it out. I use Screenflick for screen recording and keystrokes are nowhere near this good-looking
WTF? How did you figure this out? This is awesome!
haha thank you man! i just wanted it so bad and thought about it a lot!
My next day off of work definitely gonna try to make something similar work in davinci.
Jay Lippman has a tutorial i think!
@@RCodyWanner I'll definitely check to compare after I try figuring out myself.
this helped a lot. but that shutter speed is nuts. you'd have to have immaculate lighting indoors for that to work right?
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
@@RCodyWanner hey who needs a nd filter? XD
is there a good app or plug in that does this quickly? if so what’s it called? Any free ones?
not that i know of for FCP - maybe someone else knows
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?
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)
Great vid! Overcranking is having a higher frame rate, not a higher shutter speed.
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
@@RCodyWanner ok all good. New definition for the term. All good! Great vid!
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
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
@@RCodyWanner that's okay I'll try to find out
Therapist: Karate Cody isn't real. He can't hurt you.
Karate Cody:
hahahaha
this was a familiar face to me... and I only recognised you when you said cody wanner ... I didn't even notice the channel name...
haha amazing!!
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 ;)
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
Are you any relation to David Wanner who used to live in Naperville, IL?
Nope! Not that I know of!