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Tutorials – Natron

Article from Issue 221/2019

Author(s): Paul Brown

Tracking is good for stabilizing video clips, and it helps you put stuff in scenes that wasn't there in the first place.

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Motion tracking is used extensively in movies and TVs nowadays, not only to turn actors into all sorts of fantastical creatures, but also, more subliminally, to create interesting scenery for what would otherwise be a mundane backdrop. It doesn't have to be fantastical settings either: Actors may seem to be walking down an avenue with a view of the Manhattan skyline or dining in a fancy restaurant, when, in reality, they are just strolling on a regular street of an anonymous Canadian city or sitting in a blank room with a few props in front of a green screen.

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