How to Motion Track Text in Adobe After Effects
- Drag video clip into timeline.
- Go to main menu and select Window > Tracker Controls.
- Observe a Tracker Controls panel appearing.
- Go to main menu and select Layer > Null Object.
- Select clip in timeline and click Track Motion button in Tracker Controls panel.
- Observe a tracker box appearing in the preview window.
- Position the Tracker box on an easily recognisable good-contrast object.
- Click Edit Target button in the Tracker Controls panel.
- Select the Null layer and press OK
- Click the "play-like" button called Analyze Forward in the Tracker Controls panel.
- Observe the preview monitor playing and analysing. It will take some time.
- After analysing, click Apply in the Tracker Controls panel.
- Select X and Y and click OK.
- Observe a lot of keyframes generated in the preview monitor.
- In the timeline, expand the null layer and select all the keyframes.
- Press keyboard F9 to turn the keyframes into easy ease keyframes.
- Add a text layer, type in your text and modify text whatever way you want.
- (optional step) In the timeline, select text object and click T icon. Drop the opacity down to 50%.
- (optional step) Position the text wherever you want.
- In the timeline, select text object and connect the pick whip (spiral icon) to the Null object).
- Play back to watch the the Motion Tracking in action.
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