 Hello everybody welcome back another Dolby After Effects tutorial look at this I'm gonna show you how to create the smooth head or Face tracking that you see in so many videos so many dance videos actually to be more specific I'll just load this up here. Look at this. This is a guy from you've probably seen this already But this is the Jesus from the big Lebowski dancing around This is the original shot and you'll see here that I've tracked it When I go into my composition and I've load the grid up take a special look here at his face and where it is in this grid when I hit space bar You'll see here his head and his face is locked in and if I move it forward no matter what It's always locked into the same spot in that grid now I'm gonna show you this technique from front to back. It should take only a minute or two It's very easy to do. Let's get started All right, so the first step here is load some footage up into your project panel like I've done here next drag That piece of footage onto new composition and you'll see here that I've got about six or seven seconds And it's the same clip here where he's dancing around doing his thing I am the Jesus and there we go. So that's the first step now Let's start tracking. All right the second step is you need to load your tracker for me The tracker is right here. You'll see it's underneath paragraph If you don't see it go to window and then make sure there's a check mark beside tracker when you do you'll have your tracker Panel open up the next step after that is to click on Stabilize motion now when you do that you're gonna get a double Square or a double rectangle and if I zoom in I'll show you what I'm talking about You'll see here They've got an outside border that I can pull on and it's got an inside border now depending on what you're trying to do You generally just want to move this into the area that you're looking to track So I'm gonna move it up to his face here I'm gonna put the X for now around his I guess I'll put it around his eyes But it doesn't really matter but watch this I'm gonna pull on the corner and you'll see here that I've changing the shape in the size So something like that and then I'm just gonna pull it down a little bit. There we go So I've got the outer rectangle around his face outside his ears here And again, it doesn't have to be perfect But this is just generally what I find and then the second rectangle I'm gonna basically just put it around his eyes and nose So it just fits nicely around there and then presto and again You can see here that I've got an X underneath it that again It's somewhere right between his eyes kind of thing So there we go now after that you've got that place correctly What you want to do is you want to click on this play button. It is going to analyze it forward I'm gonna do that. It'll take a few seconds to run and then we'll come back. I'll show you the next step All right, welcome back. So here we go. It has analyzed it and you'll see here that this is a trail Because in this scene, I'll move it down a bit and I'll just center it for you You'll see here that in the original shot You'll he actually moves to the right and to the left and basically we've got the Tracking right on his face and it is a great track We never lose it if you ever find that at one point the track gets off you can actually go in and Manually move it around if you need to but you don't need to in most cases But I just want you to be aware of that. So there you go. We've gone ahead and tracked it now Let's get to the next step. All right So the next step here is to simply just click on the apply button when you do that you'll get an option It could apply dimensions X and Y X or Y only that means either, you know On the X axis which is side to side Y axis which is up and down or both So in almost all cases you want X and Y click on okay, and then underneath that you're gonna see it's gone ahead and created All these different tracking points, but now look at it when I hit play Let me zoom out just a little bit for you when I hit play it is now Tracked the only thing that you want to be careful about here is you're gonna see these black bars around the sides And basically what's happening is is whenever there's a place where his face Has quite a bit of tracking the it's trying to center it and it's moving the background So the background is not quite Rex correct So what you can do here to fix this This is a very simple trick is I'm just gonna grab one of the corners here I'm gonna hold down the shift key and I'm just gonna make it a little bigger so that now It's you know We're just zooming in like 20% or 10% and now I'm just gonna go ahead and slide through this and look at this Okay So this isn't quite enough So I'm gonna maybe need to make it a little bigger and I'm just basically picking the place where it's the most Distorted or the most out of wow out of whack so to speak here. We go look at that So everything stays in the shot and that is it now Let's hit play and we've got a perfectly tracked face track smooth track video. Let's go hit play. I Am the Jesus I am tracked correctly inside After Effects. That's how you do it. Thanks for watching