Motion Tracking in Premiere Pro | FAST!

Want to know how to motion track your footage in Premiere Pro? Join Tom for this Tuts+ Quick Tip as he shows you how to quickly and easily create motion trackers to add a little wow factor to your edits.

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[CutAboveEditing]

Quick tip here : Instead of doing 5 frames at a time, do the first and last frame, and then, put a keyframe in the middle of the shot. It should follow pretty roughly, then, you can go in the middle of two keyframe and adjust everytime it splits. It makes for a less jittery tracking and can save you keyframes that are not necessary.

That was a great way to do it though. I still don't understand why there is no real tracking module in Premiere. Resolve is way ahead of the curve here and has been for the last 10 years.

This is not motion tracking, just manual tracking. :) If you want to make motion track, please use after effects.

[MrYoobah]

Very interesting and smart way to do motion tracking in Premiere Pro. Yet, not the easiest way...
I still wonder, why adobe doesn't add a true tracking tool in PP, like the powerful one in AE. It would so much simpler.
And considering the fact, that tracking already exists as a tool in every effect we ad on any layer...
Adobe's point of view is still a deep mystery !!
BTW, thanks a lot for this tut ;)

[TrueHelpTV]

Admittedly, After Effects can be a little bit of a beast. - Dumbledore said calmly 0:14

[BatuOpal]

Thanks Envato Tuts+ for providing cool tutorial everyday

[ImLeague]

I did everything u did in the Video Multiple Time.. But When I Copy the Keyframed Transform Fx into the Other Layer and set the anchor point the "Image" wont the moving.. Any tipps or conclusions for that?

[samchatfield]

great tutorial, but for some reason it won't give me the option to copy the transform properties from the text to the video layer, any idea why? ctrl + c ctrl + v won't work and it doesn't at all give me the option to copy by right clicking

[intelligrc]

I wonder why you can't just select the object and move it with the arrow tool which SHOULD automatically update the X and Y parameters but does not. Just another one of the mind-blowing issues with Premiere that greatly affect productivity.

[lythouse]

What about the tut for after effects? .. It didn't pop up as you said..

[AlanM]

Please do a video on how to this in Davinci resolve

[natwebbcomedy]

I encountered a problem, just for future ref. Could you tell me why the overlay I added jumped to a different location during the animation / playback, when I copied and pasted the transform effect and scaled down / adjusted the anchor point as you described. I'm defo missing something and its really frustrating, but I've had to find a workaround (adjusting keyframes for the overlay) and move on. Thanks in advance, this may help others too! :D

[stevecolson]

How do you create a speedo overlay in Premiere Pro?

[steelswitch]

How do I do that but with a video in a video?

[roni_sidhu]

How is it that a FREE mobile app called Capcut can do this with a click of a button yet industry standard Adobe Premiere you still have to do this manually. What is going on!

[Recker]

Oh wow i was gonna buy premiere because i thought it had motion tracking. Bruh i can do this manual crap in camtasia

[HeyItsKora]

2:43 and we're going to put that onto our layer
What? where? I'm a total beginner, all I saw was you drag the transform effect off to somewhere out of frame

[OrdnanceTV]

For anyone curious like I was, "Full Stop" is actually the English/Australian term for "Period". I've been watching UK/Aussie shows for decades and had no idea until this video lol.

[Alsecaa]

Tip: I didnt get the Anchor Point to show at first. But make sure you choose Selection Tool again. That should get your anchor point back.

[PandaApocalypta]

You absolute legend! I tried following some other tutorials but what they didn't mention was that anchor point. I don't know what else I did differently but I trying to figure this out for a lot longer than I needed to until I found your video. Thanks! :D

[miloSILO]

Full stop means period. Just a simple dot. Full stop implies so much more, esp when dealing with motion.