Face tracking not working

Question

Might be another set of bugs in AE, but I have a short clip of about 5-6 seconds designed for face tracking. I draw the mask around the face and select and track the face outline, which creates a mask path of keyframes, so far so good.

But when I create a null and try to parent it to either the mask path or the video layer I get a warning, and if I try to copy the mask path keyframes into the position of the null the app freezes/crashes.

I can do this process in mocha, but is the face tracking feature not fully implemented, or is it something I am doing improperly?

The other tracking functions such as camera and motion tracking work fine.

Mylenium · Answer

Masks are masks are masks. They don't produce any data that is compatible with transform data since mask keyframes store compound data for all points of a mask, not a single point. You have a severe misunderstanding of the process. If you need to extract specific info, use the expression based methods to connect Nulls to masks and such. Other than that it simply sounds like waht you are trying to do could possibly be done in a million other ways, including coneventional manual 2D point tracking, but without specific info nobody can be certain of that.

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