AE's tracker: show current points but hide the others

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February 27, 2021
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I'm using the built-in AE tracker with 4 points. The layer window is getting terribly cluttered with all of the other points and their connecting lines. I looked under "View" but none of the options give me what I need. I'm figuring there probably isn't an easy way to hide/show those rotten buggers but if somebody knows a secret, please share.

Thanks,

- DK

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Correct answer Mathias Moehl

Each trackpoint has its own eyeball icon. Switch it of, to make the points in the comp viewer invisible

Mathias Moehl

Community Expert

... and as an additional remark: In general, I highly recommend to use the mocha Plugin that is bundled with Ae for any serious tracking tasks. If you want to track four points, most likely you want to do something like a corner pin. For this, mocha will give you much better results that Ae's point tracker.

Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects

Mathias Moehl

Correct answer

Community Expert

Each trackpoint has its own eyeball icon. Switch it of, to make the points in the comp viewer invisible

Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects

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Chasdenonno

Participant

But this also removes the tracker itself from the view, which makes it a bit pointless if you're simply trying to double check that a tracker is set correctly while fixing the track point on that frame.

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

When I use AE's point tracker I almost always turn off all keyframes so the Layer panel stays uncluttered. I change preferences all the time. I also change workspaces all the time. It is a more efficient way to work.

Roland Kahlenberg

Legend

Goto AE's Preferences - and head into the Display Section. The Motion Path Section at the top allows you define the time duration of keyframes you want to view.

BTW, if you're using 4-point tracking in AE, there's a very high probability that you will obtain better tracking results with the bundled BorisFX MochaAE planar tracker.

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