mouse tracker

[lotems17792987]

i have a video with a mouse cursor..that i want to cover with a white circle on it. the courser moves alot,

tried to do it with a tracker but b/c the courser moves fast and into different direction it wont track it good

any suggestions?

[Martin_Ritter]

I'm not much into tracking, but try to redefine the tacking area, so it covers the mouse movements better.

[lotems17792987]

can you tell me how to do this?

[Martin_Ritter]

I thought of this:

After Effects Basic Tutorial - MOTION TRACKING - YouTube

*Martin

[lotems17792987]

didnt work.. the mouse is moving fast and the ttracker losses it

[kirkeric]

I assume you are trying to highlight where the mouse is going for some reason.  If you have tried these other methods, you may have to do it manually but I'm not sure how long this video is. That fact that it's move fast, would make some of those movements easy with motion blur, etc.

BUT, here's a thought, maybe NOT highlight the entire way and just bring in the highlight as it approaches each destination and pause if necessary to ensure the viewer sees it long enough to digest.

Again, I have no idea how long this is or whether it's like a tutorial or what.

Eric

[Martin_Ritter]

Can you post a part of the video with this high mouse movement?

[dj.summitt]

If this is a recording from Camtasia, you can export from Camtasia with no cursor. Then just add it in later with keyframes. Much easier than tracking it.

[kirkeric]

If it's Camtasia, I'm pretty sure it has a feature built in TO highlight the curser.

Eric

[Rick Gerard]

It is a hundred time faster to do that kind of thing in your screen capture app. Any screen capture app worth its price will have a feature to highlight, enlarge, or in some other way emphasize a moving mouse.

If that is not an option, and the feature region includes the entire mouse pointer, and the search area includes enough area to include movement between frames, and the background isn't going to confuse the tracker, then your best option is to turn off keyframe visibility in the Preferences Display Panel so you don't get confused by all the tracking points, then. carefully go through the tracking process and pause whenever the tracker loses the mouse and move it manually. It's really easy to see errors and make corrections if the screen isn't cluttered with keyframes, but it is going to take some time. There is no magic solution to that kind of tracking problem, it just takes time.