Thanks for the tip Steve. I am aware that you sell Premiere instruction, and from what I've seen in the free samples, it looks like you do a good job of it. So kudos for that, and of course I wish you the best of luck in your business.
However, if it turns out that I have to buy instruction from you to get this working to me that equals Adobe failing to do it's job. I'd rather not come to that conclusion just yet. To me, I already paid Adobe, so it's their job to either design the interface so that not much instruction is required, or provide the needed instruction.
I just spent an hour trying to create the simplest tracking test, and it failed every time. Again, the interface references items that simply don't exist in PE 15, which confuses the process considerably. It says, grab your graphic from the Action Bar, but there is nothing in action bar except redo, undo, and organizer. The video tutorial you link to does the same thing except worse, so I expect it was made using an earlier version of PE.
Sometimes dragging from organizer works, sometimes not. When it does work, image is wrong size (understandable) and can't be resized (not acceptable).
Yesterday I was able to get it to work once. The tracking was really sloppy. However, it did automate the process of creating a bunch of keyframes, and that was indeed helpful. Once I went in to the timeline and edited every third keyframe or so, the end product turned out acceptably well.
Verdict: Tracking is a very cool and promising feature, which is not currently implemented or explained very well. I can see they've made a good faith effort to make it intuitive, but they're definitely not there yet. They should test this stuff on newbies before they release it, and they would immediately see the problem.
BTW, I've been designing software for 20 years. I'm not just pulling these opinions out of my you know where.
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