Final Cut Pro track and crop

Did you get a solution to this? If not, if you don't mind manual tracking then I might have something you can use.

(original 16:9 upper left)

I have wanted to help, but I am at a loss as to how you might go about this in FCP.

The thing is, by tracking, e.g., the girl's face, you could add something that might move, rotate, or scale with it.

But what you are trying to do is sort of a "reverse tracking", i.e., you do not want something to follow her, but instead you want the crop (or trim, or transform) to compensate for it, so as to keep the girl inside the frame...

I will have to think more about this...

MAYBE you could do it in Motion, by having a Camera track her face?

A few screenshots may help.

I don't think that cropping is really what you are after. Instead, if I understand the situation, you could keep the spatial conform as None, and use the Transform to keep the person in the frame.

Again, a screenshot may clarify.

wilhelm273 wrote:

Attached is what I am after but in my case I have the horizontal video cropped to a vertical and the subject moves out of frame horizontally and I want the crop to follow the face automatically with the tracker if it is possible.

You forgot to post the link

I'm still using Motion 5.4.7 and haven't upgraded. I don't know *anything* about the new tracking features.

You might be able to get what you need from this RippleTraining video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3SufAk-BWw