How to Use Motion Tracking in Filmora 12

Now I've got my footage available, let's add it to the timeline. We can go back home. The lady is running, and let's assume we want to maybe track some text onto her. Maybe to identify her, her name, and so on. It is super easy. Let’s pause it and go back home again.

To use the motion tracking feature, all you need to do is click on this plus icon right here, or you can also use the controls or the button or the keys, ALT, and X. Once you do that, click on this. What this does is that it gives you a new box right inside here, and you can now see the “Motion Tracking” option here, and it’s under the AI tools and the video.

So what can we do? We're going to begin by defining our box or what we want the motion tracking to be applied to, and let's say this is what we want it to be. The lady who is running, we can actually make that particular selection. Once you do that, you'll need to click “Click to Start Motion Track.”

Once you do this, it will analyze the motion track, and you can see that it's following a lady running. Really really awesome. So we’ve already added our first option or the first step that we need to do. You’ll notice that now we have some new track settings here, and you can hide the box or show the box.

You can change the keyframes, and that is if you want, there was a mistake. You can move them around, and so on. Next up, we now have the option to link an element. You can click on this drop-down. Import from your computer, add a mosaic, whatever you want. But let’s do this.

Let’s click "OK," and then we go back and add some text. Let's say we want to maybe add her name, and the name follows along as she runs. So let’s say. We add some “Quick 3D Text”, and once we do that, double click on the text, and we can actually just call it, let’s call her “Pam," and then we can resize this.

Let’s resize it to something like that and then place it somewhere, right there on her head, and then we can adjust this to the end. Now, we already have that. What we need to do now is go back to the motion tracking again, and once we’re in the motion tracking option.

You can now click on “Link Element,” and you’ll see the “3D Default Text.” If you click on it, what happens is that the box disappears, and then when you look at your 3D text track. You'll see a new linking icon, this one right here. That means that we have linked the motion track to this particular text.

If we play this video now. Our text comes in, and then you can see that it is tracked to the lady that is now. What we'll notice is that the text is a little bit far. What we can do is we can actually bring it to the level where we want it to be.

We can actually go “Home” and “Play,” and then the text is going to be somewhere just right about where you want it to be. Super simple and super easy, and the text follows along as she runs. Simply put, that is how you can use motion tracking in Filmora 12. Super easy.