How To Apply Motion Tracking to a Pan/Crop (Have The 'Camera' Follow)

GrantTheHierophant wrote on 10/21/2023, 12:32 PM

How do I apply Motion Tracking data to a Pan/Crop, so that the camera follows the tracking data? I am having trouble doing this.

I would prefer to learn how to do this now, because up until this point I've been manually keyframing every instance of this effect, and it's wearing me down.

I am using Vegas 20
The footage is 60 drop 1
I am using Windows 11

The tracking (mostly) worked, I just need to know how to apply it.
I would prefer not to apply the data to the entire track, like one has to do with Drop Shadows.
I would prefer not to hand-keyframe it, as there will be more complex instances of this further into the project.

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Former user wrote on 10/21/2023, 12:53 PM

@GrantTheHierophant Hi, sorry i use a different tracker so can't advise but there's Tutorials a the top of this page, maybe they'll answer your question 👍

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/tutorials-search/?query=motion

Robert Johnston wrote on 10/21/2023, 4:03 PM

@GrantTheHierophant

You can apply motion tracking data to a Picture-in-Picture event, but not to the event pan/crop positions, unless someone has written a script for it. There is/was a script that applied motion data to a PIP effect. But that is no longer needed in later versions since you can do that with the motion tracking effect. I suppose the script could be adapted to copy the data to an event pan/crop. @jetdv is always looking for fun projects requiring expert knowledge of Vegas scripting.

jetdv wrote on 10/21/2023, 4:27 PM

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/any-vegas-16-users--127732/#ca794107