MS13 Cookie Cutter Tracking

alex-lopes wrote on 1/19/2014, 2:06 PM
Hallo everyone, this is my first post here.
Although I had "MS HD Platinum 11", I never knew about these forums, until 3 days ago when I updated to "MS Platinum 13".
So, one of the features I use the most is hiding car plates and people's faces in videos (Gaussian Blur + Cookie Cutter).
In "MS11" I could do the CC tracking in the blink of an eye... but now with the "MS13" I am not being able to do it... I just don't get what I am doing wrong... I am sure it will be a simple "click" I should have done, but I just don't get it...
I would be really pleased if anyone could clarify what I am doing wrong.
Thanks in advance for the help.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/19/2014, 2:53 PM
Guess it depends on what you're clicking, Alex.

Keyframing the center of the cookie cutter works the same in version 13 as it does in previous versions.
vkmast wrote on 1/19/2014, 3:05 PM
And the Animate button in vs. 12 and 13 is the Clock icon.
alex-lopes wrote on 1/19/2014, 4:02 PM
Thank you Steve and vkmast for answearing the topic.
Well... I am trying here the whole night and didn't get the blurred area to track/follow the moving object...
I'll keep trying...
Thank you guys again for your replies!
D7K wrote on 1/19/2014, 7:41 PM
How about trying the "witness protection" preset in the New blue plugin called "selective focus"? Appears to do what you want without too much hassle.
alex-lopes wrote on 1/20/2014, 3:48 AM
Thank you for your reply, D7K. Ihad no idea about this NB Selective Focus.
I played a little with it and I found it nice, but for objects/people you don't have to track.

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So, just to let you guys know.
Last night, I did gave up trying to get the tracking to work on MS13 and I went back to MS11 and did my work there, and then I decided to open the saved project on MS13 and the tracking (made with MS11) worked pretty fine.
So today I re-opened the project and analyzed the cookie cutter window, noted down which of the small clocks were clicked/animated. Then I started a new project and the tracking worked... Really... I still don't know what I had done wrong on the first thousend attempts, but now it works! :-D
Thanks again all of you for your messages.

EDIT: BTW, I noticed that after I opened the MS11 project on MS13, some red dots started to show. They were not being displayed yesterday.
MSmart wrote on 1/20/2014, 12:26 PM
...some red dots started to show...

That's why it's never a good idea to drink and edit. EUI..... Tsk tsk tsk.
UKharrie wrote on 1/27/2014, 5:00 PM
As "Car Number Plates"
"Corporate Advertising" and
"Peoples faces"
- all tend to remain One colour and shape, I wonder that most camcorders can "track" - yet software for video-editing has this clunky cookie cutter.

In most photo-editing programs the user can draw a (cutter) shape, or use the colour/brightness to do it for them . . . a tweak on the expand/reduce sorts out edges, along with "Feather n-pixels) . . . why hasn't Movie Studio developed this after 13 versions, I wonder?

Suggestion:
Make it possible to "Invert" above-selection too, so the effect can be applied to the whole image except the interesting bit - for example Gaussian blur, or a gradient darken. So the viewer attention is on the interesting bit. What would be nice is a progressive Gaussian Blur...so you could specify the Start and Finish extent of Blur.

Keyframing is a wonderful tool, but so clunky in modern times, Esp. when the computer should be working it out itself.