12: 2D Player Tracking

2D Player Tracking plugin

Overview

The 2D Player Tracking plugin is an additional licensed feature. The feature allows for automatic keyframing of players within a clip. This creates paths for tracked targets, which can then have graphics linked to them. 2D player tracking does not require a chromakey or calibration to be set in order to be initialized.

Workflow

Step	UI
1. Ensure that your license is licensed for Tracking Data.
2. Enable the 2DPlayerTracking plugin in the plugins tab of the Config Editor.
3. To turn on the player tracking engine, select the player tracking icon.
4. It will then turn red.
5. Now, select the players in the video that you wish to track, this will add a green target to your selections.
6. Press the tracking engine play button, this will turn
7. In the Preview Window you will then see bounding boxes tracking your players of choice.
8. Once you are happy with the tracked paths, stop the tracking engine by pressing the pause icon.
9. Now reload your clip. The paths will be stored as keyframes.
To link a graphic to a path, select a keyframed tool, hit the link in the bottom left of the GUI and click inside the target. To turn graphics on and off, use Production Start/End.

Player Auto-Tracking

Overview

The Player Auto Tracking plugin is an additional licensed feature. The feature allows for automatic keyframing of players within a clip. This creates paths for tracked targets, which can then have graphics linked to them. It does not require a chromakey or calibration to be set in order to be initialized.

Workflow

When a clip is imported to the Paint the player tracking will automatically start running in the background once the import is finished. Paths of players will start to be tracked from the beginning of the clip.

Progress of the background tracking is visualized by a progress bar over the clip. Both the clip and generated paths can also be used during the tracking process.

Re-track players

The tracking process can also be triggered manually by an action in the clip context menu. If you want to re-track players simply select the Track Players option.

Cancel

The tracking process can also be canceled by selecting the Cancel Tracking option in the clip context menu.

Limitations

macOS machines need to have version Big Sur or newer. The speed of the calibration process is dependent on system hardware. M1 Macs and PCs with strong GPUs will perform best.
Currently not available for recorded clips with multiple inputs, only single input recordings or imported clips.
After calibration is defined on a clip, the player paths need to be re-tracked to be converted as 3D