Masking, Object Tracking, and Video Stabilization

In this book, you’ve learned how to use the Movie Clip Editor to track the camera motion. Although that is probably its best-known function, this editor can provide many more features. You can use the tracking data to stabilize your footage and make the video look a lot smoother.

You can also track the motion of objects in the video to apply that motion to 3D objects in your scene. Shoot a video of yourself wearing paper markers, track it, and composite futuristic weapons on top of the markers.

The Movie Clip Editor also gives you the necessary tools to create masks over your footage that you can use later in the compositor. Imagine that you want something in the real video to stay in front of the 3D stuff: you can mask it and keep it in front using the compositor.