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FinalCut: Problems aligning a clip to an Object Track

Hello,


I have a clip in FCPX that is just a static PNG I dragged into the timeline. In another clip I have an Object Track following a person's face. When I select just the face (basically just the eyes) and click analyze, the green outline UI shows perfectly tracked eyes throughout the clip. There is never an obstruction to the face/eyes or anything like that, and the motion is not particularly fast or complex. Again, the green ui rectangle shows the exact motion I want from my other clip tracking this, but that's not what happens.


However, when I select the PNG clip and set it to use the Object Track I created the clip seems to move well beyond the tracking area. It's like the layer "yo-yos" or is elastic. If the eyes move a net amount of let's say 100px to the left, the object that's using the tracker moves 300px.

Also note, that I have to set the scale on the PNG clip to about 10% to make it the right size, but even removing the scale from the clip still shows it translating in the same way beyond the original object track's movement, so I don't think that's related.


Any suggestions? I have already tried the "Pin to Tracker", and it has the same issue. I have tried PNGs at 72 dpi and 300 dpi thinking it was a pixel scale related bug. I've tried a JPEG and another clip that is an MP4 video, all have the same over-translation problem. I have tried re-analyzing several times, and tried several different clips.


Thank you for reading.

Posted on May 15, 2023 7:16 PM

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Aug 6, 2023 5:30 PM in response to ktmglen

In my case, here's the setup:


16x9 horizontal background video.

9x16 vertical video with green screen chroma keyed over the background video with a person moving in it.

Small PNG graphic that I'm trying to get to follow the face of the person in the vertical video.


If I try this as three layers, the offset of the PNG graphic relative to the tracking box containing the face goes haywire. The center of the PNG does not stay centered on the center of the tracking box.


If I make a compound clip of the two videos then apply the PNG and face tracking to the compound clip instead, everything works perfectly.


It's like Final Cut Pro can't deal with the multiple scales and offsets of the two bottom video layers and the face tracking at the same time. In short, I gave up and created a compound clip.

FinalCut: Problems aligning a clip to an Object Track

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