How to: Track mouse cursor using motion tracking?

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How to: Track mouse cursor using motion tracking?

First off, everytime I've tried motion tracking in a video I actually wanted to use it in (not an easy practice tutorial video) I never had it work properly.

I am building a tutorial for students in my class on how to register on a few websites we commonly use. All I want to do is have the mouse cursor highlighted or stand out in some form.

I wanted to motion track my cursor, then pick a shape and have it match move. Unfortunately the motion tracking didn't follow my mouse.

Does anyone else have any advice? It would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Posted on Apr 30, 2012 1:28 PM

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2hottay Author

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May 1, 2012 7:20 AM in response to 2hottay

Any input would be great! Is there anything else to use besides a program like mousepose?

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May 1, 2012 12:39 PM in response to 2hottay

hi

what did you do to track the mouse, perhaps someone could help with that.

or you could just keyframe the position of your shae over the mouse.

adam

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May 1, 2012 2:03 PM in response to Adam Scoffield

I used the Track Motion behavior and put it on the mouse pointer. I thought I was going to run into problems when the mouse cursor turned into a finger when I scrolled over a link but it didn't even follow the mouse cursor when it started to move.

If that worked I was going to make a the shape/image I wanted to track/follow the mouse and match move it to the mouse tracking.

I suppose I could go keyframe by keyframe, do you suggest that is the best method?

Thanks for the response Adam!

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May 1, 2012 2:14 PM in response to 2hottay

how many tracking points did you use to track the mouse? Does the mouse have sufficient contrast from its background?

if there is a lot of random movement you might need to keyframe a lot, if its gentle you could get away with less. make your shape as big as you can then you dont have to track the mouses moevments exactly.

adam

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