Add parallax to Motion Tracking

You need to do this. When Motion tracks, when the tracking point leaves the frame, it stops tracking. Move the playhead back a few frames until you can clearly see the tracking point.

Then in the Inspector check the "Offset Tracker" and pick a new traking point. Then hit Analyze again. This combines the first track up to that frame, then seemlessly switches to the second tracking point.

You can do this several times, too.

Next, you can do keyframes and Behaviors to your text when a Match Move is applied to it. I'm testing it now with a GrowShrink behavior, very much as you're discribing. Works great.

But a Throw behavior specifically isn't going to work, as you're effecting movement, which is what the Match Move does. You can't make an object move in two different directions at once.

But you want a Scale parameter change, not a Position parameter change. So try the Grow/Shrink behavior.

Actualy, you can use throw or just about any other animation with tracking behaviors. You have to remember to change the Transform option in Match Move to "Mimic Source" you probably have it set to "Attach to Source". Attach will act like a lock and hold the tracked object in place. Mimic will combine keyframed animation or other behaviors with the tracking animation.

It's not that you have to move the text that far. (I just tried this.)

Spilt the text track... Remove the match move behavior from the new text track.... Lineup the new text track to where the other text track stops... Add a position two key frames to the new text track and move it manually out of the frame. Adjust the key frame to adjust the speed of the text moving out of the frame.

You can do all of this in a few minutes and you can't tell that anything is amiss. Sometimes you have to do things manually. Alot of people do the whole thing manually. It's called rotoscoping,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

Or like I said before, save tons of time and use the OFFSET control, takes only a minute.

http://help.apple.com/motion/mac/5.0.5/#motn18191def

hi,

all of the above. And you could simply increase the z space aparameter of the text object to bring it closer to the camera. This will start to give you the parallax look you want. Of course now your going to find you need to move your camera back to give distance between the footage and the text which means the camera will see past the edges of the footage which means you'll need increase the scale of the footage.

hth

adam