Performing Motion Tracking Manually

To perform motion tracking manually:

Open the sequence file containing the sequence of frames documenting the movement of your object of interest.

On the Count/Size tab, click Objects in the Tracking group.

The Motion Tracking ribbon is displayed:

Click on the Add tool in the Manual Tracks group.

You are prompted to click on the object of interest in the first frame.

Click on the object of interest. For example, for the image above, you would click on the fish.

The next frame in the sequence is displayed.

Click on the object of interest in frame 2.

The first vector of the track is drawn and the next frame in the sequence is displayed.

Repeat step 5 until you have tracked the object for all frames for which you want its motion tracked, then click Close Track in the Tracking Message dialog box.

 

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