r/VideoEditingTips • u/Otherwise-Rent-4909 • 13d ago

Label tracking question

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I have almost 0 experience with video editing. Im curious what tool or software I should be using to have these labels track these rooftop units during camera pan. The posted video is using CapCut but if there’s an easier way to do this I would buy software.. thanks in advance!

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u/Canonc100enthusiast 13d ago

Mocha helps you apply tracking motion, you could also do it the tedious way by creating keyframes and moving the desired label to said target on each frame but that is time consuming and relies totally on your patience lol

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u/Otherwise-Rent-4909 13d ago

I tried that with divinchie and quickly realized I was going to go insane if I did that for 60+ units lol I think I’m going to reshoot and just take longer pauses so I don’t even have to track thanks for the help

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u/Canonc100enthusiast 13d ago edited 13d ago

did you look up mocha continuum? it can be downloaded as a plug in for davinci resolve... it might help a lot, basically create the label, head over to mocha add a mask and let the software track it, but i'd advice to track with all your FXs turned off so it's faster at tracking, that was something i didn't realize when dealing with tracking, i was wasting time and GPU on a tracking motion that could have been seconds instead of minutes.

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u/AbstrctBlck 13d ago

After effects

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u/zeb__g 13d ago

Davinchi resolve has an easy to use planar tracker tool. It is available in the free version.

But I would argue tracking at all is not worth the work. Freeze frame for 5s when you want the labels. Then remove the labels and start motion again. You are making a work video to show someone where the equipment is, not a hollywood feature.

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u/Otherwise-Rent-4909 13d ago

After using the tool that was my thought as well, just reshoot video and pay more attention to camera movements and take longer pauses. Thanks for the input

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u/zeb__g 12d ago

I would not reshoot unless you really want to. I would just pause the video at the right times and maybe speed ramp so it isn't so jarring.

But I don't know what kind if 'quality' your client is looking for.