About the Tracking Tool

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Tracking Tool in the 2D View surrounds any track key point.

The Tracking Tool is composed of two rectangles, an inner rectangle containing the Pattern Zone and an outer one containing the Search Zone.

A track is identified through the pixels around it. All pixels in the Pattern Zone are considered for this identification. During the tracking process, MatchMover looks for that pattern anywhere in the Search Zone in the next frame.

NoteTo change the colors of the Pattern Zone and the Search Zone, select Edit > Preferences, click the Color tab in the User Preferences window, and change the color of the corresponding sample box.

By default the size of these zones is determined by the Default Search Size and Default Pattern Size settings in the 2D Tracking page of the User Preferences window that applies to all new keys created. See Configuring the tracker. You can set independent values for each new key with the following procedure:

Click a corner to uniformly scale the rectangle. The pointer changes to a double-headed arrow.
Click the center of an edge to size the selected edge only. The pointer changes to a double-headed arrow.

To change the size of the Tracking Tool for a selected point, enter the values in the Pattern Zone and Search Zone fields in the Parameters Window. When adding a key to an existing track, they Pattern Zone and Search Zone sizes will be copied from the closest existing key of this track.

TipTo set the size of the Tracking Tool for all tracked points, see Configuring the tracker.