Keeping Track of the Trackers

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‌Keeping Track of the Trackers ‌

After an auto-track, you will have hundreds or even thousands of trackers. To help you see and keep track of them, SynthEyes allows you to assign a color to them, typically so you can group together all the related trackers.

SynthEyes also provides default colors for trackers of different types. Normally, the default color is a green. Separate default colors for supervised, automatic, and zero- weighted trackers can be set from the Preferences panel. You can change the defaults at any time, and every tracker will be updated automatically—except those for which you have specifically set a color.

You can assign the color by clicking the swatch on the Tracker panel, or by double-clicking the miniature swatch at the left of the tracker name in the graph editor . If you have already created the trackers, lasso-select the group, and shift-click to add to it (see the Lasso controls on the Edit menu for rectangular lassos). Then click the color swatch on the Tracker panel to set the color. In the graph editor panel, if you have several selected, double-click the swatch to cause the color of all the trackers in the group to be set. Right-clicking the track panel swatch will set the color back to the default.

If you are creating a sequence of supervised trackers, once you set a color, the same color will be used for each succeeding new tracker, until you select an existing tracker with a different color, or right-click the swatch to get back to the default.

You will almost certainly want to change the defaults, or set the colors manually, if you are handling green-screen shots.

You will see the tracker colors in the camera view, perspective view, and 3-D viewports, as well as the miniature swatch in the graph editor.

If you have set up a group of trackers with a shared color, you can select the entire group easily: select any tracker in the group, then click the Edit/Select same color menu item or control-click the swatch in the graph editor.

Each tracker has two possible colors: its primary color, and a secondary color.

The secondary color is used for each tracker when the View menu's Use alternate color menu item is checked. The second color is usually set up by the Set Color by RMS Color script; having done that you can switch back and forth between color selections using the menu item.

To aid visibility, you can select the Thicker trackers option on the preferences panel. This is particularly relevant for high-resolution displays, where the pixel pitch may

be quite small. The Thicker trackers option will turn on by default for monitors over 1300 pixels horizontal resolution.

Note that there are some additional rules that may occasionally override the color and width settings, with the aim of improving clarity and reducing clutter.

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