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Planar and point tracking

Two session types cover classic 2D tracking work: Planar follows a flat surface and can corner-pin an image onto it, and Single Point gives you clean manual point tracks. Neither involves a 3D solve.

Planar sessions

A planar tracker follows a flat region (a phone screen, a poster, a laptop lid, a wall) and reports how its four corners move. That's exactly the data a corner pin needs, so screen replacements are the signature use.

Track a plane

  1. Create a Planar session and pick a reference frame where the surface is clearly visible.
  2. Drag the four corners of the quad onto the surface's corners. Favor high-contrast, detail-rich framings; a blank white wall gives the tracker nothing to grip.
  3. Click Track Plane.

The Curves tab shows a per-frame confidence curve for the plane. Under the hood the confidence is the homography inlier ratio, meaning the share of matched features that agree on the plane's motion that frame. Dips mark frames where the surface was occluded, blurred, or left frame.

Insert an image (corner pin)

  1. Pick an image asset as the insert.
  2. It corner-pins onto the tracked plane live in the Frame tab, with an opacity slider so you can check registration against the original surface.
  3. Scrub the shot and confirm the insert stays glued through the move.

Render the composite

Click Render Insert to bake the comp: each frame is warped and composited, then encoded to an mp4, registered in your project as a video asset. For a quick screen-replacement previz or a client check, that's the whole pipeline without opening a compositor. For finished comp work, export the corner pin data to After Effects instead (Exporting tracks).

Single Point sessions

Single Point sessions are all manual: you place every point, the tracker follows each one. There's no solve and no 3D tab. Use them for stabilization references, screen-insert anchors, or 2D tracking data for a comp.

  1. In the Frame tab, use the Add Point tool to place points on trackable detail (corners, marks, texture, not smooth gradients). Manual points draw as diamonds.
  2. Click Track Points. Every point is tracked forward and backward from the frame you seeded it on, so mid-clip points still get full coverage.
  3. Review in the Curves tab: per-point x, y, and confidence, with the shaded band marking frames under the confidence threshold. Click a curve to select its point.
  4. Clean up in the Frame tab: markers are confidence-colored (green, yellow, red), Shift click toggles selection, box-select works on empty canvas, and Del removes selected points from every frame.

Export point tracks as After Effects Position keyframes or Blender empties. See Exporting tracks.