Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 219)

214 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Animating effects
Last updated 8/12/2010
4 Drag the displayed frame to mark the object, and click Track Objects to track the motion path of the tracked object.
The tracked object appears as a yellow frame. If you want to track more objects, click Add Object again to add a
new tracking object.
5 Drag a clip art image to the Monitor window. You can attach the clip art image to the tracked object (frame) when
the tracked object changes from yellow to blue. You can also add effects to the tracked object. For more
information, see “
Effects Mask ” on page 215.
Note: When the clip art is dragged, one of the tracked objects is automatically highlighted. To choose another tracked
object, continue dragging the clip art over the tracked object until the blue highlight switches to the desired tracked object.
6 Position the clip art in the required tracked object, and release the mouse button to attach the clip art to the motion
path.
Important: You cannot unlink the clip art attached to an object and attach to another object. However, if you have
attached the clip art to a wrong object and dropped the clip on the monitor, right-click and delete this clip art. Drag the
clip art again to attach it to the desired object.
7 To apply the clip art to the motion path and generate the necessary keyframes, click back in the Timeline or
Sceneline to exit Motion Tracking mode.
Important: To generate keyframes, you can click the next frame navigation button on the player control in the Monitor
window.
Motion Tracking analyzed clips
1 Place the analyzed clip in the Timeline or Sceneline.
2 To enable the Motion Tracking mode, click the Motion Tracking icon to the left of the Zoom controls.
3 In the Motion Tracking mode, the Monitor window displays only the selected clip contents instead of a composite
view of all clips. Automatically tracked objects are highlighted with yellow frames in the Monitor window.
Note: In addition to the automatically tracked objects, you can also mark objects manually for tracking. Click Add Object
to mark new objects for tracking.
4 Drag a clip art image to the Monitor window. You can attach the clip art image to the tracked object (frame) when
the tracked object changes from yellow to blue. You can also add effects to the tracked object. For more
information, see “
Effects Mask ” on page 215.
Note: When the clip art is dragged, one of the tracked objects is automatically highlighted. To choose another tracked
object, continue dragging the clip art over the other tracked object until the blue highlight switches to the desired tracked
object.
5 Position the clip art in the required tracked object and release the mouse button to attach the clip art to the motion path.
Important: Once attached to an object, you cannot unlink the clip art and attach to another object. However, if you have
attached the clip art to a wrong object and dropped the clip on the monitor, right-click and delete this clip art. Drag the
clip art again to attach it to the desired object.
6 To apply the image to the motion path and generate the necessary keyframes, click back in the Timeline or
Sceneline to exit Motion Tracking mode.
Important: To generate keyframes, you can click the next frame navigation button on the player control in the Monitor
window.