Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel - Manual (Page 300)

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DaVinci Resolve has an incredibly simple, yet powerful, object tracker that allows you to quickly and
accurately track any Power Window (Circular, Linear, Polygon, or Power Curve) to follow any moving
feature. This avoids the need to manually use dynamics (keyframes) to animate a window’s position.
In particular, you can use the tracker to match a window’s position to either foreground or background
elements that move within the frame.
Simple Tracking Using the Tracker Menu
The simplest way to track a feature using a Power Window is to use the commands found in the Tracker
menu. These commands include:
Track Forward (Command-T): Tracks a Window to a feature from the current position of the
playhead forward, ending at the last frame of a clip.
Track Reverse (Option-T): Tracks a Window to a feature from the current position of the
playhead in reverse, ending at the first frame of a clip.
Track Stop: Interrupts any track. This is useful for letting you cancel a long
track that goes wrong. The Stop button of a control surface
stops tracking as well.
Most window tracks are easy to accomplish using these three commands.
Object Tracking and Image Stabilization
A power window tracking a women’s eyes; the motion path resulting from the
track is shown as the wiggly white line