Apple Color 1.5 - Manual (Page 378)

As you add more manual tracking points, a motion path slowly builds following the trail
of the feature you’re tracking.
7 When you’ve finished manually tracking, stop clicking.
That tracker is ready to be assigned to a parameter elsewhere in your project.
Note: Turning off the Manual Tracker does not turn off your manually tracked keyframes.
Sometimes a motion track is successful, but the resulting motion path is too rough to
use in its original state. Often, irregular motion will expose an animated effect that you’re
trying to keep invisible. These may be seen as jagged motion paths.
In these cases, you can use the Tracking Curve Smoothness slider to smooth out the
motion path that’s created by the tracker.
To smooth a track
1 Select a tracker in the Tracker list.
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