If you wondered how remove track or track points in After Effects? And you want to do it quickly and easily, you should pay attention that this is a program with many tools, and even though the procedure is actually very easy, you have to pay attention to the details.
After Effects, is a program developed mainly for the post-production of audiovisual media, with which you are given the finishing touches to already recorded videos, with this you can add all kinds of effects and improvements in both the audio and the video. These steps will be dictated with the alternatives in Spanish, so if you have the program in English, You can change it.
What are track points?
Tracking points are the ones used to identify important areas in the clipThese are especially used because they give the editing program a way to move freely through the video., which enables you to add objects without much limitation.
The tracking points enable software to identify surfaces, and thus know how the object to be added should be oriented. This is especially used to create special effects on videos., despite this, these points cannot stay there until the end, and After Effects needs to remove them for the video to look neat.
This effect is applicable to any clip. Despite this, depending on what you are editing, it will be more difficult to remove the tracking points, because the sequences with jerky movements or may suddenly seem untrue, if you do not have enough experience to remove these prints.
Despite this, if what you want to edit and it doesn't have much variation in its movement, removing the dots will not be so difficult and then you can render the video without further delay.
How can I track the movement of a file in After Effects?
This effect is about tracking a video, In other words, an image or a specific point in our video to make it move. Con el programa After Effects, You can track the movement of a file by going tocreate a new custom file, then the files we will work with will be imported, then we click on a new object, In other words, with this new object we will give it the effect of movement.
The first thing to do is go to the window tab and make sure that we have the tracker option checked, where you will have two main options: track camera and follow movements. With the option to track the movement in your video or image we give it movement with a tracking point on the plane to move, once this is done we give it to analyze.
How to apply tracking from one object to another in After
Con el programa After Effects, clicking on a new composition, you can start to apply tracking from one object to another, using a frame, In other words, in this way you will have a cleaner or more efficient work. 
At the same time, After Effects with the object in slow motion, we mark tracking points little by little by following the movement. At the end of the follow-up we click on analyze.
Steps to cancel track points in Adobe After Effects
This program enables us to carry out, from animated compositions, manage to remove the tracking points. For the first method we will use the tool ‘Remove cables’ what does the application bring. First we will have to import the video that we want to edit. After that, in the search menu on the right side of the screen, we will search for ‘cable remover’.
Later we will left click and drag it to the video, there we will release it and it will be applied to us, in the form of a black diagonal line, we will have to place this line on a tracking point, what is the one. which we will eliminate first. On the left side we will get the specific menu for this option, where we can change its values.
We will have to look for the option 'replacement’, and in the drop-down menu we select the option 'sew’ which is the penultimate from top to bottom, this will make the line take the color of the object it is in and hide it.
How to use scratch effect for 3D camera
We can use this other method, first we have to add our video, let's go to the box that says ‘Tracker’ and press' Track Camera’Here you will see how the program adds colored points to the tracking points. We select the ones we want to remove by right clicking on them; in the pop-up menu we click on create solid and camera.
We take the Pen tool and begin to make a circle around the tracking point, when doing so we press the option 'Anchor point’, what we do is move the point and drag it. We observe that it moves, and the skin part will be shown, In other words, the point is hidden being replaced by a part of your skin, this will place the other part that does not have the tip.
Now, we eliminate the 3d camera tracker, we press right click and with time we select freeze frame, where the duplicated video will become a 3D layer. Next we go to the solid, press position and apply Ctrl-V, at this moment we drag the duplicate over the point we want to remove to cover it, In short, click on 'Scale the mask’ and ready.
By doing so at all points, you will see how these they are totally eliminatedIf you want to remove other objects that the photo has, you can do it without any problem, this will not affect the edit you previously made.
Lock the position of markers without using the green screen
To lock the position of the markers without using green screen we must create a new project in After Effects and then a new composition where the size of the height and duration can be modified. Later we drag our video to the timeline to begin we must choose the tool that appears in the panel above, we press the rotoscopy type brush.
The rotoscopy brush to be able to use it must be in a layer panel, then we start by marking with the brush what we want to separate from the background, with a pink color it will mark everything around it.
By last, what you have to do is freeze the rotoscopy brush and once finished we return to the composition and in this way you will have the option of seeing the black background with the object cut out or separated from the background without using green screen.
