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05 · HyperTracker

Make text followwhatever moves.

Or make a shaky shot sit still on one point. It starts from Premiere’s own mask tracking.

Pin text to a maskStabilize on a pointBlur a moving faceUndo with one button
YOUR TEXT

Illustrative animation. Pause it with the button at the bottom right.

The problem.

Sound familiar?You want a name to follow someone as they walk.

Premiere tracks masks, but won’t let you pin text to them. And stabilizing a handheld shot on one specific point is another fight.

HyperTracker reads that tracked mask and turns it into movement for something else: a name that follows a person, a label stuck to a product, a blur that follows a face or a license plate.

What it does.

Three ways to use a tracked mask.

Track

The text, graphic or clip you choose follows the mask in position, scale and rotation, smoothed to remove jitter. It writes to its own Transform effect, so the text’s Motion stays free for your tweaks.

Stabilize

Moves the image so the mask point stays pinned at the center, with automatic scale so no black edges show.

Write to an effect

The mask center can also move an effect’s point, like the center of a blur or a mosaic. Useful to blur a face or a license plate that moves.

Remove

Remove tracking and Remove stabilization put everything back.

Work flows.

One trick and the steps that go with it.

Workflow 1

A name that follows the speaker

The trick: make a small circle on a high-contrast point, like an eye, a corner or a logo, and track it with Premiere’s masks. Defined details track far better than flat areas.

  1. 01

    Track the mask in Premiere

    On the clip, draw a small elliptical mask over the point and track it forward.

  2. 02

    Save the project

    A mask’s tracking can only be read from the project file.

  3. 03

    Capture

    Select the clip on the timeline and press Capture from selected clip. Choose the mask.

  4. 04

    Pin or stabilize

    Select the texts, choose what they follow (position, scale, rotation, axes) and press Parent to mask. Or press Stabilize.

The HyperTracker tab: capture from the selected clip, pin to the mask, stabilize and remove buttons.
Real panel screenshots, Premiere Pro 26.5, macOS.

Good to know.

It needs a saved project
Mask tracking is read from the project file.
Defined points track best
An eye, a corner or a logo beat a flat wall.
It is built on Premiere’s tracking
HyperTracker reads the tracked mask; the tracking itself is Premiere’s.