Planar Tracker:
Track and Replace Flat Surfaces
in Video Footage

Is there a dull, flat surface in your video that would be perfect for graffiti or a logo? Perhaps you'd rather have your ad on a bus driving around town? Maybe you want to replace your phone screen with a new video or make a picture or painting come alive while everything is in motion? Try Filmora's Planar Tracking (Beta).
Win 11 /Win 10 / Win 8 / Win7 (64 bit OS)
macOS 10.15 - macOS 15

No-Sweat Planar Tracking With Advanced Algorithm

Filmora's planar tracker utilizes a four-point tracking method, also known as corner pin tracking, which tracks four reference patterns in a video clip or film to gather information on position, scale, and rotation. The four trackers analyze the relationships between the reference patterns, such as the corners of a PC screen or a license plate, allowing you to attach another clip, text, or image to them, much like adding a picture to a frame. Choose automatic or advanced tracking mode, whichever fits your needs and skills.

Powerful Tracking Capabilities

Identify planar areas in videos and images with great accuracy, achieve smoother movement tracking, and make your visual effects more impactful.
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Auto Planar Tracker: Easy Tracking for Beginners

Edit videos like a professional, no matter your skill or experience. Simply adjust the corner pins in the video, and Filmora will automatically track the planar surface for you.
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Advanced Planar Tracking: Super-Precision for Pros

Manually adjust points, configure keyframe dotting, perform recalculation, optimize frame effects, and increase analysis accuracy for more precise planar tracking results.
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Diverse Application Scenarios

Create professional video effects as seen in movies, music videos, and advertisements. You can track an object within the reference frame and pin text, image, stickers, or effects from Filmora's Creative Assets to it. The result is a smooth and natural insertion that adds a dynamic quality to your videos. Planar tracking is perfect for special effects compositing, advertisement implantation, and screen restoration.
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Unlock New Creative Dimensions With Planar Tracking

Planar tracking can elevate creative projects and delight viewers across various industries. It's used in visual arts, marketing, remote collaboration, education, and all other fields that benefit from strong visual impressions.
  • Mask Tracking
  • Ads Integration
  • Visual Effects
  • Animation Production

Safeguard Sensitive Information
in Videos

Planar tracking can be used to conceal or blur sensitive information unintentionally captured in a video, like license plates or personal documents. By tracking the motion of the area containing the sensitive information, a mask or blur effect can be applied to obscure the information throughout the video sequence.

Enhance Ad Campaigns With Flexible
Product Placement

Add a logo, text, poster, or an existing ad to a clip to create a visually impactful and engaging marketing video. Planar tracking is often used in advertising for natural product placement and targeted ads, as it allows you to easily update and adapt material to different audiences and markets and achieve discreet yet compelling results.

Create Stunning Visual Experiences

Seamlessly integrate text, images, special effects, or even entire scenes in a video and create a more visually impactful experience for the audience. Planar tracking allows you to replace a green screen with a virtual background, add a logo or text to a moving object, change the appearance of a flat surface, and more.

Enrich Animated Worlds With
Live-Action Integrations

Bring your animated characters to life by adding live-action elements to their world. With planar tracking, you can have them binge-watch real-life TV, scroll social media in three dimensions, video-conference with actual people, and so much more.

How To Use the Planar Tracker

Filmora's Planar Tracker is an easy-to-use tool for all skill levels and applications. Best of all, you can adjust it to your video editing flow and switch between auto and advanced modes in specific scenarios. In most cases, you can simply select the automatic mode to complete tracking with one click and leave advanced tracking for shaky videos. Note that Planar Tracking is currently available only in Filmora for Desktop.

Frequently Asked Questions

Planar tracking is an advanced video editing technique that lets you track the movement of flat surfaces in videos or films with great precision. Its primary purpose is to keep text, graphics, visual effects, and other digital elements attached to the moving surface, even during complex movements such as rotation, scaling, perspective, and distortion.
No, currently, this feature allows users to track only one planar surface at a time.
All Filmora subscribers can use the Planar Tracker features for free without purchasing AI credits.
Planar tracking is a video editing tool that tracks the four points in the corners of the planar surface within a video, allowing you to insert and secure text or other visual elements while it moves, whereas motion tracking tracks one or multiple moving objects in a video and lets you insert elements to follow that exact movement.
The main difference between planar tracking and camera 3D tracking is the dimensions they help create. While planar tracking facilitates content overlaying and compositing on planar surfaces in 2D, a camera 3D tracker is primarily used to help create a better understanding of a 3D environment by integrating content that can be viewed from different angles.
You can use Planar tracking in videos with a planar surface, such as a screen, wall, sign, plat, etc.
Ideally, effective planar tracking requires a reference frame with a complete plane within it, one that is not blocked by people or objects. Good lighting and contrast, excellent detail and focus, and little or no camera shake contribute to successful planar tracking.
Filmora's Advanced Planar Tracker includes an Accuracy option that can be adjusted. Higher analysis accuracy yields more precise results, but it also reduces the analysis speed.

What Our Customers Say About Us

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Bane B
Content Creator
A while ago, I started doing product reviews for my YouTube channel, and I wanted to make a creative intro where products would appear inside of a laptop screen, a different product for each episode/review. I tried copying/pasting product images within the screen, but I ran into a problem because the intro I made kept zooming in and out of the screen. Last week, I realized I needed to use planar tracking for that, which made me nervous because it seemed a bit advanced. I looked for beginner-friendly planar tracking and found out Filmora had one – plus hundreds of stock photos and videos I could use. Brilliant!
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David Kuc
Visual effects artist
Filmora revolutionized the way I edit footage. The planar tracker is one of the features I use the most – it is very precise and easy to use and allows me to integrate visual effects without having to spend hours on a single clip. It saves me a lot of energy and time, and the quality is unparalleled! I highly recommend it!
customer megan
Evelyn Harris
Teacher
I teach physics with zero learning materials, so I wanted to make classes more interactive for my students. I used planar tracking in Filmora. I was able to create interactive simulations of Newton's laws of motion that my students can manipulate directly on their desks. I have some experience with video editing tools because I used to make online courses, and I can honestly say this was easily the most fun I ever had with software. It allowed me to scale and rotate 2D and 3D objects and overlay diagrams. This year's grades say it all!
customer morgan
Katherine Kowalski
Digital marketing specialist
My team uses Filmora for planar tracking on a daily basis, and it’s so simple! As a marketing company, we do a lot of localized campaigns, so we often need to replace tiny parts of video ads with copies in different languages. This used to cause us a lot of headaches because we had to edit every ad from scratch. That’s all changed thanks to Filmora!