Manual masking is tedious. You draw a polygon, keyframe position, move it, keyframe again, every single frame. There is a better way.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to attach polygon mask to tracking information using the Planar Tracker in Fusion. Instead of animating every keyframe manually, you let the computer handle position and rotation while you focus on minor adjustments. This workflow cuts your masking time significantly and keeps node trees cleaner.

What You Will Learn

- How to set up a Planar Tracker for mask animation

- Using Planar Transform to apply tracking data to masks - Connecting masks through Matte Control for automated following

- When to add manual keyframes versus letting tracking handle movement

- manual vs. tracker-assisted masking