If you want to make use of touch tracking on the Sony a6400 to track a subject when shooting videos/movies, then there is one simple setting in the menu that you will need to change.
I’ve created a short video that will show you exactly how to do this. Alternatively if you don’t like the look of my face or the sound of my voice, just scroll down past the video 🙂
When in video mode (on the top dial) the default touch operation of the Sony a6400 is “Touch to Focus”. If you want to track a subject then you will need to change this to “Touch to Track”. Don’t worry it really is very simple.
Just hit the menu button on the back of the camera. Now select “Camera Settings 2” from the top menu, move down and scroll across till you reach page 9/9 which is titled “Custom Operation 2”.
Now scroll down this menu and select the option “Func. of Touch Operation”. By default this is set to “Touch to Focus”. Simply change this to “Touch Tracking” and now when you are shooting video and touch a subject you should see a white box appear around the subject and all being well the a6400 will track it wherever it goes.
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I want to record the video tracking to external monitor, but the touch tracking is disable as soon as I connected the hdmi cable, any solution?
Hi Elfrain. I think the touch tracking will only worth with an external monitor if you disable the HDMI Info Display in the camera settings I’m afraid. At least that’s the case with my Ninja V.
i use different hdmi settings using external monitor but it does not work, maybe only with external recording, if you may check and let me know I appreciated
Do you have the HDMI Info Display enabled in the camera settings? As this will cause the screen to go blank and disable the touch tracking. There are a number of caveats when using external monitors/recorders unfortunately. Gerald does a great job of covering them in this guide: https://youtu.be/2BY0T_UY06U