Counting & analysis in ThruTracker
Processing footage, reviewing tracks, and fixing common issues.
The walkthrough
The main ThruTracker 3.0 walkthrough — set up a project, choose settings, process footage, and review results.
From video to count
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Create a project & add your video
Start a New Project in ThruTracker and add your video — copy it in or just reference where it lives.
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Set your detection settings
Set Target Diameter, Target Polarity, Sensitivity, and Max Density, then click Test Current Settings to make sure the boxes land on your targets of interest.
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Draw the gate
If you're counting an emergence, draw a Gate. A bat is counted once it's detected inside the gate and then outside it.
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Process the video
Save and Advance runs detection and tracking across the whole video.
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Review the results
Watch the video with the tracking overlay and check the emergence count. To go further, you can move on to manually vetting the results — classifying tracks or validating counts.
User Guide
The complete manual on a single scrollable page — projects, detection settings, processing, and track review.
Troubleshooting
Jump straight to a fix for the usual snags — no detections, false detections, zero or negative gate counts, or finding the action in long recordings.
Module Quizzes
Short rounds on the calls a good count depends on — reading frames, choosing polarity and target size, and placing a gate.
Training Datasets
Practice on real emergences — each one a ready-to-open ThruTracker project with the clip and the settings that were used on it.
