Trouble with first time motion tracking I'll be concise:


while I can get to motion tracking I don't have the same menus I see on specific tutorials that seem to be running 2.8.  odd.
I can Ctrl+A and place markers all over. 
I cannot get them to track and show tracers when scrubbing left or right, regardless of which track button I'm using (command T, or Shift command T).


Everyone seems to have a menu next to "help" that shows motion tracking as an option.  I've got nothing but tabs up there (layout, modeling, sculpting, UV editing, etc).
The simplest way to access the layout for tracking is to create a new project: File->New->VFX.



It should open with all the windows you need for motion tracking.



To display the paths for tracking marks Open Clip Display and enable Marker Display-> Path