Tracking in After Effects

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About this Course

Explore all the methods for tracking inside After Effects: one- and two-point tracking, mask tracking, camera tracking, facial tracking, and planner tracking in Mocha AE.
Tracking is an art and a science. It involves locating a point or object in your footage as it moves from frame to frame. The resulting data can be used to stabilize footage or solve camera movement. After Effects provides many powerful tracking tools, allowing you to focus on the creative rather than the technical aspects of your job. This project-based course reviews all the different methods for tracking inside After Effects: one- and two-point tracking, mask tracking, camera tracking, facial tracking, and planner tracking in Mocha AE.

Expert explains which scenario each tool is best suited for, and helps you use your tracking data for specific purposes effects, rotoscoping, compositing, and more and render the results.

 

Topics include:

  • Motion tracking
  • One-point tracking
  • Applying tracking data to effects
  • Mask tracking with the After Effects Mask Tracker
  • Two-point tracking
  • Warp stabilization for tracking
  • Planner tracking
  • 3D camera tracking

 

Contents

 

1. Getting Started with Motion Tracking
What is motion tracking?

Common problems and solutions

 

2. Preparation for Comp
Project brief

Preparing for compositing and VFX

 

3. One-Point Tracking
The Tracker panel

Options settings

Tracking and stabilizing motion

Applying tracking data

Tracking obscured objects

Tracking outside the frame

Using nulls for tracking data

Compositing foreground elements

Applying tracking data to effects

 

4. Mask Tracker
Creating a clean plate

Creating nulls from path

Tracking a background object

Using the mask tracker for rotoscope

 

5. Additional Trackers
Using two-point tracking

Using Face Tracking (Outline Only)

Using Face Tracking (Detailed Features)

Adding background elements

Compositing foreground objects

 

6. Use Stabilization for Tracking
Introducing Warp Stabilizer

Using Warp Stabilizer for tracking

Using Reverse Stabilization

 

7. Planner Tracking
Using Perspective Corner Pin

Using Mocha

Tracking a surface

Applying Mocha data in After Effects

 

8. Camera Tracking
Using the 3D Camera Tracker

Creating a placeholder

Replacing a computer screen

Adding additional elements

Reverse camera tracking

Finalizing and rendering

1. Language: English. 

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