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USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4

Animation and keyframes

Last updated 12/21/2009

Sean Kennedy provides a set of detailed tutorials on the SimplyCG website that demonstrate advanced motion tracking

techniques:

• Basic 2D tracking

• Planar tracking

• Head tracking

• Motion tracking and compositing computer-generated elements into a scene

• Screen tracking and replacement

Sean Kennedy provides a free script, TrackerViz, that makes tracking motion and applying tracking data to masks

easier. You can get Tracker Viz and a series of detailed instructions on the

SimplyCG website.

The Visual Effects for Directors series provides tips about preparing and shooting for motion tracking and

compositing, both using point trackers and planar trackers. Free sample videos include “How to place tracking

markers” and “How to shoot for planar tracking”.

Eran Stern provides a video tutorial on the Artbeats website that demonstrates the use of 3D tracking software that

solves for camera movement so that additional elements can be composited into the scene and appear to honor the

same camera movement. This video tutorial uses Pixel Farm PFHoe, but the techniques can be applied to almost any

matchmoving software.

This post on the AE Enhancers forum describes and links to an animation preset from Donat van Bellinghen for

scaling a set of Corner Pin effect points.

This post on the AE Enhancers forum describes and links to a script from Paul Tuersley that takes a stabilized layer,

precomposes it, and then adds expressions that counter the stabilization.

This post on the AE Enhancers forum describes and links to a script from Paul Tuersley that can make a difficult

tracking job easier by averaging multiple sets of tracking data.

Jeff Almasol provides a script on his redefinery website that creates a null layer with an expression that sets the Position

property to be the average of the values of motion tracking track points for the selected layer.

Motion tracking workflow

The implicit first step of any workflow is to determine the result that you want to achieve before you begin. What type

of motion will you track, and what will you apply the tracking data to?

As with many workflows in the real world, you may have to repeat some of these steps. You can track a layer as many

times as desired and apply any combination of tracking results.

1. Set up the shot

For motion tracking to go smoothly, you must have a good feature to track, preferably a distinctive object or region.

For best results, prepare the object or region that you are tracking before you begin shooting. Because After Effects

compares image data from one frame to the next to produce an accurate track, attaching high-contrast markers to the

object or region lets After Effects more easily follow the motion from frame to frame. Lightweight, brightly colored

balls (such as ping-pong balls) placed on the feature work well, in part because their appearance is the same from all

angles. The number of markers that you use corresponds to the number of points you are tracking. For example, if

you’re tracking four points using the Perspective Corner Pinning option, you’ll track four features, to correspond to

the four corners of the layer to attach. The more markers you add to your subject before shooting, the more features

you’ll have for tracking—but the more items you may have to remove later from the image with the Clone Stamp tool.

You don’t need to add a marker for each feature if a distinctive object or region is already at the appropriate location.

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