• Adobe After Effects

  Motion path on recorded footage

  Posted by Liam Strutt on May 7, 2020 at 7:12 pm

  Hi, fairly new to this but I have some footage of a model train it comes in frame from the right then corners to head towards camera. I want to add steam to this which looks great with particular but I need to get the motion path to turn and head towards camera. I understand that creating a 3D null layer and drawing the path but the footage is 2D so I have no way to “follow the track” the train is on. Does anyone have any suggestions?

  Liam Strutt replied 6 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  May 7, 2020 at 8:41 pm

  Try the 3D camera tracker:

  Official docs:
  https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/tracking-3d-camera-movement.html

  Great quick guide:
  https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/how-to-use-camera-tracker-after-effects

  Walter Soyka
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  Liam Strutt

  May 7, 2020 at 8:53 pm

  Thank you. I’ll have a look at that tomorrow.

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