• Adobe After Effects

  problems figuring out tracking motion (transform)

  Posted by Andreas Sweden on November 16, 2006 at 10:23 am

  I have read the manual and got the tracking to work but when I select animate ->track motion my target layer disapears in the compositon window.

  What am I doing wrong? I have set the motion source and the motion target. What do I need to do to see my motion target?

  Todd Morgan replied 19 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mylenium

  November 16, 2006 at 11:16 am

  You track in the layer window, not the composition. Therefore you never see your target, only the layer the tracker works on.

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  Todd Morgan

  November 16, 2006 at 1:36 pm

  sometimes the tracked layer and the target layer become offset, depending on what you have done with your animations already. i find that once i have applied the position/rotation keyframes from the tracked layer my target shifts, so all i do is go to the position keyframes of the target layer, make sure i am on a keyframe, select all keyframes (just click on the POSITION title and they all get selected) then move your layer in the comp window to where you need it…

  Todd Morgan
  Creative Director
  Freelance F/X Inc.

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