• Adobe After Effects

  Motion Tracking and 3DS

  Posted by Michael Schnyer on February 18, 2009 at 3:26 am

  Hello all, I have a fairly simple (I hope) question.
  I want to take footage that I have shot and apply an effect from 3DS to it (a character creates a ball of fire in his hand; this is for an exercise, don’t worry).
  Here’s my question: if I motion track the data in After Effects, can I export that data into 3DS and use it to animate my object accordingly? I’m using FumeFX if that helps. The reason I want the 3D object animated as opposed to just manipulating the 2D footage in After Effects is because I want the smoke and fire to react to movement.
  Anyway, I hope I was clear, thanks.
  -Michael

  Michael Schnyer replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mike Park

  February 18, 2009 at 4:42 pm

  fwiw,

  Syntheyes does work for both 3d max and afx
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  Michael Schnyer

  February 18, 2009 at 5:29 pm

  Hi, thanks for the response. I was afraid of that, but it seems that buying a full tracking program would be a sound investment anyway.
  Thanks!

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