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  • a different 2 pass motion tracking possible

    Posted by Bipop Upreti on July 17, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    Hi so i have been getting bad tracks and i know all the usual suggestions “use another track, precomp with curves adjustment, blur out, etc etc. anyways I was thinking of a new idea, and was hoping if someone with knowledge would enlighten me if this would work and if so how to do it.

    So, Basically my solution was. if i get a bad track, I would

    track the footage to some decency

    if track somewhat locks on then stablize the footage.

    Precomp it. Now I have a somewhat stablized footage with less movement.

    so now i would retrack the footage with the smaller movement which i think AE would track better.

    Now my problem is how to reverse 2 tracking data so i actually have camera movements. I know how to reverse track when i have 1 tracking data, but i am confused as to how to do it for 2 seperate datas to get the perfect track.

    Jim Dodson replied 16 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Peter O’connell

    July 18, 2009 at 4:21 am

    Hi, you can do so with a few expressions between the layer with the tracker data and the layer you want to invert the tracker data for, like so:
    anchor point = position
    position = anchor point
    rotation = rotation*-1
    scale = 10000/scale

    Pete

    roguekeyframe.com

    PS: try tracking in Mocha

  • Bipop Upreti

    July 18, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    I would track in mocha but i do not know how to import tracking data for sky replacement, as far as i know mocha exports spatil rotation data and AE doesnt import spatial it imports temporal or vice versa

  • Curious Turtle

    July 18, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    I don’t know what problems you’ve had previously, but you can absolutely bring in rotation data from Mocha. If you want, use a null to contain the tracking data. Ditch the anchor point keyframes and parent your sky layer to the null.

    If you can’t get a good track of the sky itself, then turn the sky into a 3D layer and push it back in Z-space. Scale it back up to compensate and you should get a good sky replacement.

    Hope that helps,
    Ben

    Curious Turtle Pro Video
    Training | Editing | Support

  • Jim Dodson

    July 19, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    There is a similar strategy that Mackdadd has created called “TrackerViz” — it is an incredible FREE script that basically allows you to track a layer sveral times (as many times as you want) then AVERAGE all those slightly different tracks together — the result is incredibly rock steady tracking…

    The script and details can be found here:

    https://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1070

    Jim Dodson

    8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX

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