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After effects CS6 3D Camera Tracker
Each time I try to use this feature After Effects hangs on the ‘initializing’ phase and never actually applies it. This is strange as well because the exact same thing happens with warp stabilization and I had the same issue which I was unable to resolve in CS5.5.
Warp stabilization works for me in Premiere Pro for some reason so this is not too much of an issue for me.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any suggestions to solve the problem would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Dan
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The effect starts off automatically AFAIK. Can you describe more on this ‘initialization stage’? A screen cap perhaps?
Can you provide more information on your clip?
Duration:
File Format/CODEC:
Layer OR Nested Comp:
Resolution:Cheers
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The file itself is shot at 25fps 1080p with a Canon DSLR so it is a .MOV using the H.264 codec if I’m not mistaken, and the clip itself is only about 3 minutes long. The strange thing is After Effects still runs smoothly, it does not crash. There is the blue banner across the preview that says ‘initialising’ and under the effects panel next to ‘rendering frame x of x’ it also is stuck on initialising for about an hour or so before I go ahead and stop it.
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Same for me ! never could launch the camera 3D tracker !!
it hangs and the CPU gets overloaded with aefslink that never quits !
working with a 2011 Imac. The same applies with a 2010 imac. -
[Daniel Fischer] “The file itself is shot at 25fps 1080p with a Canon DSLR so it is a .MOV using the H.264 codec if I’m not mistaken, and the clip itself is only about 3 minutes long”
3 minutes is a very long time to track anything. Do you really need to track something that long? There are hefty memory requirements for both the Warp Stabilzier and 3D Camera Tracker. Here’s a link that spells it out – https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2012/05/memory-and-storage-tips-for-warp-stabilizer-and-3d-camera-tracker.html
I suggest that you both look at reducing the duration of your required tracks. If that is somehow not possible then here’s a workaround –
1) create a smaller, lower version of your clip – ie if you are starting off with a 1920×1080 clip, then create a smaller version, say 640×360 (ensure that the screen and pixel aspect ratios are identical for both the original and the low res duplicate).
2) import the lower rez movie and apply 3D Camera Tracker to that. Insert all the objects that you want into this scene.
3) When you are done, go to the Project Panel and duplicate this comp. With the duplicate selected in the Project Panel, goto File>Scripts>Scale Composition.jsx.
4) In the dialog box, enter 1920 into the New Width text entry box and hit the Scale button. Very quickly, the comp will be scaled. CLose the dialog panel and open the new comp.
Your objects, Nulls, Text, Solids etc will be in the scene as they were in the lower rez comp. Your camera will have been adjusted to work with the higher rez comp.
Now all you need to do is to drop in the high rez, original footage into this comp and switch off the visibility of the low rez layer.
There are disadvantages to this workaround for object removal and more tricky stuff such as camera projections but as long as your clip isn’t very long, which should be the case most of the time, you should be able to enjoy the benefits of the 3D Camera Tracker.
HTH
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The problem is not the size of the footage. Mine is a test with only 200 frames.
But the analyze cursor stays at zero the whole time. Not starting at all.
I tried with the master suite and the production suite.
I’m only installing AE, premiere, speedgrade and prelude.
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JP, it could be a footage related issue. What file format/CODEC are you working with? Also, try re-rendering the video out to something ‘safer’ such as QuickTime Animation CODEC and use this for tracking.
Cheers
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It’s a 7D dslr mov file.
I’ll try another format but I never read that AE could’nt handle DSLR file with the CS6 version?
I also saw some tests using DSLR footage without any problem.
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It’s not a compatibility issue but possibly memory-related as the AVC file requires a fair bit of processing during decoding. How much RAM do you have on your machines.
Please report back on the result after trying with the QT Animation CODEC.
Cheers
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12 GB
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The same happens with small QT compressed files…
I’m lost. This is useless…
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