Anyone have any any ideas how long it would take to recreate this in After Effects?

[Joseph W. bourke]

I own and use The Foundry’s Camera Tracker for AE – it has a relatively steep learning curve (nothing like 3D Studio, mind you – I’ve been working with that for over 10 years and I’m lucky if I know 20 percent of the features), but that said, it’s very powerful, and can do some difficult 3D tracks.

I just installed the Adobe CS6 Master Collection, and started doing the 3D tracks which I’d used the Foundry’s tracker for, and I must say that right out of the box, it nailed things that would have taken quite a bit more time in The Foundry tracker. I haven’t gone much under the hood with it, but it appears that there’s not much need to go under the hood and fiddle with point cloud accuracy and all that hoorah. I do think Boujou is overkill for the project you’re looking at; I see it as an investment for shops which specialize in SFX projects. I’d say that if you’re ready to make the jump to CS6, you could definitely accomplish the tracks in your sample video with AE’s new feature.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Estelle Baylis]

Forgot to say a proper thank you to all of you for your replies. As usual, I got side tracked with other jobs! Anyway, I now have CS6 and looking forward to trying out some motion tracking 🙂