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Best Tracker
I was wondering what the most accurate tracker is for AE? Any stand alones that work well with AE? What are opinions of combustions tracker?
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Well, AE’s tracker is one of its weaker points, its not horrible, but its not as good as it could be. I (MEANING JUST ME) believe that combustion has a better tracker, and whats good about it is if your confused with working in combustions interface you can just export the tracking data and bring it into AE. But if you really want to get away from pixel tracking and put in some money (and a good amount of it) Go for Mocha. There should be a link to mocha somehwere on the left of this very page on a banner. It is a planar tracker and works VERY WELL.
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Mocha seems nuts! Does roto as well!
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Combustion’s tracker is killer! It was ported from Inferno, Combustion’s high-end cousin. I’ve done stuff, such as track footage onto multiple tv screens in a long, moving shot, and, while it wasn’t easy, it would have been impossible in After Effects. No matter how good the tracker, you’re going to have to do some hand tweaking of keyframes – there’s no way around it. So if you’re quoting the project out, allow an extra 50 to 75 percent of the time you think it’s going to take for all the extra tweakage. It’s easy to get your track really close in Combustion with one pass – it’s tedious to make it look perfect.
The best thing you can do is in the pre-pro – make sure you’ve got marks or dots that are high-contrast for track points. If you can, get a motion control rig, with people that know how to save the camera coordinates – those can often be imported into Combustion, so there’s no need for tracking…just the final tweak.
Joe Bourke
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Ditto… the MOCHA… nothing else even comes close to what MOCHA can do when it comes to tracking and rotoscoping.
Joe
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I third the Mocha suggestion.
If you’ve got a spare
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