How to approach this motion track?

[Anthony Sneed]

Anyone?

[Andy Kiernan]

it’s a tricky one as the camera is moving in ‘Z’ space and you’re trying to add a 2D plane that is facing the camera, but the front and back of the plate are essentially moving at different speeds.

If I were to tackle this type of shot, I would probably have to bite the bullet and go down the projection mapping and multi-plane route.

So, 3D-track the shot, add a 3D solid aligned to the ground, and project the golf course on it. And add a lot of little solids where there are trees etc. so this adds paralax in. Not for every tree but some to sell it.

Time consuming and quite often a headache but will yield the best results I think.

Edit: also mask out the foreground trees and add them over the top

[Anthony Sneed]

Thank you! I’ve been trying for hours today after I posted and you’re right on a lot of those points. Including the trees on top.

Greatly appreciated

[Anthony Sneed]

This is going to sound crazy but since I edit in Resolve and after enough headbanging w AE and Mocha, etc, I said, let me just look up a Fusion tutorial and try because why the hell not. I literally figured it out and it looks great in under 15 minutes! I attached the final result.

https://vimeo.com/870116276/8d65923e4a?share=copy

Here’s the youtube video that taught me if you’re curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP7pIKWp4kE

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[Andy Kiernan]

ah brilliant glad it’s sorted, and yer looks great!

I really need to start using fusion…

[Anthony Sneed]

The motion tracking abilities in Resolve are hands down the best I’ve ever come across, though Fusion had always been a blind spot for me, I’m going to lean into it more and more so I can get off the Adobe teat for good.

[Andy Kiernan]

yer i think thats a good idea. Thanks for spurring me on to get learning fusion, i needed a kick in the pants to do it ha

[Stephen Smith]

I know you already found a solution…but if you ever want to do this in After Effects then this is how you pull it off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_dO9HGrYS8

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