Making an effect of a receding engine glow

[Mike Clasby]

Only if you have the Pro version, motion Tracking only lives there.

Just select the layer with the Spaceship (or precomp that if the spaceship is it’s own layer with Alpha), then Animation>Track Motion. The default for Track Motion (type Track: Transform) is with Position checked, also check Scale. Then Set track Points 1 & 2 in good trackable spots (here’s where the Art of it comes in) and hit the Analyze Forward (or 1 frame) Button. Make sure the “Edit Target>Track Motion To” has your Engine Glow layer selected, the hit Apply. You should be good to go.

Here is an Andrew tut for manually fixing track points that want to wander, at about 5 minutes in:

https://forums.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/cartoon_look/CC_LiveTrace_Pt_3CD.mov

Here are all the other tracking tuts I know of (overkill I know, but handy when you need them):

Track It

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100362&xml=ae65tttrack

Keep motion in perspective

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100241&xml=aft65cornerpin

Using the new Motion Tracker

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=487&xml=aft6ttmotiontracker

Tracking obscured objects in video

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=399&xml=aft6tracking

Aharon’s tut:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/cartoon_look/index.html

movie here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/cartoon_look/CC_LiveTrace_Pt_3CD.mov

Andrew Kramer (AE Cow Moderator) does some AE Tracking in these tuts:

42. Advanced Sky Replacement July 16, 2007

43. Demon Face Warp July 23, 2007

Here:

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html

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