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  • Motion Tracking

    Posted by Ryan Stubbs on June 19, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    I am trying to create a clip where an large alien walks behind a hedge.
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    I have motion tracked the clip so that the alien follows the camera movement, and now I need to make the alien walk along the hedge. my plan was to simply animate the layer with the alien on it along the hedge, however, when I do this, the motion tracking disappears. Any suggestions on how to do this would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!

    Ryan Stubbs replied 14 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Greg Burrus

    June 20, 2011 at 3:27 pm

    If you trying to track and animate on the same layer shouldn’t work because because you already have keys tracked for position. You would need to set the track on a null or another layer then parent the alien to track layer so it sits in place. Then you can animate the alien’s position with out effecting the track.

    However if your simply saying you track is disappearing then maybe you didn’t actually apply the track to a layer.

    hope that helps somewhat

    /Greg

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  • Ryan Stubbs

    June 20, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    Thanks for the help. A null layer was exactly what I needed to use!

  • Ryan Stubbs

    June 20, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    Yup. I love rotoscoping. Its been such a great tool ever since I learned how to use it!

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