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Motion Tracking Problem
When I’m using motion tracking in AE, if there is little to no movement the tracking points flick random around usually no more than a pixel or two. Howver it creates a very horrible result. I’m using SD interlaced footage. I have tried many different things, grain removal, colour correction, de-interlacing, nothing has worked so far. Please can someone offer any other suggestions? Thanks!
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3 Replies
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Hi you could try averaging 2 or 3 track points around the same spot. If you are really desperate you could track it in Shake and copy and paste the tracker data from Shake to AE. I have had to do this a couple times to track the kind of footage you are describing. If you are interested in trying the Shake way let me know and I’ll give you some more details (There are a couple tricks to make it work).
Pete O’Connellroguekeyframe.com
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Hey Peter, Thanks for the suggestion. I should have said I am using a PC not Mac. Is shake available on PC? If not any other suggestions… anybody? Thanks.
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Hi Shake isn’t sold on the PC platform anymore. The last version for PC is Shake 2.5 I believe. That would work fine if you can get your hands on it. Nuke would work too. You could get a 30 trial of Nuke for PC and just do the tracking in Nuke, then bring over the tracker info to AE. It is a bit involved if you aren’t used to it.
I forgot to mention, try tracking just the red or green channel, or just the luminance channel by converting to yuv space, also try degraining the footage first, add a little blur, add contrast and don’t forget to precompose everything.
Let me know if you need some more help.
Pete O’Connellroguekeyframe.com
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