Motion tracking question

[Steve Roberts]

AE can’t do that. You need to buy 3D matchmoving (3D tracking) software such as PFTrack or Syntheyes.

[Mike Clasby]

Here’s all the AE Motion Tracking tuts I know of, they’ll give you a quick overview of what AE can do.

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

And for a practcal use of Tracking, see “Part Three: Compositing your footage in After Effects”, the 3rd part in Aharon’s video series, “Creating a Cartoon from Video”, here:

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

This from Adobe stablizes old footage, “Old-time movie revival hour”:

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100899&xml=aft65sdrotoscope

[Straight A]

For 3D tracking Pixel Farm’s ‘pfHoe’ works well and exports its tracking data to a lightwave scene file (LWS) and it is only

[Alien]

Thanks for the links. I believe I will be picking up syntheyes.

[Solhex]

This is another question really, I just thought I’d keep it within the same thread. I’ve had quite a bit of success using Icarus with Blender 2.42 (both free) However I’m having difficulty importing the 3d and 2d camera data into after effects. on some of the video tuts I’ve seen regarding this, it’s a simple cut and paste of human readable camera data into the 3d AE camera. This however was with AE 5.5 and I’m using AE7 pro Is there still a way to do this?

[Joey Morelli]

…but it’s limited to DV ftg.