Newbie needs support. Matched moved overlay GFX in AW

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Without you being more specific and without knowing your version of AE, here are a few things to do:
Use the Adobe website to learn the basics. There are a few good tutorials here, aetuts+, Lynda.com, videocopilot and many others.
Camera Track – create a camera that will match the real life camera move
Create elements- either in a design program, like Adobe Illustrator (vectors of the lines, numbers and all other stuff you want in the shot)
Animate the elements
Position them in 3d space
Pretty basic stuff, but as I said, spend time in the adobe help pages to learn the basics.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Ben Lewis]

Hi, thanks for your response! I’m currently using CS6 but found that I didn’t get much luck in the camera tracking stage so a friend suggested I use Boujoe. I’ve got a much better track now but not sure what to do with that data now it’s in AE. I have lots of nulls and presume you parent things to them? The problem is I want to draw an object over something in the scene. I have a football ( soccer ) pitch in shot and want to have lines appear over the real lines on the pitch. Then I want numbers to appear that represent the distance in the shot. These will float over the ground and produced shadows. Thanks for your feedback. I just need some more info! Thanks again. Ben

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Here’s a tutorial that explains how to get a camera solve from Boujou exported to AE:
https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-mograph-urban-jungle-day-1–ae-442

Camera Tracker from The Foundry is also a good option to get a camera solve.

One you get a good camera solve you can then position your elements to match the perspective of the shot and use Radial Shadow to add shadows to them

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Ben Lewis]

Thanks very much your help! Cheers!