The Foundary Tacker/Boujou/Mocha!?!?

[Vishesh Arora]

Stuart

If you have AE CS6, you can try the new inbuilt 3D Camera Tracker. It gives pretty good results.

Vishesh Arora
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[Stuart Samuels]

Hi.

Thanks for your suggestion but I’m still using 5.5 at the moment.

The Foundry 3D Tracker and Boujou both fail to recognise any usable track points on the camera at all. To me it seems like it should be relatively straightforward so I’m assuming it’s something I’m missing/doing wrong rather than the Foundry plug in or Bojou, or a problem with the footage itself.

Stuart

[Tom Daigon]

You dont want a camera tracker to track the front of the camera the talent is holding, you need a motion tracker like Mocha which is free in AE.

But you will need to learn how to use it. Its a powerful tool, but fairly complex.

https://www.imagineersystems.com/videos?tagFilter=All&sortBy=Oldest

You could try the regular tracker built into AE. That might be able to do it.

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[Stuart Samuels]

Ah ok, that makes sense.

The Foundry/Boujou for Match Move, Mocha for tracking an object etc.

I have tried Mocha but it didn’t get anything useable though…Back to the tutorials!

Thanks

Stuart

[Tom Daigon]

Once you get the basics of Mocha down, it should be an easy track.

I really think the regular Motion Tracker that has been a part of AE for many years would do a good job too.

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[Stuart Samuels]

Would the AE tracker be able to handle the perspective change?

Thanks again.

[Tom Daigon]

Yes with a 4 point track.

Mocha will probably be a better choice though now that I know you need perspective.

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[Stuart Samuels]

Thanks again for all the advice.

My only export options in Mocha are either Transform, which apparently doesn’t include perpective data and Corner Pin, which dosn’t seem like the righ thing to me…

I’ve attached 3 images below that should hopefully roughly demonstrate the type of thing I am trying to achieve.

Thanks!

[Vishesh Arora]

Thanks Tom for correcting me.

Stuart

In Mocha, if you go to Track panel(below your Viewer) , you will notice that there are option for Transform,Rotation, Scale, Shear and Perspective.

Click on the Export Tracking Data button and copy the data from clip board. Then just paste it to a solid or a null object in AE by pressing ” Cntl/Cmnd + V ”

Vishesh Arora
3D and Motion Graphics Artist
Films Rajendra

Blog:
https://digieffects.wordpress.com

Demo Reel(3D):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

[Tom Daigon]

You also need to DELETE the ANCHOR POINT keyframes when you are using transform to track an Object.

Because of what you want the text to do, this is a very advanced track.
Mocha is a planar tracker. You really need to track data from the right side plane and then the left side plane of the camera for the text to animate in the manner you illustrate.

Just tracking the front plane of the camera lens wont have it do what you want I think.

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