Tracking non video layer

[Keith Mcgregor]

“but the layer isn’t in the list of available layers to track,” I don’t know if that’s something new to cs6 or not but I don’t know what you are referring to here.

Just duplicate it so you keep the parenting and use the tracker, not the 3d camera tracker. Double click the layer to load it into the footage layer window and choose window/tracker and track that baby, away you go!
-Keith

Reality? What did you make it?

[Roger Burton]

Thanks Keith, well I’ve tried that – duplicated then gone to the tracker window and everything’s greyed out but there’s a “Motion Source” drop-down if I open it there’s a list of all my layers in the comp and they’re all greyed out (except a couple of pre-comps) but NOT my .psd layer that I’ve added the CC Sphere plugin to !

[Keith Mcgregor]

Oh, well just pre-render that layer with the sphere movement and use the qt movie to track. Solved!
Hope this helps.
-Keith

Reality? What did you make it?

[Roger Burton]

Yep, thanks Keith that was the conclusion I came to – which of course works but doesn’t allow for me updating things “live” without making a render but hey ho – a small price to pay for a good plugin.

Thanks for helping out.

Roger

[Roger Burton]

Splendid Dave, I’ll try that out … I had thought of doing the text – sort of – that way but didn’t like the distortion but the orient towards camera may sort that out.

Roger

[Tero Ahlfors]

https://library.creativecow.net/larsen_carl/child_tracking/1
https://library.creativecow.net/larsen_carl/child_tracking2/1