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  • Tracking Problem

    Posted by Simon Roughan on March 30, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    MOO everyone,
    I am trying to track a smartphone screen, and replace it. I am using the perspective corner pin, and tracking the four corners.
    My problem is, in one shot, one of the corners goes off screen for a bit. I could track that corner manually for these 15 or so frames, but it seems to be impossible to move the bounding box off the screen.
    Is there a trick I’m missing?
    Thx in advance
    Simon

    You know I’m born to lose, and gambling is for fools, but that’s the way I like it, baby. I don’t want to live forever!

    Ross Shain replied 11 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Simon Roughan

    March 31, 2015 at 8:30 am

    Thanks for the reply Dave.
    It’s as I thought. Now I have to do a tutorial or two 🙂

    You know I’m born to lose, and gambling is for fools, but that’s the way I like it, baby. I don’t want to live forever!

  • Ross Shain

    April 2, 2015 at 4:42 pm

    I would recommend starting with these tutorials:
    https://www.imagineersystems.com/video/?tagFilter=mocha%20Fundamentals&&dd=dateOld&orderby=date&order=ASC

    • If the screen does not have many reflections, it can be as simple as drawing a shape around the entire screen.
    • Track.
    • Display the “surface” the blue rectangle that represents your track data and adjust it to where you want your insert.
    • Copy AE corner pin data to clipboard.
    • In AE paste the data to your insert layer.

    Ross Shain
    Imagineer Systems
    http://www.imagineersystems.com

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