Tracking question – is image sequence better to track or .mov + mp4

[Claude Rozsa]

Hi Dave, I’m not I understand your explanation in the first sentence. I’m not a pro and use those programs as a hobby but try at least to learn to do it well.
What do you mean by “An image sequence is much better than the mp4”.

For instance I have the following shot: It is a long zoom from the middle of one of the streets of Pompeii. I intend to give the impression that the buildings on both sides of the street return to their original look before the Vesuvius eruption. For this I have still image (png) of the walls etc.My clip is a 20seconds mp4 with theses characterics:

Do you mean that I should transform the clip into a sequence of 500+ single images? How do you that? The question may look silly but I don’t know the way tot do it. Thanks

[Hanna Dean]

youtube after effects image sequence

[David Fleury]

It is a simple export setting from AE. Yes it will create 500 (x) images per frame so make sure you have them going to a folder and not to your desktop which I have done more than once 🙂

Then when you want to import the sequence into your editing program make you sure you have import image sequence box checked or you will only get one frame.

[Claude Rozsa]

thanks; I’ll try that