[Ashish Gupta]

Great Book David … Especially for beginners ..

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Ben Hartley,

i tried your footage and same result .. “Analysis solve failed”

i also tried precomping and masking the sky .. that didn’t work either .. i guess it’s an issue with your footage … it doesn’t have enough contrast or information that is required by 3d camera tracker to solve

Go through this thread, it will help answer some of your questions:

https://forums.adobe.com/message/4408136

Also there’s a useful tutorial about 3d camera tracking :

https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/studying-3d-camera-tracker/

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Paul,

i just tried it .. same problem happened ..

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Thomas,

Try this

Under the caps tab, check the constrain option to constrain edges ..

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Darby,

i just tried it .. Great tip .. thanks .. !!

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Eddie

Try this it creates a pretty good realistic ocean and its free too ..

https://www.valkaari.com/?cat=40

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Bruce,

I think its an issue of low RAM .. your cache is very heavy and system is running out of RAM .

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Frank ,

You can put a light inside the hole with negative intensity .. so that it negates the effect of light coming in the hole from scene …

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Josef ,

U have to precompose the ballet dancer layer along with the track ..

Displacement map doesnt take into account the animation done on the displacement map layer in the same comp it takes only alpha values from the map … so if u want to have an animated displacement map u have to precompose along with your animation in and in your case tracking…

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Hie Geoffrey,

“Clip one…Map grows from center (~.5 seconds)…breaks apart into regions which lift off screen and reveal clip two.”

I think for the separate regions lifting off the screen part to work the clip has to move with the mask path in z-space..

So you would be better off importing your clip in AE, and creating paths for different regions in which the USA map has to be broken.
Each path should be on a separated layer that will be a duplicated copy of the original footage layer and then animate those layers in Z-space to reveal the 2nd footage …

However as you mentioned that u already created masks for those regions you can copy and paste these masks on footage layers..