[Ewan Maccormick]

Hi Chris,

Thanks so much for this. The workflow looks pretty tight, similar to what I was doing, but will definitely switch to Illustrator rather than PS.

The tutorial helped too. Have never heard of Mocha, I always assumed that the 3D camera tracker was the one to go for, so thanks for this.

Now I delve into the project!

[Ewan Maccormick]

I have messed around and totally by accident found the simplest workaround.

You click layer and then layer style>drop shadow when on the solid layer. I was about to solve it another way, but this just happened by lucky accident.

I have had a weekend of After Effects learning and when you solve things (even with help from you guys on my other post) it is a wonderful feeling.

I think I may be addicted.

[Ewan Maccormick]

Hi Kalle,

Thank you so much. It was the anchor points that I wasnt getting. I was chasing the elements all over the screen and trying to tie them up, but instead I discovered pre-comping and even then I couldnt work it and then your response came in and boom, it all worked perfectly.

You are a gent, many thanks.

[Ewan Maccormick]

At first I was creating a null and camera and then parenting the layer to the null using the lasso. When I try to parent the second layer to the null it doesn’t take on the properties ie it still moves across the screen instead of staying still.

Then I discovered that you could create multiple nulls and I tried this. But again I got the first element (an imported png of the map marker) to stick to null one, but then the second ( a shape layer) would not stick to any of the nulls.

I don’t know if there is a particular order of doing things that I am missing, but I am creating all of the layers on the video layer, then running the camera tracker then trying to lasso them.

[Ewan Maccormick]

Thanks for this, but I have adjusted this on the settings but am getting a poor quality end product. Is there anything I can do to get a better quality film with these dimensions?

[Ewan Maccormick]

Peter you are an absolute gent. I thank you and I think you may have saved me countless hours of frustration.

[Ewan Maccormick]

Thanks so much guys. I thought it might be a case of using After Effects.

I have been putting off downloading the trial as I know that I will want it at the end of it and cant really afford the monthly fee!

Cheers again.

[Ewan Maccormick]

Outstanding thanks. Watched the first minute of the vid while chasing children round my house so look forward to seeing it all and nailing this effect. Thanks so much it’s a great help.

[Ewan Maccormick]

Thanks so much guys. A really great help. I will head over to the Motion tutorials now and have a look for stephens stuff.

Cheers again for taking the time to respond.

Ewan