Motion Tracking, Multiple Point Tracker and 3D Camera Tracker with Adobe After Effect

1. Intro: Hello, My name is Andrea, every visual designer, one of the two founding partners of the common of advertising agency based in Milan, Italy. This course aim to teach students the fundamental tool to work professionally on Adobe After Effects software. They will perfectly learn how to work with motion tracking, tracking a moving subject with different technique, trucking one more point of your video and using 3D camera tracking. Tracking is in fact among one of the fundamental and you mentioned technique for those who work with after the fact and the East tutorial. Each part of the project will be explained in detail to allow the students to learn the technique. I create these course based of May 14 years of teaching experience in leading international graphic design and fish at university. For with this course, you will be able to create a graphic text animation that truck, a moving subject with one or more point into truck and movement using a professional tree planting cover. These will allow you to create captivation I mentioned for the title of your video from a promo video, or to make your project more impactful and dynamic. What a waiting for, Let's begin. 2. First technique motion tracking adobe after effect: Welcome to this new tutorial and thank you for choosing this class. Today we are going to speak about a new feature of After Effects, which is that tracking. Especially we are going to focus our surfing two way of tracking. We are going to tracking the single object, moving to the footage. And we're going to use the 3D camera tracker. Let's start seeing some example. This is the tracking with an object. So we are using the tracker to track the movement of the camera and insert that text truck over eight that moves together with the van. In this case. The texts follow the car moving through the footage. Thanks to the tracking movement. In this case, we are using the 3D camera tracker. So the software analyze the footage and render it. Creating a 3D camera. And then a 3D object, like our texts follow, and it's visualized through the camera. Exactly like that. Let's now discovers step-by-step. Each one of these technique last star together. First of all, I create a new composition, isotopic composition, choosing the preset HDTV 720, with a width one hundred, ten hundred eighty and high 720. The frame rate is up to you. In this case, the preset proposed me 25, which is okay for me. Then I import them for it file import file. The footage I would like to use. In this case, I would like to use this footage. I drag it on the timeline. In case the footage is bigger, I can adapt to the composition. In case I would like to have the same size of my footage. I have to drag the footage in the composition option so that it fits perfectly with the window on the main menu. I open that tracker palette, which is here on the right. And I select the track motion instead of the other tree. I have four options. Tracking the camera, Warp, Stabilizer, truck motion, and stabilize motion. Let's select Track Motion. The video, it's pretty long. So just to show you how these work, I'm going to select just the first 1 second in the Gulf of video. Let's do almost two seconds enough. It's fine. I cut it with a set out so that just these 2 second engulf, it would be the video that I will work with with, uh, truck motion selected. I have to choose between tracking the position, tracking the scale, tracking the rotation. In this case, I'm tracking the position because the movement is pretty simple. Here. I have a truck point, which I can select it just dragging over it. I move it with my keyboard coarser. And I choose a point on my video, which is having a good focus, so nobler, a good contrast. And it's always present on my video. And then I adjust my tracking point so that it fits perfectly with the object. I think in this case, this is a perfect object to truck. The next step is to move to the main menu Layer, New, to create a new object, which will be our tracker layer. To give the name, I have to press on the text. And and I call it throttled layer. Then I have to start doing the tracking. I check if my truck point, if I move my cursor, the vertical course in the beginning of the video is still on the position. If not, I setup again the truck points so that I can start from 0 and I press on, play, Analyze forward. He start analyzing and rendering. And this is the animation I get. After that. I have to press on the bottom 80 Target because I want to associate to my animation D layer I create before we then null object called tracker layer. Exactly this. I confirm. And I apply what I did. He asked me if I want to apply the dimension with the x and y axis, which is okay, I can confirm it. And I have under my video the tracking point and emission which is fully recorded. Now I have just to include the element I want to add to these tracking. For example, at texts and animation, a picture, a logo that I previously created, an illustrator for example. For now, it's enough to have just a text. Let's call truck. If you want to set up the character, you can choose the font. In this case, I'm using Kaltura bold and the size and the color. I position the text over the van in aside. And do let the text moving together with a truck layer. In the layer palette. Every single layer has this parent beak. If it's not visible in your, you have to go on the corner laughter and expand your layer palette until it's visible, the parent layer. So I connect the truck texts with a tracker layer like this, with a parent pick whip. Now when I play, the van is moving and also my text is moving together with this. If I want to have my tax that blends together with a major, can also add with the blending mode. Enlightened blending, or an overlay branding so that it takes the same color of the fun is the result. 3. Second technique motion tracking adobe after effect: The second example I want to give you is with another video which I imported. The video I'm going to use is this. I drag it on the composition so that it fit perfectly on my screen. I choose one part of the video. So double-click. Let's take the first 1 second of video. Second number 1. I crop it with a set out button. And I close the layer so I go back on the composition. So this is my one means 1 second video. I opened the trucker layer, the trucker palette from the main menu, windows trucker. I have it on the right track or palette. I have to click on Track Motion. And in this case I want to track the position, but also the scale. So I have two tracking points instead of one. I selected the first track point, and I move it in a place where I have the maximum contrast. So I increase the sides and I prepare it. So they did fit perfectly with my object. Let's do it in the beginning of the video. So someday like that is a bit more up. A little bit more up. Okay. I think now it's working. Let's move also the tracking point number 2. Okay. Let's enlarge it. So they did fit perfectly with my sides. Let's check it again. So this goes a little bit, little bit. Okay. Here we are. Now. We have to set up the targets. So again, we have to create the new object with layer, new null object. We call these layers so we position our cursor on the name and the layer. And we said that the target with the structural layer. Okay, we played the Analyze forward so that his start analyzing our video. We have always to check if it's following correctly our tracking point or not. It takes time, of course, because it's analyzing two tracking points instead of just one. Always be sure that this keeping the tracking, if not, we can click on this icon and we can set up and that just the truck point recording. Frame-by-frame. We almost complete view. Second mark. Here. We are. Now. We have to create the object we would like to have for the tracking, for example, a text or a logo type. In this case, I create just a text frame. I choose character with black color. So it's feasible for Tura bond. So flocking with black color. Okay? Or clock. I position the object, for example, in front of the car or just in a side like that. And I connect with the parent pq together with a tracker layer. And this is the tracking with two-point position and scale. Okay, so it's following perfectly the car. 4. Third technique motion tracking adobe after effect: The third exercise, we're going to use the 3D camera tracker. So to do that, I import a new video file, video, and this is the video I'm going to use. So this is a person running. And this is how the video is. So as you can see, he's running, but we are not going to follow Him. We are going to follow the camera. To do that. First, I have to apply the effect, which is called 3D camera tracker. We drag it over the video, but instead, delete is very long. We have first to cut the video. So let's make this video five seconds long. It's enough. Let's do also a little bit less. 3 second, It's okay. I cut it with a crop set out and I drag the layer, the effect over the layer 3D camera tracker. He's analyzing. And here on the left side of your interface, you have the effect. You have the specific of the effect. And the setting. We have also the timing. So now it's starting to analyze. So as you can see, here, we have 80 percent, 10 percent, and now it's giving us the remaining time, so it's Miss around 30 second. Let's wait. I remind you that everything gets here. It's also under the layer. You have in your layers palette. It's myths around the 15 seconds. So let's finish to analyze one. He will finish to analyze. They create camera button. It will be active and we can add a 3D camera tracker. So you just finished to analyze it. In a couple of seconds, I can activate the Create camera button. I press on it create camera, and I get a new 3D tracker camera. Now I am ready, as you can see from here. My video, It's full. It's rocket with this little element which is called target sites. And I can also or truck point sides, I can also increase the size and this is for a truck it so this is the area where I want to work. I include a text example, my title, which I'm moving on top like this. Consider that the camera is in 3D. Every time you are working with a 3D object, you have to remember that the layer should be transformed it into 3D. So you have to click on this cube icon if you don't have it, remember first to enlarge your palette. Your layer palette from here on the corner left. So now the texts follow the movement of the camera. As you can see, he follows the music, the movement of the camera. Of course, you can add other objects and they will all follow this. For example, I can add another text, my title. And this I move it in this side and title. I move it under like this with a different font sides. So that is so that it's a little bit more interesting also with the in term of typography. So my title goes here. They both 3D layer, so they both move together with their animation. And it's it. So I hope you liked this tutorial. And if you want to discover more tutorial about professional post-production in After Effects, professional post-production in Photoshop, please follow my page on my profile, then. Q and if you want public, your project under the section project, All the best.