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Camera track a shot in 3D to match motion

Camera track a shot in 3D to match motion - After Effects Tutorial

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Camera track a shot in 3D to match motion

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The Camera Tracker is yet another very sophisticated tool that has been designed to be usable without any complicated setup. I can engage the Camera Tracker just by selecting the target layer and choosing Track Camera. However, I get an error. The issue is that there's timer mapping applied. Well, can you guess what the solution is? We're going to precomp. This time I'll right-click on the layer and just select Precompose right there. I'm going to leave all attributes here, that's time remapping is going to stay here. Now if I select this one and say track camera, we are off to the races. All the automation is being tracked here in the effect panel and you can see it's going through the shot. This will actually work in the background so I can go to other parts of the project or for For example, I could rename this layer Cove. I could go back into the project panel and rename the precomp Cove Pre, and move it in with my precomps here. And it's still analyzing. Let's see how it's doing.…

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