From the course: VFX Techniques: Crowd Replication with After Effects
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Looking closer at corner pin tracking - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: VFX Techniques: Crowd Replication with After Effects
Looking closer at corner pin tracking
We're going to continue to use Corner Pin Tracking to add another layer to this scene. And in fact, there's a perfect place for that. If you look closely at the podium, there are four tape marks here that form a nice rectangle, great place for this type of tracker. Let me show you what we're going to apply Tracking Data to. I'm going to go to File > Import file, and grab the Podium Logo which is in the Artwork Folder. Now even though this logo is very big, as you can see, as I drag it down, that's going to be bent until it fits in front of the podium through the tracking. I'm going to turn it off for now and go back to stabilize and add a new tracker, track motion. I want this tracker to be Perspective Corner Pin once again, so I get my four Track Points, I'll move those to the four corners of the podium. With my first getting a little bit closer, and start to position them, right looks pretty good, now we can analyze, and there's the motion path, so I'll quickly scrub through it…
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