From the course: Cinema 4D R23 Essential Training: VFX
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What is motion tracking? - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D R23 Essential Training: VFX
What is motion tracking?
- [Instructor] What is motion tracking and why is it important? Whenever you want to place computer-generated graphics into a live-action sequence, you'll need to motion-track the footage. Motion tracking is simply about figuring out where the camera was and how it was moving when the shot was filmed, and that's why it's often referred to as match moving and also camera tracking, and throughout this course, I'll be interchanging those terms. Practically every VFX shot is motion-tracked these days, so not only is it a useful skill to master, it is also vitally important to solve a shot correctly in order to create a convincing composite. What are we aiming to match? We want to know the camera's position, orientation, and focal length, and we want to know the scale of the scene. Once you know how the real camera was moving, you can create a 3D representation of that camera, and so any elements that are to be placed into…
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