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Tracking in After Effects (AE)

Tracking in After Effects (AE)

of tracking motion in live action footage, and we're actually going to focus here in After Effects in this tutorial and we'll dig in deeper as we go throughout this chapter. In After Effects, you can track motion in five basic ways. We can track 2D position, we could also track 2.5D, what I call 2.5D tracking, which is also tracking scale and this is where we put the little magic ball in her hand, so we need to track this hand so that the magic ball will stay in her hand. So what I need to do is right click on this clip, go to track and stabilize, and choose track motion. At which point we get a motion tracker thingy here. And it actually has three elements, we have two outside rectangles, we have an outer rectangle, an inner rectangle, and a little plus sign, and what this is, the plus sign represents the actual tracking data point, this is where the tracking data will actually go. And then we also have the inside rectangle, which is the actual feature region, this is where we want…

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