3D Camera Tracking in After Effects- recreate famous movie scenes

3D Camera Tracking in After Effects- recreate famous movie scenes
With this easy after effects tutorial you will learn all the basics of a 3d camera track / tracking in After Effects with the built in "3d camera tracker"
Learn how to set up a scene, apply the effect and work with it.
Learn how to improve the results within the 3d camera tracker and how to create reference null / nulls and a reference solid with a grid layer effect applied.
You will also learn how to create a 3d camera and how to import 2D as well as 3D objects into your seen.
Learn how to finalize your shot with motion blur and also learn some handy tips and tricks on how to customize your motion blur.
As an extra step you will learn how to easily set up lights (point lights) to give it a realistic look and I will guide you through the process of animation depth of field in two different ways.
The first way is to set up depth of field within the camera settings. Turn on depth of field and adjust the focus distance as well as the aperture and the blur level.
As a second step I will show you in an easy way how to apply and animate depth of field with the effect "camera lens blur".
Learn how to recreate famous movie scenes as well as music video effects and video intros.
We will recreate the hallway with pumpkins and fire to make it look like in Harry Potter. We are going to recreate the Intro from "13 reasons why" by adding polaroids in 3d space to our scene.
And we are going to bring it one step further and bring in real 3d objects (obj) with the plugin from videocopilot element 3d which is perfect for that job.
With Element 3D we are goint to take a look at the music video from Eminem Godzilla and we are recreating 3d knifes that are floating in the air like in refrain scenes of eminem s music video.
You will also learn about setting up compositions in After Effects, the 3D space, the grid effect and detail effects that make a shot look realistic, like light, motion blur and depth of field.
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hey, thanks for the feedback!!

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@@thevijayraj34 No. It's effect in After Effects. Watch the video.

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Question. where do you put the packs in the Ae folder for 3d element?

[@flo.motion]

hey, super easy: ...\Documents\VideoCopilot\Models

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@@flo.motion whenever I used the element 3d it showed the models being all black no matter what I do so I had to move to cinema 4d

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Thanks for watching!!

[@williamcousert]

I recently purchased an Insta360 One X2 camera. Does this technique work with 360 degree video? If so, do I need third party plug-ins?

[@flo.motion]

Hey, that is a great question! I have not tried this out before! I believe you can track 3d Footage with mocha!

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Hey Flo! Great tutorial as always. Can I export a camera track and take it into Houdini? thanks!

[@flo.motion]

never done that before, but as it works for AE and Cinema4d, I guess you could extract the camera in one of those programs and it should work just fine!

[@DotAndDab]

Can you tell me the basics of the start of the video where you just drop into the editor from the video.. i know its simple but id like to understand how you did it 👍

[@flo.motion]

you mean when I zoom into after effects? Well I have the screen recorded and have the video within the screen at the place where it should be in the After Effects window. Then i simply parent the recording to the video and scale the video up to be full screen! Now i can play it in fullscreen and when i keyframe the video to become smaller the AE window appears! Does that make sense?

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[@Greybow864]

Its good but how to do the same with grabbing an floating photo and move it to camera to transition?

[@flo.motion]

Hey, whenever you want to achieve a practical interaction, you need to do it for real. Either you have the photo hanging on a string and paint out the string, or you have "something" with tracking markers, where you can attach the photo to later on. BUT you have to have something already in the shot that you can physically touch!

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Better?? Different!!

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Haha as you want diff different 🙌🏼

[@SitinprettyProductions]

Hi, thanks for this great tutorial. May I ask why you copied and pasted the position points instead of pick whipping them to the null / does whipping them to the null do the same thing?

[@flo.motion]

Pigwhipping them should do the same thing! And you can easily reposition later, which is not that easy when you have to move many keyframes at once!

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Does this work with the new 3d objects update?

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[@MRKHAN-to9yk]

Hey, I am trying to use "Track Camera" in After Effects 2021, It's showing 'Analyasis Solve Failed', Help me please. I am not doing anything else. I just drag the clip, open tracker and hit Track Camera, after like 5 minutes or so, it shows the Analysis Solve Failed. I am new to After Effects, I don't know anything about it. PLEASE HELP ME!

[@flo.motion]

Hey! What kind of shot are you trying to 3d track? For the After Effects tracker you need to be aware of two things: first, you need to have some parallax within the shot, so the tracker can guess or calculate some depth information. And second, it is best to have as less as possible movement within the shot. SO you can move the camera, but no moving people or cars within the shot. Having that said there are four ways to get your track to work! 1. Try detailed analysis! 2. Of there is something moving within the shot, roto it out first. 3. If you don't have enough parallax in the shot, so maybe a nodal shot, there is an option for a nodal solution! 4. Go through the tracked shot and remove all tracking markers(colored crosses) that seem to be wrong! Let me know if that helped!!

[@MRKHAN-to9yk]

@@flo.motion bro same shot working in 2020 but in 2021 not working

[@FilipoLipos]

I love it can you use video instead of pictures? as well?

[@flo.motion]

yes you can! also in element3d you are able to do so!!

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좋은 영상입니다

[@flo.motion]

감사합니다!

[@jadorn]

Love your tut and subscribed! I am trying to follow step by step in my own project and I keep losing view of second layer (the equivalent of the postcard in your example) after I create the solid and camera on the three track points. It just disappears. If I take 3D off it comes back. But it needs to be 3D so that doesn’t help. 2-view shows a huge cluster way off camera and I figure that’s why i lose the view but I don’t know how to get it back. Thank you for help!

[@flo.motion]

Hey, looks like its 3D position is simply outside of your viewport! Try to zoom out. Or create a null object out of a tracking marker (right click on it) and paste that position onto your layer! Let me know if that solves the issue!!

[@jadorn]

@@flo.motion Thank you for such a quick reply! That was correct, and I was able to locate it. I'm wondering why the layer is moving so far off camera when I copy/paste a tracking marker's position?

[@guillermovaccarezza7105]

Thanks for the tut! I have a question, what happens when there is a moving object like a person in the shot? because in my case the 3D camera tracker is basically tracking the person and leaving BG tracking points un-analized

[@drefanzor]

Draw a rough mask around your moving subject and set the mask to subtract. Retrack the camera and it'll ignore everything inside the subtract mask.

[@guillermovaccarezza7105]

@@drefanzor wonderful!! Thanks a lot for the tip

[@flo.motion]

Hey! Another thing you can do is to skip through the video, when the tracking is done, and delete the markers (colored crosses) that appear on the moving object! In the "advanced" tab you can even choose, that they will be deleted throughout the whole clip! after that it will re analyze automatically! And you can select multiple crosses at once with the lasso tool (it will be the lasso tool by default)