Blender Motion Tracking Introduction | Add 3D elements to your Footage | Tutorial

[@guohengchin]

This is the best motion tracking tutorial I have watched so far. You managed to explain and demonstrate it in under 10 minutes, and you even included the files for us to try it ourselves! Thank you so much.

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thank for your very kind comment! Best of luck with your 3d work!

[@RyanBozo7]

@@twanoligschlaegerhow do you select multiple trackers at once when you where setting the floor it’s just selecting one PLZ HELP

[@doomsdaycookie7034]

@@RyanBozo7 shift click

[@timpong2393]

As a motion graphic designer for many years, I still inspire by you! Thanks Mate.

[@markhudson5825]

Thank you so much. Just what I was looking for!

[@twanoligschlaeger]

I'm happy to hear that my video helped you! Thank you so much for the donation, wow!

[@FLM-nn8ms]

That was so clear and easy to follow. You explain every step of the process, properly covering what the settings do instead of just hurriedly clicking on them. Thank you for this. Much appreciated.

[@alexdipaoli]

The first motion tracker TUTORIAL I have watched so far. Many people just show how "good" they are by doing and clicking fast. You are really teaching! Congratulations! 👏👏

[@gracesonfernandes6008]

you explain like blender guru in detail....i have seen other youtuber just explaining as if we know the particular feature already / or they talk really fast which is difficult to understand sometime....Thanks ,very good tutorial

[@sohanblues]

3 hours frustration solved....thanx buddy.

[@siripupriyan]

no motion blur straight to the point ... many don't say the reason why are they doing but you said ..... am so glad

[@DalvinHeyninck-o2x]

This video saved me so much for my exam assignment for VFX. I just couldn't get the motion tracking working; Thannks!

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Good luck with your exam!

[@StarliteOfficial-ee2rz]

Thank you! Easy, simple, effective! This isn't something I've ever done in almost 10 years doing Blender but I need it now. One thing I found a bit confusing was when you said the tracks "turn red" It's not the red trails, it's the red boxes. I spent like 20 minutes re-watching that part until it clicked, lol. Also, to get it to render or show in render view you have to enable film transparency. That's one thing you didn't mention.

[@JustWanderingAsIDo]

Great video, straight to the point, very clear, no nonsense, no stupid memes. Thank you!

[@gamershub2188]

Nice bro don't stop this channel ever you are awesome ❤

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thanks for the encouraging words dude!

[@АкимПанов-д1ж]

WHAT A WONDERFUL VIDEO!!! Thank you,keep it up! You are a wonderful teacher!))

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thank you very much for the kind comment! Best of luck with your 3D motion tracking!

[@Tomy_Yon]

This is my first motion tracking tutorial. 😊 (I subbed)

[@ones_flow5652]

Sir, this video didn't just help in some way. It's brilliant made! Thank you very much. I didn't expect something that clearly. - I hope it will work for me too. 🙂

[@RafaelRocha-AmplaMente]

Even though i'm not fluently in english (listening) i could understand you, perfect tutorial, thank you!

[@najiurrahman4657]

its a outstanding Motion Tracking workflow.

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thank you for your kind comment! Best of luck with your 3D motion tracking!

[@octodoodle]

Great tutorial mate, used it alongside a few others on how to do reflections, and jerry rigged some masks up + watery reflection catcher, made a tower on a lake shot. Your tutorial was the easiest to follow that I ended up needed. Really well put together Twan, thank you!!!

[@Trickmasters163]

After 10 bad tutorials i finaly maneged it to work!!

[@VTOGGD]

best tracking tutorial ever.

[@nkbabusbi9103]

Your explanation is excellent and easy to follow. Thanq for uploading this video.

[@mrtunlu8492]

watched over 10 tracking videos but only this video helped me to understand what i need to know, lol

[@KwameGyanko]

yeah this is why I track in after effects 😂. Good tutorial by the way

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thanks! Tracking in AfterEffect is indeed way easier. Recently found a free method of transferring the aftereffects tracking data into blender, thinking of making the next video about that ;)

[@KwameGyanko]

@@twanoligschlaeger yeah I have come across that free script as well. Can't wait for your tutorial!

[@animusvisual]

as soon as I hit the floor button my scene went somwhere. cant find my cube or floor anywhere. thoughts?

[@KevoStudio]

same for me

[@tobiasdemetz44]

hi thx for the video. I still have a problem. So, when i am at 6:40, then i can't chose eves or cycles. If i use that one, then everything except the 3d thing disappears!!! If i want to render it i also only see the 3d model and not the video :((

[@pbl9240]

i have the same problem, any solution??

[@rhomis]

At 4:54 after solving, I see no crosshairs in Blender 4.2 How do I enable those crosshairs to be seen? I saw them before in my previous projects, but not now.

[@polatkemalakyuz2021]

Quick tip was also very valuable, thanks for this video :)

[@michaellyrakisvamvoukakis4130]

Very nice easy to follow tutorial. Thank you.

[@oneartist3191]

THANKYOU SOO MUCH, It really helped me🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@CGI-Space]

Blender looks fun to track in. I have only ever used Boujou and Maya to get this stuff done.. Need to look more into Blender.. still more complicated than Boujou but i like that its an all-in-one package software.

[@linelevelmedia7357]

Fantastic tutorial, thanks so much for sharing it !

[@Setsu_Scans]

This is the best one , you also told how to clean hugh error tracks and make new ones too, which otger Dont tell

[@s.kounalakis]

I love this tutorial🔥

[@twanoligschlaeger]

thank you for the kind comment!

[@mintyfrfrfr]

tysm this is the best tutorial i could find.

[@karsteneckelt9641]

Ganz Wunderbar und viel Erfolg für ihre Ideen 👍

[@Corn_Pone_Flicks]

Okay, so here's one of many places I"m getting tripped up: how do I place the 3D object where I want it in the scene? When I add it in, it automatically goes into a certain spot and moves very nicely in tandem with the footage. When I try and move it to another spot, suddenly all the tracking is off and inaccurate. How can I keep the tracking on point but set the object where it needs to be? Also, my version (3.5) has no controls for the shadow catcher. I chalk that up to Blender's programmers being constitutionally incapable of leaving anything where it was in the previous version. I don't know if they realize how infuriating that rapidly gets.

[@twanoligschlaeger]

In the motion tracking workspace, after your track, did you press "set as background" and "setup tracking scene"? To use a shadow catcher (even in Blender 3.5) you'll need to make sure that you're in the cycles render engine.

[@Corn_Pone_Flicks]

@@twanoligschlaeger Yes. I did everything every tutorial says to do. After lots of fiddling, I got it to work, though regrettably I don't remember what exactly made the difference, which is unfortunate, since it's still not exactly where it should be altitude-wise, so I'll need to do it again. Thanks on the shadow catcher issue, though. Blender's programmers seem to love making things needlessly difficult.

[@FlyingBanana78]

​@Corn_Pone_Flicks if you really need precise positioning. You can add tracking markers as empties. Once that is done you can select the marker in the layout screen then press Shift S, select cursor to selected. That will place the cursor exactly where the marker is, then when you add anything to the scene it will be added at that position. Keep in mind that it's origin point is what gets centered with the 3d cursor so may have to move up or down but you will have a reference position of the 3d cursor.

[@addepadde6373]

for some reason when i add the plane and set as floor it is tracked, but at a totally wrong rotation. The y axis acts like the z axis, anyone know how to solve this?

[@AbdulAziz-cj4hg]

how do i make the ground transparent but capturing the shadow and the color bounce of my model, because in my video the floor is a little bit reflective (the shadow should be alittle bit red)

[@SirLithen]

look up "blender shadow catcher"

[@LightningLB007]

In future you should play with the alpha to get a more realistic looking shadow, but overall a very great tutorial :)

[@brofv4239]

10:49 Why i can't finish it until the video ends? The tracker detector stopped for only a few seconds

[@Trickmasters163]

4:55 what if you dont have a floor in like a drone shot in a city???

[@primaleoni4803]

hey, i have a question, when i insert an asset and go to camera view, why does the background only appear on the background plane, and the background becomes round, and is it normal for the camera to move even if there is no keyframe?, im having trouble determining the floor, origin, and the axis, thank u for the great video

[@h3r0nrcrds81]

thanks for this video, it fr works perfectly, keep doin tutorials please❤️

[@KeremDouglas-h2y]

I did it and I placed a block, but how do I adjust the color and texture of the block through the camera view without ruining anything?

[@Оскар-н1щ]

That is, in order to make a VFX video, I will need to output a render of sequence frames from Blender and then add these frames to the video by compositing?

[@ibrahimahmed3316]

whick key is pressed to select multi track point ?

[@BlenderGeek4196]

Awesome tutorial, but when I went to render, my background was just black and only my 3D objects were visible and not the footage. The file I'm using already had some compositing nodes setup. Also for some reason not all the tracking ported to the camera. About 3/4 the way it just stops tracking. I did track the entire footage but it didn't port to the camera.

[@jonsnow776]

can we motion track our own project which is already saved in pc????

[@addepadde6373]

yes, same formula:)

[@thatsreallyamoon]

I have a strange error. When tracking, it works perfectly, extremely low error and visually it matches PERFECTLY in the viewport. However, when i go to the CYCLES RENDER preview, it is extremely glitchy and my object in the scene jumps around as if poorly tracked. Reapeating: There is NO issue with the tracking, no issue with the viewport showing a great tracking with the object in it. HOWEVER, when I go to the CYCLES rendering preview, the track looks very bad. Any ideas?

[@rpgmakerbloodytutorials9486]

Any way to resize the 3 panels you used in the video mine are super small I can drag to the left but that just makes the options bigger which I can already see however the column options on the left are super small

[@FragOps]

how do I select multiple tracking markers

[@cocboss3329]

Wonderful tutorial

[@Synergy_V]

Is there a way to track VR360 video, so you can add objects into the scene?

[@republicofgamer8481]

I think i am late but i have an doubt if i need to add motion track from particular scene how to do it

[@genxgamerzz]

thanks bro this is the easy way to motion track

[@ckavvouras]

Great tutorial, thanks !

[@Blue_Bunny_Gamer]

can u slove my problem...my Problem is that my object and my floor is only able to render. I can't see the background in final render. What to do?

[@aranguez3d261]

Why do you add an object in cycles and you see the shadow without doing anything, but I create a sphere and it doesn't cast a shadow? I have done all the steps with Cycles and Shadow Catcher and it doesn't work... There is a jump when you go to Cycles and add the light that I can't understand.

[@Mrvlogger-r1n]

Can someone help me. When i render after all the headaches the real footage did not apear only 3d animation rendered. Please help

[@ishaanytuber]

Can anyone help me when I render my video the background video gets removed only the 3d model I's. Visible

[@saadnadaf8396]

Hello, very helpful video. I am facing a problem regarding in viewport shading mode. it does not show the video as background. Please help.

[@MAQUETTE3DSTUDIO-zk2tg]

Thank you Brother . very good video .

[@cubbyvideo]

I accidentally moved in the area of blender with where the objects are, the background went away and I have no reference now. Help?

[@lectiasio3225]

hey does someone know why i cant click on setup tracking scene?

[@Oussamaagmart]

hello please help once i switch to render viewport , the background disappears although it has 100% opacity

[@claragomes1660]

Amazing! But I still having problems when i Try to select 3 trackings as floor. My layout doesent shows the vertices and doesent matchs the scene. How can I solve this problem?

[@shakeelqaisar]

i dont know why your tracking prosece is not working in my PC but when I use geotracker its work.

[@RyanBozo7]

⁠how do you select multiple trackers at once when you where setting the floor it’s just selecting one PLZ HELP

[@twanoligschlaeger]

try holding shift while clicking on them. or just drag a selection box over them by holding left click

[@RyanBozo7]

@@twanoligschlaegernow it says it needs three tracks with bundles

[@Thatonedude_vr]

It’s good but when I render the background is not rendering

[@Flabycat]

why does nobody do this? its so simple the way this guy explains it

[@OurletBeurre]

my blender decide to not choosing points and when I create one try to track for 6 frames then nothing... Footage from FX3 in log and a NASA pc ......

[@DExiiProductions]

When i select the floor trackers it gives me flipped scene what to do

[@bram_gunst]

Good video man keep it up

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thank you for the kind comment! Best of luck with your 3D work!

[@namenotshown9277]

how to animate jaxxa lunar lander ( slim) using live data from the landing on moon? data x,y and z and roll rates ( as angular velocity) maybe 50 or so data points over last 50m descent

[@NinadBagwe]

wow. brilliant. it helped me soo much ❤❤❤

[@BEOLV30011]

I don't understand why every time you select the points for the floor it's very crooked or the camera is the one that gets twisted, I love to learn these things but it's very complicated

[@krakow-z-nieba]

Thank you very much for this material. I dream of making a 3D object in Reality Capture of the bridge model and then inserting it into the drone video where this bridge is to be built.

[@justinsjourney3224]

Great stuff. Thank you thank you!

[@bingbong_luver]

On the frame rate part, what about stop motion videos? Should it match the stop motion frame rate or the video file frame rate?

[@gnosjo]

I get that it's easier and more convenient to have sharp frames with minimal motion blur and perhaps deep depth of field. But what do you if you're doing vfx for an action motion picture? Shutter is 1/48s and dof can be very shallow. What to do? :)

[@NinadBagwe]

Namaste from India🙏🙏🙏

[@ismaelrojas9504]

Do you have a full course of blender? pls let me know, thanks

[@TheCrazySuperWeasel]

every time i try to orient the floor it says, "three tracks with bundles are needed to orient the floor"

[@mngentry]

Me too. Please help!

[@bazimvision]

thankyou it was very easy to understand

[@Glamiscoolest3]

render just shbowed my object on a gray blender plane, didnt show anything in the real-life scene.

[@Grenier_des_Joueurs]

Het is een goed tutorial, Ik hoop daar te komen met mijn videomontages ^_^

[@nickboyerfineart]

when pressing the frame track forward it just stops after a few frames

[@sadiaamir7517]

My setup tracking scene option isnt working

[@AbhishekSharma-fg1ho]

3.08 how to know that it's 10px or what ever value put there

[@FormerRope]

when i track the trackers they do not track until the end.\

[@vbalazs1937]

It was a wonderful tutorial but I can't see the background in viewport shading view anyone is able to help me?

[@AudreyGoncalves-]

How can I rotate my footage ? I mean, in my files it’s correct, but when I import to blender it’s in a wrong ratio can someone help me ?

[@twanoligschlaeger]

try adding a mapping+texture coordinate node in the shader editor to the texture node, maybe than you can rotate it?

[@TheRealDuckRBLX]

Hello, good video but when I render it I don't see the background video, only the object I created and the background is blank, IDK if that is ideal.

[@preetha698]

hey i can't select the 3 points of tracking how do you do?

[@preetha698]

I know! you have to select 3 tracker not too near and if you don't know how to select multi tracks tape B and oriented to do a recteganl

[@suleymanbayram1639]

@@preetha698 ı couldn't do that, can u help me bro?

[@DefinitelyNotStef]

How do you render the video footage? It doesn't seem to be doing that automatically

[@ovitunoda]

my scene is moving instead the camera "woops, fixed"

[@chidiebere2376]

the cause is that you did object tracking instead of camera tracking 😅

[@censair]

@@chidiebere2376💀

[@smillerhecker]

​@@chidiebere2376how to do object tracking

[@theappleman2741]

So stupid 😂😂😂😂

[@ovitunoda]

@@theappleman2741 yeah mr.know it all, but i'll no waste my time with "APPLE MAN"

[@LakshmiRaveendra-o5y]

The best tutotial i have seen , but how do you render your animation with your background video

[@mandyma1229]

Thankyou sooooo much😍😍😍

[@giovannimontagnana6262]

great job

[@tonybobbadman]

Doesnt the frame rate of the video say 25fps in the footage settings?