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

In this follow along video we'll explore how you can Motion Track your footage in Blender. Download my free sample video here: ko-fi.com/s/a7ba49c7c9
I hope this tutorial helps you!
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[@guohengchin2351]

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!

[@Lilhoodbro2]

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

[@doomsdaycookie7034]

@@Lilhoodbro2 shift click

[@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.

[@timpong2393]

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

[@michaellyrakisvamvoukakis4130]

Very nice easy to follow tutorial. Thank you.

[@nkbabusbi9103]

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

[@RafaelRocha-AmplaMente]

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

[@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

[@deniscb8329]

Very simple and Easy great Job. One more thing guys shadow catcher option is visible only in cycles mode not evee

[@user-th2ii9xx1m]

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!

[@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!

[@mintygorillatag]

tysm this is the best tutorial i could find.

[@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!!!

[@Tomy_Yon]

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

[@sohanblues]

3 hours frustration solved....thanx buddy.

[@h3r0nrcrds81]

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

[@ckavvouras]

Great tutorial, thanks !

[@najiurrahman4657]

its a outstanding Motion Tracking workflow.

[@twanoligschlaeger]

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

[@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

[@NinadBagwe]

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

[@gamershub2188]

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

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thanks for the encouraging words dude!

[@cocboss3329]

Wonderful tutorial

[@justinsjourney3224]

Great stuff. Thank you thank you!

[@genxgamerzz]

thanks bro this is the easy way to motion track

[@karsteneckelt9641]

Ganz Wunderbar und viel Erfolg für ihre Ideen 👍

[@sopy-shorts]

thankyou it was very easy to understand

[@user-vr2iv8vi8r]

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

[@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"

[@user-xs6xm2kq5j]

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!

[@giovannimontagnana6262]

great job

[@user-bt3um6pj7x]

I love this tutorial🔥

[@twanoligschlaeger]

thank you for the kind comment!

[@LightningLB007]

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

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.

[@vpryt18]

It's a bit frustrating that such an `easy` scene with full of easy-to-track patterns, grids and dots, perfect rectangle shapes, etc. is so hard for Blender to track. You click so many buttons and adjust many parameters but it still can't track a single point from clip start to end. I think this is unacceptable for a pro software like this. I expected a better tracking performance.

[@sameh.blender]

very nice, thank you

[@user-ln4pm2vw7w]

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?

[@grygoriirudenchyk4603]

Thank you!

[@bram_gunst]

Good video man keep it up

[@twanoligschlaeger]

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

[@Arquitectura.en.3d]

Muchas gracias

[@samuelberhane-rz9in]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[@MuhammadHanif-np2lx]

It's very helpfull video❤❤

[@brandonpachecoh]

thank you 🔥

[@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!

[@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?

[@jitheshkuyyalil]

Wonderful! Thank you so much!

[@NeonLabsss]

super useful

[@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?

[@stefschoningh3542]

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

[@happy_bacon]

TYSM

[@CoolGorillaVR]

this is helpful (:

[@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

[@ibrahimahmed3316]

whick key is pressed to select multi track point ?

[@OfficialOnlyGT]

how do I select multiple tracking markers

[@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"

[@giuliacarrasi946]

Really good video and explanation!! I did the camera tracking by choosing the 8 markers manually, do you know why the angles of the background are a little rounded? Only by watching through the camera, during the motion tracking they are sharp. The error rate is 0.11pixels

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Thank you! I''m not sure what you mean with the angles being rounded?

[@autobr_]

@@twanoligschlaeger he's talking about the fisheye effect on your camera

[@nunusvenus7945]

same issue here

[@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?

[@seagull2171]

Can you make 1 more example object , not using flor but wall ?

[@tonybobbadman]

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

[@vbalazs1937]

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

[@NinadBagwe]

Namaste from India🙏🙏🙏

[@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??

[@brofv4239]

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

[@fldom4610]

why when i press "floor" it turns the whole bg gray?

[@jasmini1027]

can u do exactly this w geotracker

[@Thatonedude_vr]

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

[@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

[@jasterboost]

new subscriber =]

[@happy_bacon]

i have one problem when i render video is invisible

[@10MinuteEditing]

Everything is working well and the tutorial is very useful. But After rendering I can't see shadow

[@twanoligschlaeger]

did you add the shadow catcher plane + are you in cycles?

[@MarceloIsasmendi]

Good tutorial but I can't get the same result :(

[@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.

[@gabinkotarski787]

Why did you put 188 frame ?

[@Lilhoodbro2]

⁠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

[@Lilhoodbro2]

@@twanoligschlaegernow it says it needs three tracks with bundles

[@awis78]

How to I select floor?

[@bojoreal]

Super tutorial. I do have an issue. When I press play to preview the video and to check if everything is fine, I have 0.70-1 fps. I dont't understand why. I do have a 2070RTX graphic card and my computer can render quite high and complexe scenes. Anyone elese having this issue?

[@bojoreal]

Ok I found the reason why. I reduced the resolution of the video form 4k to HD 1920x1080 and it works perfectly. Yeah!

[@AbdulAziz-cj4hg]

i shot with my phone, how do i roate it sir?

[@Pufosul_Maro]

at 4:50 it dont work i select one and another deselect what i need tho do?

[@twanoligschlaeger]

hold shift while selecting multiple

[@PowersVideo3D]

Do you need a high shutterspeed? Can't you just have Blender add motion blur to your additional elements you're comping in? I know Marvel is still shooting with slow shutter/motion blur when they add digital extensions or cg characters.

[@twanoligschlaeger]

you need a highshutter speed otherwise your footage has motion blur and a video with motion blur isn't trackable. if you want to add motion blur after tracking in the edit, thats no problem.

[@PowersVideo3D]

@@twanoligschlaeger you can add motion blur to video that’s already shot?

[@twanoligschlaeger]

@@PowersVideo3D technically but it would be very tedious and im not too familiar with it

[@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?

[@davitpatsatsia6150]

Anyone, Why i cant click on ,,set up Scene" button? Thx.

[@blitzxedits7]

my screen keeps on flipping?? update: when ever I do the Floor thing using 3 trackers, my screen flips???

[@fnsantucci]

Eu tenho 3.0, posso fazê-lo?

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Yes. Sim👍

[@MossManOG]

what happens when the solve error is 23 pixels...

[@PawanSinghchamyal]

I'm from india Brother your way of explaining is very good and you are also very good looking

[@tobiasdemetz44]

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@neMuSori]

why are there no such great tutorials in Russian ❤ (I'm from Russia)

[@3D_mommy]

Всё и так понятно

[@rainyrobloxian-xt9cl]

I got solve error of 98px

[@allry_chxrry2228]

bro what if I use Eevee, because my computer is not capable :D

[@user-fh8wg2bm6w]

most motion tracking tutorial so~many talking ~ lalalalalalalalalalala ~ This tutoria is Bast~!!!

[@steamvfx4052]

Error1: canf solve camera motion Error 2: can't track floor

[@AmberSantana-is3dq]

I truly find this horrifying

[@rajendrameena150]

How to project the movie texture to plane ti use as bump map for realistic shadow... ?

[@ilyatopcat]

everything ended with the fact that I pressed prefetch and my laptop hung

[@twanoligschlaeger]

Are you still using an old version of Blender? I've seen a few people say that once they update they can press prefetch without the program crashing.

[@riturraj822]

This looks lot harder than After effects

[@twanoligschlaeger]

After effects is a lot easier yeah, its just a couple of buttons. But not everyone has AE unfortunately.

[@haikenstudio249]

you object is not tracked well why u show people that

[@MarcoCannilla88]

For principiant....................🤒

[@typingcat]

Why use a 4K footage for this beginner video. Most beginners won't have the hardware to work with Blender in 4K resolution.

[@NickProkhorenko]

Your motion traking will go down the drain if the camera looks not only at the object, try to turn away and everything will break.

[@xaralamposmaniada6009]

no good Motion Tracking

[@bobikpopik]

the robot is sliding on the surface. bad tracking.

[@TingunStudios]

Was your video high movement? If so, try to take a lower movement video and that should fix your issue😊

[@MDTamimIqbal-hl9ih]

I don't think that you have the ability to use blender

[@bobikpopik]

@@MDTamimIqbal-hl9ih it is the result that matters, not the program used

[@MDTamimIqbal-hl9ih]

@@bobikpopik do it yourself and then judge other's

[@bobikpopik]

@@MDTamimIqbal-hl9ih can you make TVs? If you buy a bad TV at the store, you have no right to judge that, because "do it yourself and then judge other's"