c4d tutorial - C4D Native Camera Tracking

[@cathychoi6959]

You are the only one who explained everything so clearly! appreciated your time so much!

[@jbmocean399]

Glad it was helpful!

[@peterpekelo3779]

Mr. JB is a genius in his own field, and a great human being too. Never will forget he helped me nan across a busy intersection once, she would have been late for lymphatic drainage

[@jbmocean399]

lymphatic drainage XD

[@henrikwolf]

Thank you very much! Finally someone who explains it properly.

[@jbmocean399]

Glad it helped!

[@hbekzod1349]

best tutorial on how motion tracking works, thank you)

[@kirmit207]

Hi mate! I was talking to you earlier on omegle and I took a screen shot of your KZbin name and said I would search it up later, that’s me! Great videos.

[@jbmocean399]

Hi Ben! thanks for reaching out!

[@fliptopjim]

How lovely to find this. I'm just starting to tinker with C4D from 20 years in AE so it's great to hear this very clearly explained from the point of view of someone who themselves has come from AE. And it looks almost simpler than the AE tracker too. Brilliant. Thank you for uploading.

[@jbmocean399]

Hey man, glad you found it useful and thanks for the comments!

[@RfoxDark]

Very understable . i like your way of teaching. Thanks

[@jbmocean399]

Great to hear that, thanks

[@terrancebaraketh3320]

Thank you so much, 😀U are a great teacher...

[@jbmocean399]

Thank you! 😃

[@Andrei_Zakharov]

Greatest lesson for tracking!

[@jbmocean399]

Thanks Andrei!

[@Betonbent]

Great video man, good sound quality👌

[@jbmocean399]

Thanks Sigge, I recently bought a new microphone so glad to hear it's doing it's job.

[@juku666]

Tracking points disappear when selecting constraint. Why?

[@DannyGameplayz]

really you solve my constraint issues thanks alot

[@sidx4446]

Do we need camera calibration in 3d tracking? If not then when it is used. I saw some people do in tutorials..im confused regarding it.

[@diego.c4d]

When I import the png sequence, the video is all messed up, I only see sections of the video, anybody know why?

[@jbmocean399]

This video might answer your question : kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHmZlKd6Z9efiM0 ( go to 2:50)

[@PANTRY3D]

@@jbmocean399 thanks man i really appriciate

[@ph4minhat]

Hey bro, very very nice tut for me, big thanks from me bro

[@jbmocean399]

Thanks for letting me know!!

[@moelectric]

Thanks! Do you know why my objects look narrowed while tracking a 9x16 footage? Thanks in advance!

[@christiankremer1382]

Such a great Video, was looking for a good tracking tutorial, thank you!

[@jbmocean399]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sergyxyz]

Your tutorials are great! Thanks!

[@jbmocean399]

Thank You!

[@genofelice6034]

Great tutorial but I get stuck at time code 14:42. Under the viewport you have buttons, Motion Tracker, Object Tracker, Full Solve, Create Position Constraint, etc. I have no such buttons. How do I turn them on. Thanks

[@jbmocean399]

Hi Geno, thanks... It could be that you haven't set your layout to Motion Tracker (top right)

[@genofelice6034]

@@jbmocean399 Thanks for responding. I have the layout set to Motion Tracking but I am using C4D R25. Everything is different. I suspect that is the issue.

[@jbmocean399]

@@genofelice6034 Hi Geno, that coud be it I'd say. You can always do a command search. Use Ctrl + C to bring it up

[@genofelice6034]

@@jbmocean399 Thanks. Apparently they change that also. Ctrl C didn't work but Shift C did. So your help put me on the right track.

[@garylockhart7112]

@@genofelice6034 If you turn off the "New Layouts" switch on the top right by left-clicking it and then left-click on "Track" in the layout menu you can switch to the old interface. Your buttons should now be on the bottom.

[@DonChups]

Thanks for this clear and useful explanation.

[@jbmocean399]

You're welcome man, and thanks for the comment

[@9892548945]

thank you for sharing your experience Sir.😇

[@jbmocean399]

Thanks for reaching out!

[@steventapia_motiondesigner]

Thank you for this! It was really easy to follow!

[@basifernandez]

Thanks a lot for the video. It's the first one I see using native tracking camera . I usually work with After Effects camera track, but the option of using manual track points is a good advantage to use cinema tracker. I don't know if in other kind of videos will work as good as with this footage . Thanks

[@jbmocean399]

Absolutely, I still use AE for tracking too. It depends on the footage and what I'm trying to do with it. AE is definitely a quicker way to go about it but sometimes you need to be a bit more specific with what you want to track and what you need to exlude.

[@simonDmotiondesign]

Hey, nice video!! I have a problem using the tracker. When 3d solving is completed, and I scrub through the timeline, the tracked points don't stay in place at the beginning, they move with the camera to a certain point and then later on they keep sticking to certain places. Do you know what to do there?

[@jbmocean399]

Hey Simon, Maybe just try tracking again, adding more auto tracks might help.... It's dependant on the ffotage you are using. If it keeps failing in c4d you could always give it a go in After Effects.

[@yinon_tal]

Man Thank you very much! Very Useful tutorial!

[@Andrei_Zakharov]

I don't have tracker view window how do I enable it?

[@jbmocean399]

You might have to set one up

[@yewsoonfatt]

hi, do you know where is the create position constraint in C4D 2025? i cant find it

[@jbmocean399]

Check the track menu at the top of the UI

[@MRasey22]

Nicely made

[@Ra00Da]

Thanks for this tutorial! It was really good and easy to learn about tracking.

[@jbmocean399]

Glad it helped!

[@taj1]

Hi, nice tutorial. I was woundering if you could help me understand what it mean when a 3d solves only completes half of the footage and the only message I have in the bottome left is "Deffered Solve Finished" Footage settings has the correct start and end frame. frame rate settings match the footage. I've tried tracking with tiff and jpeg image sequence. I've tried using a full solve and the 2D tracking method. C4dD R25 Regards. Taj

[@jahanzabahmed3896]

How to export the tracking data to After Effects?

[@jbmocean399]

You can bring the C4D camera into AE if you have the cineware plug-in for AE, which you possibly already have

[@claytondouglas1]

Getting stuck....at creating position constraint ....I run though all the steps, but create position constraint is grayed out. New to C4D and trying to teach my self, thanks in advacne

[@jbmocean399]

Have you selected the Motion Tracker Object in the object manager?

[@KosSedakoff]

The lesson is cool indeed / How to rotate all this things a bit?

[@jbmocean399]

Stick everything you want to rotate into a Null and rotate the null

[@yeskaa13]

how do you delete a track point after selecting it

[@jbmocean399]

Should be able to just hit the delete key on your keyboard... If it's not working for some reason try deselcting your Motion Tracker object in the object manager and then try again.

[@fluxstandard8364]

nice to see you are still making videos for this

[@jbmocean399]

More to come!

[@fluxstandard8364]

@@jbmocean399 great stuff

[@mevsimpossible2]

Words can't thank you enough

[@jbmocean399]

Glad it helped! Comments / Words are much appreciated :)

[@dwei24]

very helpful, thanks for sharing

[@rastiazad]

So clear now, thanks.

[@jbmocean399]

Glad it helped!

[@juanjm12]

When I create a user track, I don't get that little preview window on my screen, do you have any tips on that? I'm using r25 edit, ok nevermind i figured it out :) there's the objects tab and the track view tab which is the zoomed in screen i'm talking about

[@jbmocean399]

Glad you got it sorted

[@saiboredoodles]

Hi, thanks for this great tutorial! I enjoyed it. I'm just learning c4D recently and in line with this great tutorial, can I ask if this camera tracking data can be imported into after effects? Thanks!

[@jbmocean399]

Hi Mae, I'm not sure about the track points but you can bring the camera into AE. Just import the c4d file into AE, place it into a composition and use cineware to extract the camera.

[@stefanleithner6922]

is png sequence better than jpeg sequence? does it make a diffrnece? I'm motion tracking right now with a .mov file, and notice it takes very long. next time will do it with an img sequence.

[@jbmocean399]

The difference between the two is that jpeg uses a lossy compression and png uses lossless compression

[@stefanleithner6922]

@@jbmocean399 allright, and which of the two is rendered faster in cinema 4d?

[@jbmocean399]

@@stefanleithner6922 Never thought about that actually, I'd imagine the difference is negligable but you could test it out with some random frame/project to see... I've never rendered a jpeg sequence so can only guess

[@stefanleithner6922]

@@jbmocean399 Allright, if I'll test it, I will tell you. Right now my computer is busy rendering the clip that I made with your tutorial and a jpeg sequence :D You know, I used to do motion tracking with boujou, many years back, but boujou doesnt seem to be supported in the new versions of cinema 4d, so I discovered this tutorial as an alternative, what a great tool and I've never seen it inside cinema 4d LOL. thanks for the tutorial!

[@stefanleithner6922]

hey how do I get the sam effect, we get with the floor, but with a plane? I want the shadows to reflect, but dont want the plane to be seen by the camera? seems not to work, I clicked on compositng background. any idea? :)

[@luiszarzoza3762]

thank you for tutorial

[@dmellis]

Issue 1: There should be a way to use automatic tracks as well as manual tracks before you create the 3D Solve. It seems wrong to force you to commit to all three being one or the other. Issue 2: When I ran the 3D Solver it ignored my first manual track, so it wasn't in the User Features folder with the other manual track points. The second attempt to create that manual track point worked. Issue 3: Adjusting the position of User Features after they drift will sometimes automatically start the whole track to recalibrate. Other times it won't do anything and force you to recreate the track point. Issue 4: Sometimes when you switch to the 3D Solve tab the Run 3D Solver button is greyed out. If you decided to use manual track points you'll still need to track the whole video clip because you need a minimum of 8 track points before C4D will let you Run 3D Solver. Issue 5: The result with my footage was unusable. The plane didn't even turn the way my track points should have made it. Overall, I'm sure this works great with perfect footage like sunny day drone footage with smooth movement but in most real world situations, this will fail.

[@drne6244]

thank you