Camera Tracking with Blender for Beginners! (VFX Tutorial)

Learn how to motion track any footage with Blender in order to place 3d elements into it. This tutorial is aimed at beginners so I explain everything step by step for you to follow along.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:15 Motion Tracking with Blender
12:55 Scene Setup
18:06 Lighting & Shading
23:06 Rendering & Compositing
27:14 Animation Rendering
28:11 Renderro Cloud Computer
28:50 Outro
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[@BlenderDaily]

Run into some issues tracking vertical footage? Here's the solution: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qabNoamOp92JadE

[@FriendIy_Person]

My monkey disappeared when I added hdr any solution?

[@threetwentyfirst]

fat respecto. very good tutor

[@ThePytercoyote]

Thank you Nick!! We will always learn something new from you! I'm putting this in practice looking forward to have a nice output or try until I get it right.

[@Jimzip]

This was a fantastic tutorial. All very clear and well thought out. Thank you!

[@fabricenorbert3987]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial ! It's easy to follow and your instructions are very clear.

[@quannguyen7016]

Finally a motion tracking tutorial I can actually understand and apply! Thanks a ton, my friend! This is rock!

[@partydogg0]

Lovely tutorial! Thank you so much! It is nice how you just show the whole thing and not skipping over little details or problems you run into along the way.

[@preethamitalopaul4381]

Out of all tutorials I’ve watched on blender motion tracking, this one is the best. Very detailed explanation and can follow very well step by step. Thank you for the efforts. Cheers

[@aryanprakash7371]

By Far, the most well explained, beginner friendly, to the point video, Thanks Mate!

[@paulettel9975]

Thank you so much. I got a lot from this video. This was very useful and you explained it in a way I could understand.

[@mehdibelhous9279]

Amazingly explained. You won't find a better blender motion tracking explainer video elsewhere!

[@aaronling1907]

Amazing Tutorial! You deserve every bit of praise!! Thank you.

[@divyamjha49]

By far, the most relevant Motion Tracking tutorial for Blender! Thank you, it was much needed!

[@BlenderDaily]

Very glad you think so! thanks!

[@cowboysfannv9418]

Thanks for the tutorial, really easy! Great video for me as a beginner to Motion Tracking! You earned my subscription!

[@TwilightCreatureStudios]

Out of all the tutorials I watched yours was the easiest and simplest to understand and you went into more depth of how it works and how you can adjust the points to your liking 10/10 Good Job

[@3D-Amir]

Great tutorial. Thanx mate. Hope to see more new tutorials from you soon

[@mayankkumarshaw635]

Amazing video tut, so easy to understand and follow🤩 Thanks💯

[@markmilorov5087]

Dude thank you so much. Despite the tutorial being a bit outdated I still managed to get an amazing result. For anyone that is stuck at the composition part, you don't need the denoise node anymore because the default denoising works just as well.

[@azizjonjuraev8151]

Best tutorial on tracking have ever seen! Thanks

[@BlenderFan]

Thanks for this very helpful tutorial and happy blending with blender.

[@weaponcode353]

I followed like 100 tutorials on youtube, and this is the only one that make all relevant things and more simple way I never saw, bless you my bro, this helped me so much

[@JorgeZac]

I love how and 29 min turns into a all night video...

[@Jezerypamela]

After watching many videos regarding this topic, this one takes the cake

[@architect1580]

excellent tutorial, a logical and simple process, thanks!

[@PDXDT]

Perfect. Exactly what I needed. Good work.

[@genofelice6034]

This was a great tutorial. Just starting out in Blender I find that I get lost on most tutorials because steps are skipped. This tutorial was easy to follow because every step was clearly explained. Great job !!

[@BlenderDaily]

nice to hear that, thanks!

[@justinmalone6406]

I had to stop 3 minutes in and say, thank you for doing a great tutorial. Thanks for assuming we don't know a bunch of things. I appreciate your speed and level of detail.

[@jmtm00]

Oh dear, its owesome tutorial, very clear. Thank you

[@HammerdownProtocol]

This was incredibly helpful. Thank you.

[@briansolomons744]

Wonderful tutorial. I acheived just the effect I wanted. Thank you very much.

[@de_adsmile204]

thanks so much for this informative tutorial, i've been looking for a video guilding me through tracking step by step. from Vietnam with love

[@sophiewestfahl4167]

This video saved me so many nerves! Thanks so much for the great work.

[@jbmegatron]

Yeah, that was rad. Thanks Nick!

[@CarlosX3D]

This is a great tutorial, very concise. Thankyou :-)

[@juanfxblender]

Finally I learned how to do camera tracking with Blender, now seems very easy, this is the best tutorial I ever found to learn how to use camera tracking, thanks!!!!

[@BlenderDaily]

very happy to hear that, thanks!

[@yourvfxhelper]

such a clean and helpful tutorial thank u ❤❤

[@varispekka]

just what I was searching, great!!!

[@3dvfxprofessor]

This is really a great and didactically well-done tutorial. I added this to my module briefing for my students. You forgot the camera lens distortion workflow. The tracker can solve the camera lens distortion and in your compositing, the "Undistortion" node will use the calculated data. You just need to add the node again at the end of the compositing tree and set it to "distort". This will distort the composed result back to the original plate and adds this distortion to your rendered layers.

[@faisalhijazy]

Man you must be really good at blender NICE!

[@dahlbergt]

Very, very well made! Thank you!!!

[@officialfadi]

Truly the clearest tracking tutorial! Thank you so much!

[@BlenderDaily]

thanks a lot Fadi!

[@officialfadi]

@@BlenderDaily gonna try and do it now thanks for the content!

[@RedzwanulHuq]

Thanks a lot. Would love to watch a similar video on compositing architectural building with drone footage.

[@ronskiuk]

Nice clear tutorial thanks!

[@gamesense4375]

BEST ONE SO FAR

[@smfknj6010]

Best motion tracking tutorial out there. Thanks (also love the instagram)

[@PerlaSaldivar]

This is just what I needed. Thank you so much!!

[@BlenderDaily]

awesome! glad I could help!

[@navidumardaraz7163]

Keep up the truly amazing work my friend. 😇

[@tekapurnadeem8240]

gnfd

[@flownbrollyproducciones]

Finally i got it, thanks a lot, greetings from Argentina !!

[@techuniverse6839]

Looking awesome thanks for the tutorial

[@HeaDrushTiger]

thank you for this excellent video! really helped me! :)

[@Born2BCoder]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks!!

[@stevenfilmco-8567]

Great VFX Lots of steps but worth it.

[@lightkeeper6768]

Awesome Tutorial !!! love it.

[@BlenderDaily]

glad you like it:)

[@wolfsami]

super clear tutorial

[@TheReimecker]

Wow this is a amazing. Thank you very much for this upload you change my future !!!!

[@lokeshideas4324]

Excellent explanation....

[@davsyl94]

Great tutorial! Thank you!

[@doc8724]

great tuto and well explained..!! :)

[@MrSiwat]

Yes, really helpful. Thanks so much.)

[@LateInscius]

this tutorial is really good thank you

[@nomadcaviare]

Thanks! Awesome tutorial!

[@BlenderDaily]

glad you like it!

[@fyona2000]

Amazing! Thanks!

[@totorocapo]

Wow man, fantastic

[@user-ud6nv2lk8d]

thank you for your sharing of knowledge much success to ya

[@BlenderDaily]

thanks!

[@RainySereneMoments]

amazing tutorial! thank you

[@enjoyenjoy5721]

very nice and great explained! Subscribtion earned!!!

[@mneha1987]

Da sött mer mal mit em Hochdruckräiniger drüber :) Näi Spass, super Video wi immer! Mach wiiter so Nik, merci für all dini Tutorials!

[@BlenderDaily]

besser ned, suscht gönd alli tracking points verlore;)

[@mneha1987]

@@BlenderDaily :D

[@Cr3reeper]

damn i feel so excited about having my first animation inside a video, its just wowww. just got a sub

[@Cr3reeper]

Bro liked his own comment 💀

[@BatouV-Maggle]

You are a master ! Thank you :)

[@BlenderDaily]

hey thanks!

[@techuniverse6839]

perfect brother keep it up

[@miruww]

amazing tutorial!

[@belaidt6801]

Awesome. Thanks

[@arman_mankotia]

I was not getting how to render then i saw this its awesome😂

[@sotal6009]

You are best 👌 Thanks alot bro

[@papermillgames]

WOW, thank you!

[@LegwanLegwanski]

Great explanations. I start with Blender week ago. Never editing videos. I made diffrent scene but yours explanations its perfect💚 Btw render time kill me 😂

[@lawmkimaralte2337]

Good job bro

[@claystudiofx]

Thanks man 👍

[@captainmelo8879]

amazing!!!

[@bluntmode704]

Wow, i made my first camera tracking video ... That's crazy... thx sir

[@amaljose6374]

Thanks a lot brother

[@petrosianus]

excellent!

[@brandonpachecoh]

Thank you 🔥

[@hafizmiau]

Thank you!!🤠

[@filmcast4]

You are good man

[@databus860]

thank you

[@ZeeshanAliLeo]

Please your tutorials are crisp and too the point. Please do use the Keyboard/Mouse button capture display in your production this will be very helpful. Love are respect from Pakistan!

[@Terminator-3096]

amazing

[@santoshgujar5237]

Thank you, Sir

[@cggirl7481]

Hi...Thanks...here is my first VFX try..

[@bhaskar4281]

Million Thanks...

[@radoslavl921]

You could've used one Blender feature called "set Y axis", when you tried to fix the perspective, instead of manually rotating the objects. Also you don't need to manually scale things down. You can set the scale using two points in the motion tracking settings.

[@neimaralvescarvalho]

RadoslavL. how that works? Your suggestion makes more sense.

[@KD-dr6be]

ayy tysm :)!!!

[@bidik781]

Thanks

[@dyst1575]

Longer tutorial available but also the better !

[@maxleosgamerzone6260]

Oh my goodness 🤗🤗🤗

[@asteriondaedalus6859]

This a great tutorial, thanks. I did try to copy all your steps as you had carried them out. I picked all the same tracking points, but got a little "twitch" in the motion at the start. The object rotates a few degrees from the starting orientation. Not a real problem, it stays put past that point. I did, originally, pick the 3 "floor" points in a different order than you did, and the "floor" ended up floating above the ground. I went back and selected the three "floor" points, in the same order you set them, and it came good. So the order you select the points seems to make a difference - a trick for new players LOL.

[@loriwebb4348]

great video! easy to follow you gained a sub! i did have one question, is there a way to remove the background video for rendering. I just want to render the model not the video in the background.

[@Dark0neone]

I got .08 solve error! That seems really good. Great tutorial!

[@BlenderDaily]

awesome!

[@neil3717]

Blender Daily: Does in 30min Me: Does in 3 days

[@MertBert]

4:27 You should never start at the start of a clip to motion track it, but at the middle tracking both forwards and backwards. This is true in most cases, as it leaves less room for a failed track

[@shanabenjamin8945]

Thank you

[@BlenderDaily]

thanks for watching!