Cinema 4D: The Motion Tracker

[@boredspaghettisquid6050]

Digital meat, I have to tell you something. YOU ARE THE BEST

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Awesome, thanks

[@noelgustav]

For all those new to c4d like me who came here to find out why their tracking points aren't visible like i did...later i got a solution by simply switching on 2D tracks (i used 2D tracking option in R20 along with this tutorial and search for answers on web but didn't get solution and trainer seems not to "tip" us on that) ...2D tracks button appears similar to full solve button, after pressing "< auto track >" and then you find out you can't see any point, go ahead and press that button, usually in R20 (under motion tracker work-space) it sits below "tracker view" Thanks for your tutorial!

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Cheers buddy, glad you got to the bottom of your problem :)

[@motwanitvandroid2049]

Hey. Seriously. Thank you. I just downloaded soft and I can CLEARLY see why your vid was recomnded. You're an aweso intro into

[@NERV0USMONKEYS]

THE BEST TUTORIAL ABOUT C4D TRAKING

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Thank you! If you like my content please consider supporting my channel at Patreon :)

[@thatsme5996]

thanks, you deserve more than this, you're so underrated. your video is actually what i've been looking for

[@bricegordon64]

2 minutes and already earned that like button. solved my issue and included a link to take it further. Bravo sir

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Cheers buddy! Please Subscribe :D

[@bricegordon64]

+DIGITAL MEAT just did. What country are you working from if you don't mind me asking? I kept watching and couldn't help but picture a bad guy from a die hard movie or something... Like yes sir I will put that displacement map on there please don't hurt my family lol

[@bricegordon64]

Worked with mocha for years but liking this for work flow. I kept getting an issue where as soon as I hit render it wouldn't miss misalign the video skewing the models position on the footage

[@PriscillaGomez]

Excellent walkthrough!♥️

[@physicalchemistry9364]

Cheers! Nicely done Sir... I liked your pace, your explanations, your workflow... I will be walking through this tomorrow, but was impressed enough to comment. I will be checking out more of your tutorials.

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+PhysicalChemistry - excellent! glad you liked it, thanks for the feedback.

[@spazzimcgee]

Best tutorial, man. Thanks!

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Thanks very much!

[@thisisacat2825]

wow thank you so much. no joke it is now so much easier and u explained it really good.

[@franciscalopezr.8584]

Very nice explanatory video!

[@WyattCayer]

this was fantastic, you should make another tutorial on how to export just the object and shadow elements.

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Yes, that might be a good idea, if you want to export just the object and shadows you can do that by using the object buffer and the Multipass in the render settings.

[@ederthalfonsogarciaaragon9995]

It’s okay to feel that why. I felt like that sowhat at the beginning. Just use the love you have for making soft to overpower that feeling

[@IncredibleraysFX]

surely deserves a thumbs up :) tysm :D

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+Amy Amit - thanks anything you want me to cover?

[@IncredibleraysFX]

lightning a scene in c4d without using any external hdri image (just by c4d native/built-in lights) for nice reflections

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+Amy Amit - nice idea, i'll see what i can rustle up :D

[@morote123]

thank you for making this video

[@RhysObasi]

Just what I was after, thank you!

[@CsokaErno]

This is the best motion tracker tutorial on KZbin. Thank you. Nevertheless I have a problem. I can"t glue my object to the background, it's moving, slipping. How can I fix it? What is the problem? Another question: when I try to put an object onto a flat place I can't get proper amount of tracking point. How can I increase them? Or what am I supposed to do? Thank you for response. Do you have a manual tracking tutorial? There is nothing on the internet.

[@viktorodman2121]

Love your tutorials! Keep it up!

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Thanks :D

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Very nice, well done man :D

[@franciscohernandez2335]

Excellent Tutorial, you got a new subscriber

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+Francisco Hernandez - yay! cheers

[@foreverninio]

Great tutorial! Thanks!!

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Cheers! Please sub :D

[@Ameerhamzaminhas]

you are amazing ive been looking for this

[@K4N4V]

Excellent video

[@Rudy260]

where I’d record one track of the soft and than use a second Edison to record scrubbing through the soft to mimic a wave table.

[@uralkocak]

Thank you very very very much.

[@TheSAlternativa]

Great tutorial man! Do you know how to composite the GI pass on After effects? Been trying to figure that out

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+Sociedad Alternativa - yes, you can render out of cinema 4d as a Multi-pass, so you can render out your GI, Reflection, colour, etc . . . . as separate passes. If you don't know how to mix these passes in After Effects (ie, Multiply, add, overlay) don't worry, in your render settings under Save, there is a section called Compositing Project File, click the save check box, and under target application choose after effects, then click Save Project File. Cinema 4d will create an After Effects file that will already be set up with your multi-passes in the correct order and the correct blending modes :D

[@TheSAlternativa]

Thank you! Will definitely try that out. Please keep sharing your awesome work. :)

[@novelalexpart2]

Sociedad Alternativa in

[@jonald2010]

Nice tuts. Can you make one with tracking facial movements and attached cinema4d objects onto a face. Like an ironman mask. Thanks

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+jonald lalas Nice idea, i'll look into it :D

[@DIGITALMEAT]

I've had a look into this, and at present i don't think it's possible, you'll have to use something like syntheyes

[@doublesob]

More tutorials, thank you!

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Cheers, please sub and check out the website at Digitalmeat.uk 😀

[@m1zyaoo]

Вы создаете пол с 29:00, и после этого объект (сфера) получает полноценное освещение + тень. Этот эффект создает пол. У меня такой вопрос - можно ли убрать пол из рендера, то есть оставить ТОЛЬКО объект(сферу), но взять с пола освещение + тень для сферы?

[@tornadotwins386]

This was freaking amazing. Thanks!

[@davc-design]

Great tutorial! When I render a frame to picture viewer it only shows the objects with a black background. How do I get the frame of the footage to render also with the objects?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Put a background in your scene, and place the material with the animated footage on it.

[@musik2740]

I am just wondering why you are being so generous with your knowledge?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Why not 😉

[@PROJECTJMUSIC]

Great tutorial, thanks!

[@sonofhendrix1618]

very cool effect.... I shall have to try it in Blender.. I dont have C4D.... wondering whether to buy it.

[@DIGITALMEAT]

do it, you know it makes sense :D

[@문어그리고초고추장]

Thank you, so in a nutshell, do you want to show us how to put realistic graphic effects into real life and make it look real? I enjoyed the lecture

[@MisterSable]

Thank you so much for this! This is wonderful information and well conveyed!

[@Mrjeffle45]

Hey, i have a problem with the channel rack. Everyti I add an instrunt, for example the soft he added, it keeps loading for a long

[@آلجباوي-ز7ص]

DUDE, I got so frustrated 'cause of that problem, thanks a lot!

[@zeyrox6756]

Also, I don't like idea of coloring again and again. In soft soft mobile, just pick a color and it colors the track, the soft, and the setuper

[@FeysalAnthonyNair]

this was a great tutorial really great thanks

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Cheers dude!

[@akpevbe]

Thanks for this tut dude, any chance u can pls show us new guys how to export out just the 3d elements out of c4d and just the recompose it in AE?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+Akpe ododoru Add a Compositing tag for the objects you want to export, and then create an object buffer :D

[@lexxandera]

Does the framrate really matter if you have an image sequence? Because I think if you have a sequence you can give it the fps you want, say 25 or 30. Also, I am not sure but in Mocha it is better to have uncompressed files like PNG. JPG is compressed so PNG-Sequence might be a better alternative. Anyway, thanks a lot for your many contributions. I really enjoy and appreciate your style! I learned a lot from you!

[@GhostNade]

Good job , looks better than Boju .

[@iQubicProductions]

Also known as Boooooyou

[@orlando17-y1z]

thanks! great tutorial

[@DIGITALMEAT]

glad you found it helpful, please sub :D

[@orlando17-y1z]

DIGITAL MEAT done ;) thanks again

[@3rdaxis609]

thnks man

[@dustinRo]

year. I want to get into making soft on desktop because it offers more features but I have just been preferring the softow of mobile apps

[@riaanlaubscher814]

Can't you just add a compositing tag to the floor plane object and deselect 'seen by camera'? That way the plane still influences the light hitting the bottom of the sphere but it does not show up in the render

[@budineonadv_banjarmasin]

Hey, I just wanted to check briesofty if there is a way for to import a new soft into the program, for example softs or sotNice tutorialng that

[@BEEFDOCTOR]

None of that sentence makes any sense at all.

[@sushantkumarsingh104]

Project bones and project data is a laborious and montous hassle to establish 'what is what' (especially from ssy and disorganised

[@MiguelJimenezMoyaTottiyfiore]

Thanks! :)

[@jobillephotography5529]

can you explain why you prefer the sequence footage instead of the original footage? thanks

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Because in this version of Cinema 4D the mp4 support was a bit shoddy and you would get better playback with a .jpg sequence, in C4D R19 this is no longer a problem as they overhauled the mp4 engine

[@jobillephotography5529]

Thank you. Great tutorials and i subscribed to your channel.

[@DIGITALMEAT]

thanks

[@astrongwater8027]

Awesome tut. How did you render it out to bring it into another program like AE?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+Alex Strongwater I always render as an image sequence so if anything goes wrong i don't lose everything, also if you want to change just a section of the render you can do, is this what you meant?

[@MBPaperPlanes]

At 15:00 you show how to do the Planar Constraint. I'm following along in R18 and when I add the tag, all the tracking points disappear. I can't get them to show up when I'm editing the triangle's points, so it won't make a selection. Have you tried this?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

make sure the tag is on the correct object and you have the motion tracker selected

[@MBPaperPlanes]

Ok, of course I solve it just after I post. But for others running into this, you have to figure out which nulls (created with the 3D solve process) you want to use for the triangle. Then drag those nulls into the Selection field in the Planar Constraint tag. Not sure why they made this feature clunkier in R18, but there you have it.

[@TomBenBel]

I really like your tutorial, but have the problem that c4d only reconstructs the camera for a few frames (21 frames in the middle of 800). Are there any settings i have missed?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+TomBenBel - maybe your track points are not good enough to solve the camera, did you you get rid of bad track point's using the error threshold? another thing, do you have any moving objects in the footage or a turned on television? if so you're gonna need to mask them out.

[@AntusMusic]

I'm getting a weird flickering noise on my object when I render it Any idea what it might be?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+AntusMusic - it might be because your GI settings are too low, i can't really tell without seeing your scene file.

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+AntusMusic did you solve your flickering problem?

[@rozadu5259]

Hi, thanks for your tutorial, I found it very helpful, but do u know how to exeed motion tracker, I want to add new material of the same footage before and after the already tracked part and I don`t want do do it again cause I spent hours creating movement.

[@DIGITALMEAT]

I'm not sure that's possible

[@scxnyc3035]

I would like to see what one does about doing this with a shot that you don't see a floor/ground. it doesnt work properly if you just go with a position and vector constraint. Is there a solution for those shots?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

yup, you just choose tracks points on an object and define the axis, it doesn't need to be a floor.

[@gamerplayer6523]

where were you hidding XD , nice tutoriel .

[@lowehr6268]

explaining the basics for .

[@Neobougnoule91]

I love you, great tut man

[@miph00]

Hi Digital Meat, this tutorial is amazing and i really wanna do it by my self -> BUT

[@miph00]

My Axis seems to be in front of the camera. How to get them in the middle of the scene ?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

you need to add your constraints to the tracker points first, these constraints determine where world zero is, and what XYZ are. As for the Axis, the axis on screen is just the axis of the motion tracker object when it is selected

[@miph00]

@@DIGITALMEAT Problem solved. I had a jpg sequence out of Premiere wich told C4D that the first Frame is something like 251445 (stupid high) So in that case the grid never shows up and i couldn't do all the steps properly. Now i finished it with a PNG sequence out of after effects. Thanks a lot for the respond.

[@3deoskill]

Thank you...

[@DIGITALMEAT]

No probs buddy, please sub

[@serg87w]

Thank you man...

[@paulogrohmann9240]

tks!

[@20430316]

I hope you get what you're looking for!

[@Rubel2k]

Sir what is use of Camera Orientation Constraint Tag

[@kuunami]

At 16:00 I don't fully understand why you choose Y as the direction?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+kuunami - Ok, I chose points that were being tracked on the floor but in 3D space these points were not flat like a ground plane so i chose the Y direction because Y is up in cinema 4D, this makes all the point that exist on the floor in the footage also exist on a flat plane in 3D space. does that help at all?

[@kuunami]

DIGITAL MEAT I think I understand. The ground is the Y plane in 3D space because In 3d space, a plane is named after which axis passes through it.

[@smyrkphace]

Hi, Thanks for the tut. Im having a nightmare with the motion tracker camera not moving once solved. To begin with its already created with a protection tag, in all the tuts Ive seen as soon as the motion tracking is solved the camera moves around in the perspective view when you scrub. Is it something to do with mettings? Ive tried multiple shots with different lighting etc, but the camera is just frozen.

[@smyrkphace]

Forgot to say R18

[@DIGITALMEAT]

If your Camera is not moving after a solve that means you didn't have enough tracking points or the quality of those points were not good enough.

[@smyrkphace]

Appreciate the quick reply, It still seems weird to me though because Ive tried 6 different clips now with varied amounts of trackers, tried lowering the error threshhold etc. Manual tracking doesnt want to stick to marks on surfaces at all. Is there a clip that you know that works somewhere that we could troubleshoot with? The last solve I ran had 2000 trackers and theyre mostly green in the perspective. I can align the axis to the floor but when I do that the camera just stays where it started... what am I missing... anything related to render settings?

[@smyrkphace]

ok finally have a result... used a newspaper with text. was going mad. most of the online examples seem to get it first time.

[@jacharries9996]

I've tracked the footage, made a 3d solver and added the constraints, but the camera or trackers won't move when I play or scrub - they just stand still. The trackers move when I'm selected on the 'motion tracker' object though. How do I fix this?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

I've answered your email

[@ItzGoldfish1]

i cant get a passed that part where you do the Tags, im not picking the right parts or something

[@DIGITALMEAT]

The constraint tags? what's your issue?

[@Kingland001]

I use version 2023, Lens Distortion is under Render menu.

[@jafetnoriega8623]

You make it to seem so simple, every time i try it on my own footage, the track does not hold on properly. I'll keep trying though, and thanks for the tutorial!

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+Jafet Noriega - what are you using to record your footage?

[@jafetnoriega8623]

+DIGITAL MEAT well, all the way from cellphone, dji Osmo and phantom 3. When the vídeo turns 180 degrees or does something funny it looses track and i cant find the right way to do it.

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+Jafet Noriega - do you have image stabilization on? if so, try turning it off.

[@coldenv_IG]

Hi DIGITAL MEAT! Did you ever had the Problem that you don't have all the Keyframes in the timeline when you click on the solved Camera?? I have this big issue that some shots from me work flawless, but some are just problematic when it comes to 3D Solve the camera. It looks like it just stops solving at some Parts in the Video. After the Tracking is done i click on the solved camera and the timeline is not full of "keyframes", what means that the camera is not moving? Any Ideas on this Lads? So frustrating!

[@DIGITALMEAT]

If you have segments of your timeline that do not have the keyframes for your solved camera, this means that were not enough good quality tracks in this segment to solve the camera, try adding manual tracks.

[@vashilramdharee8775]

Great tutorial, Im having one problem though... When i remove my solved camera from the motion tracker and delete motion tracker, my footage doesn't play. it's just stuck on the first frame, only my my grid moves as i scrub through the timeline. Any help with this?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

You need to go into material with the footage in it and go to Editor and make sure Animate Preview is checked on, let me know if that solves your issue :)

[@vashilramdharee8775]

@@DIGITALMEAT Hi There, Animate Preview is checked on, any other suggestions?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

@@vashilramdharee8775 - go to the material channel where you're footage is loaded and hit "calculate"

[@vashilramdharee8775]

@@DIGITALMEAT I also tried that but still doesn't work. Do you think it is because i am using R18 version of C4D or should i try loading a video instead of a png sequence?

[@DOSDreamz]

You are amazing :)

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Thanks, hope you subbed! :D

[@hondmij]

My tracking points are allways placed right into the camera. So whenever I place an object in the scene, its around the camera and not before it. Whenever i get these in the right place I cant seem to get the ground plane aligned correctly. Can you help me?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

The video at 14:30 shows you the tags you need to make the floor flat, define a world centre point and a tag for xyz direction

[@emanuelrukavina7278]

can i add 3d models in vids using this video (Cubes for example)

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Yes. That is what this tutorial is about, matching the camera move so you can incorporate 3d models into live footage

[@emanuelrukavina7278]

DIGITAL MEAT Thanks you are great 😀

[@JoniboniZ]

No programm is able to detect a framerate if you have a jpg sequence :D

[@Blancoaxel]

great thanks, cau u help me, i have some questions about tracking ( email or skype ) ?

[@Mrruidiaz]

Yoo this is pretty cool hope I'm lucky and it works out for me xD

[@AshTPush]

I was doing some tracking this morning and kept coming across a problem, my tracking points disappear when I click on a Motion Tracker tag. I found your tutorial to see if I was doing something wrong and I'm doing the exact same thing as you. Any ideas?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

could you upload a screen capture to youtube so i can see it?

[@AshTPush]

Thanks, I've just discovered that the camera is only being tracked for a section of video (series if jpgs) and the problem does not occur in this section. I've now tried with some new footage to see if that was the problem, and it was, my footage obviously wasn't good enough :)

[@DIGITALMEAT]

yeah, if your recording on a phone and move too fast it will probably mess the footage up, oh and digital stabilization needs to be put in the bin too.

[@jakeaminNE]

works great but my scene is so small I cant create hair objects ? im having to shrink the hair object so much that is distorts it ?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

This is easily solved, if you go to 18:10 in the video you will see i'm using the Vector Constraint Tag, underneath axis there is a drop down length, so if you choose two points either end of an object you know the length of you can input that value here, that will set the scene scale :D

[@성민지-t9w]

wow..

[@THEPASHKA]

When i render it only renders the flat surface that i made. How to make it render the other part?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Other part? you mean the background?

[@laissez-faire496]

Is there anyway to fix the sliding?...Like if it slides a lot

[@DIGITALMEAT]

yes, you need to retrack the footage

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Or get rid of bad tracks (the red ones), love the name btw :D

[@laissez-faire496]

DIGITAL MEAT lol thanks ☺And will using both After Effects and C4D improve the results...Or will I get the same results only using C4D?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

If you mean for tracking, i'd stick with one of them. If you mean for render quality, you can always improve the look in post.

[@armyvagyok]

Thanks for this tutorial (i do it you can see on my channel:P) Thanks again!

[@talibbeig2848]

sir, I follow this tutorial i didn't get proper plane surface angle why sir? help me out pls

[@DIGITALMEAT]

You probably need to filter out more inaccurate trackers, then use the Planar Constraint tag

[@bySevenFX]

nice tutorial :)

[@DIGITALMEAT]

thanks, please sub :D

[@Circuitoptimize23]

hello sir how to get this software?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

shop.maxon.co.uk/

[@jm4giv]

I love u. Thanks!

[@DIGITALMEAT]

love you too babes lolololol

[@alchemistplays6265]

I am having an issue when I upload the footage, nothing happens, the view doesn't change and I can't see the footage. I've done this before but now it doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

What version of Cinema 4D are you using?

[@alchemistplays6265]

@@DIGITALMEAT I'm using R21. What I was able to find out that worked was to reset my preferences. By the way, your tutorials are awesome and I've learned a lot. Thank you

[@JesusChrist-uf2yq]

With the distortion part I watched the other dudes tutorial but he only showed how to distort with images and not videos pls help

[@JesusChrist-uf2yq]

But I used my phone (Samsung) so do I even need to use it....I'm not sure if I have to add distortion or remove it

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Are you sure you watched it? Everything you need is in that video.

[@DIGITALMEAT]

The point of the lens distortion tool is to create a lens profile. this video may help you. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2fcaH2Bps6mldE

[@kuzkirill]

Спасибо )

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Рад, что смог помочь

[@lucastruuum]

Savage

[@brijeshmishra4947]

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[@illouminati7009]

I love the tutorial but I seem to have one problem. Whenever I create the background object, it creates the background. In the tutorial it shows that the background changes depending on what frame you are in so the background is correct. Whenever I create the background object, the background just seems to be 1 frame. So whenever I scrub through and hit render at a random frame, there will be a rendered picture but it won't be the matching background with the frame that I am in. I hope you can understand my problem and help me out!

[@DIGITALMEAT]

did you create the background manually or did you do it by pressing the "create background Object" button in the motion tracker?

[@illouminati7009]

+DIGITAL MEAT pressed the create background object on the motion tracker

[@DIGITALMEAT]

look at the video at 20:00

[@illouminati7009]

+DIGITAL MEAT done it exactly like you've did it in the video! I'll record it tomorrow so you can see what's going on.

[@DIGITALMEAT]

it's ok, all you have to do is open the material that was created when you pressed the "create background object" button, then under all the channels ie color etc, click editor, inside that there is a check box called animate preview, make sure it's checked and let me know if that works.

[@WAXIIE]

I haven't understand the program name to turn the movie into jpegs files.. What is it?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+WAXIE I Design Sorry, are you asking me how you render out as a .jpg image sequence?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+WAXIE I Design Oh i get ya, to turn my video footage into .jpgs i used adobe premiere

[@WAXIIE]

Thank you :)

[@DOSDreamz]

+DIGITAL MEAT is it okay if i do it in png?

[@DIGITALMEAT]

+DOS Dreamz yes but they are bigger files so it might slow down cinema 4d, i'd just use .jpg then render out just the 3d and put that over the original footage in After Effects

[@LaitEauFilms]

It is weird, my generated background stick to the first image when I render. Any idea why ? UPDATE: It works with a video, is there a reason that it didn't work ? Thanks a lot for your tutorial btw !

[@DIGITALMEAT]

you need to go into the shader and press the calculate button :D

[@AdrinaoHack]

I CAN DO THIS ON OUTHER PROGRAM ?? MY OPERATIONAL SISTEM IS 32 BITS AND I NEED A TRACK MOTION !! :(

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Sorry? i don't quite understand, Cinema 4d is 32 and 64 bit

[@madedigital]

I like the naff footage, it does the job and i have learnt a lot here i just Sub, keep up the good work. That was boss!!!.

[@DIGITALMEAT]

Thank you very much and cheers for the sub :D

[@noemiechevalier4373]

I'm having so many problem with this :( for some reason when I open the motion graph it doesn't show anything on it ! also all my points are red and I cannot place the planer on the floor even if I put it on the Y axe .. help ..

[@DIGITALMEAT]

If you have an empty motion graph then that means you don't have any tracking points, try adding a lot more tracking points before you track the footage, also, is your footage of decent quality?

[@noemiechevalier4373]

DIGITAL MEAT i put it up to 1500 numbers of tracks like in the video and i used my samsung phone for the footage so the resolution turned out to be quite good :/

[@DIGITALMEAT]

mmm, what version of c4d are you using?

[@noemiechevalier4373]

DIGITAL MEAT c4d r18 ! Also i just tried creating the background object, the settings are exactly the same as in the video however when i render it, it stays still at the first frame :/ sorry to bother you so much !

[@DIGITALMEAT]

no problem, message me on the digital meat facebook page