How to Get Started with VFX in Blender

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

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[@kennydrinan2000]

hey when i render my animation it show a wierd faint white line around the plane and the monkey is there a way to fix it?

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

@@kennydrinan2000 Hi yes you just need to premultiply the alpha over

[@kennydrinan2000]

@@Jacob_Zirkle it worked thanks a lot

[@germeherman1853]

is that normal that my vfx of 423 frames takes 2 days to render

[@cyberquest909]

@@germeherman1853 i dont think so

[@blendering3D]

I'll track my donut in my coffee table

[@rooicell]

we all understand what you're saying LOL

[@danjosan6740]

that's literally the first thing I did... lol

[@bbiss3312]

@Loud Blender Yeah, that's what he was talking about...

[@q370p]

same

[@JustARandomHuman]

upload it to r/blenderdoughnut, make ppl freak out on how good you are that it looks almost real XD

[@spydino4892]

for those who are confused 2.9 users when you go to render view mode u cant see the background.... just go to render properties > go to film > then turn on transparent by ticking the box next to it

[@waffle_cs366]

Thank you so much i was pulling my hair out

[@spydino4892]

@@waffle_cs366 ur welcome

[@xuebinchen9895]

thanks a lot!!!

[@spydino4892]

@@xuebinchen9895 ur welcome!

[@X1ma_]

thank you very much, good sir

[@OneTeenDiscipleship]

Amazing that his dude was able to make a VFX tutorial that needed no rewinds and was quite understandable. Every other video I've seen just left me confused.

[@stuartallen2001]

Dude this tutorial was freaking awesome. I am a beginner blender user of 2 weeks and I could follow along. My motion tracking solve error was a little higher than recommended (1.57 and there's a noticeable jump in one spot) but it still worked pretty dang well given this is my first vfx project ever. Thx for uploading this!

[@Willow_and_Sage]

I think this is one of my new favourite blender channels, you are a joy.

[@akumalenny5458]

Him-"solve error is good under .3" Me with a solve error of 88.06-" Close enough"

[@dedes1415]

same problem here and the camera is not moving ... still looking around for an answer.. if you found one please tell me

[@akumalenny5458]

@Trinity Rose Mette ain't that the truth

[@asixs0]

Mine was 105 lol

[@akumalenny5458]

@@asixs0 Dang it. You beat my high score

[@notannpc002]

i got a .2

[@jasperrenaldo7367]

beautiful explanation I did not have to rewind even once the right pace and clearly explained Thanks a lot Mate

[@deadpoolalonso6748]

Jacob bro ....thanks for all the information in all videos..... appreciate your work

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

Thanks so much! I love sharing what I’ve learned

[@anandhups360]

Literally everyone's first camera tracking footage 😅😅

[@mariolatorre4478]

sisi, esq tal cual

[@mrcatto3d813]

Mine was 8 years ago with boujou and After Effects, a call of duty clip. Added my name there etc in 3d space, was rly worth it my old acc had tons of views back then

[@upriz68]

for those confused if the plane is still visible if youre at 11:08 you need to go to object properties (orange square) scroll down to visibility and next to the word "mask", click shadow catcher. hope this helps anybody ;3

[@motionlessimages4644]

You are a life saver. Much appreciated

[@relaxingmusichub6318]

Ty.

[@borisgarichkin204]

I thought I broke my blender, thank you very much indeed

[@vamshikrishna4477]

I don't have that word mask

[@upriz68]

@@vamshikrishna4477 try switching render engines

[@bobsquaretenen]

Awesome Video!👍

[@lukamuka3998]

Bro ! You are explaining like i know every shortcut,and everything

[@oscarburr11]

Brilliant mate. I like that you really didn't skip over anything. The majority of the other tutorials I've watched tend to gloss over some of the smaller aspects which they do, without giving instruction. You didn't skip over anything; very well done mate

[@one1shotonly]

Even two years later. This is super helpful. Thanks a lot!

[@TakeoverMediaGroups]

thanks, i was looking at how to add a video as an over to the tv screen of another video and i think this was a step in the right direction.

[@Bloxxer425]

This has taken me 2 days. I suck at this and am so confused. I feel my brain melting after trying to make this. Good tutorial ig.

[@linc_d]

Best tutorial I have ever watched.

[@brandonjacksoon]

Keep your channel up Jacob! Really cool topic about VFX in blender!

[@craftycub]

That was my first VFX effect years ago also lol I havent made it much further lol Good job!

[@pcexe_]

The First one who really explains what he does 😍

[@sebastiangheorghiu4751]

Make a tutorial on how to remove the tracking dots on the paper. That would be great if you can.

[@czerskip]

Default Cube made one just recently.

[@thedankest4966]

You can mask them out.

[@sheauiwne5294]

@@thedankest4966 make a tutorial on masking then

[@gingerdog8203]

@@sheauiwne5294 there has been one for a *while* kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioqUfISsaJWci8k

[@jishanthdeveloper]

make a vid on floor then u can track any desings or edges for any object

[@kaiwenlidirector]

Dude you're the man. Love your VFX contents!

[@DizzeeY]

Awesome video dude! God Bless, lets trust in the Lord Jesus, for He is coming soon!

[@TheJeffDeath]

Awesome tutorial! thank you for helping me make my first vfx shot! love the channel!

[@tomascampo6592]

Thank you very much. This was mi first try doing this. I loved the results.

[@sebastiangheorghiu4751]

Easy and straight to the point. Well done! I think I just leveled up in blender 3d.

[@Deadman3RIP]

Thank you so much!! Please make more!! That was really great! Becoming a fan here!

[@ARCVFX007]

My video is tracked and my 3d model also following trackers but when I render the animation it doesn't follow the camera and just a PNG of 3d model appears in video Plz plz plz help

[@unlkc]

Wow amazing!

[@brandonjacksoon]

Thank you for VFX tutorial! Really useful :) I want more :D Liked and subscribed!

[@matlollo8514]

amazing!

[@itech5403]

just we have to say thank you zirkle

[@DanB]

woaw thanks this is great and easy to anderstand & follow :) merci !

[@CmanXP]

Excellent tutorial, my man. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼

[@Tugezu]

Extremely detailed and great tutorial.Thank you and well done!

[@diobrando1157]

Hey it’s Jon snow’s friend sharing his vast knowledge

[@abouditv724]

Thanks

[@zd2264]

I like this kind of detailed tutorial

[@natashabila8903]

I actually did it, nice tutorial...really learned something

[@patricklevar]

Nice job

[@sabihaahmed-h5w]

how was that for beginners! me: closes eyes for 0.1 sce jacob: so guys i hope you understand it thats how we make mona lisa

[@BlockxBuddys_Kinderfilme]

Thanks for the tutorial. This is pretty good and i got my first try with vfx that works 👍

[@thuanthaib]

thank you Jacob Zirkle

[@another3drookie8]

MAAAN, thank you so much, i did my first motion tracking video!

[@carlperl412]

WOW! man you dony have any idea how helpful is your videos for me. I live in Venezuela and can't pay for a course because the communist hyperinflaction only pay us 2 dollar per month of salary. And with your channel I can learn in my own peace. Thank you so much, Jacob.

[@spacemonkey8060]

thank you!! this is a very useful tutorial and would 100% recommend it if your a beginner!!!

[@chrisdelao70]

Ur awesome bud! keep up with the great tuts!

[@SANTOSHKUMAR-zo4ef]

great tutorial for beginners ! thanks

[@AVERYochang]

Great Content. Keep up the good work!

[@tylerbricker3552]

Thank you very much, this was a great tutorial! :)

[@adiaprog]

The tutorial was very good, and although im relativly new to blender (about 1 month of use) i did get along well. My only problem was that one day when i will do my own VFX with something else, i just for a life cannot remember the steps of what to do and sadly i wish that especially to help remember you would explain why you put this into that in the nodes so.... the kinda lack of explaining is a problem right there. I dont think that after doing this i will be able to do it correctly again without watching ur vid another 10000 times to remember one step. (i guess its just me being an idiot.) Overall great video!

[@EdNorty]

Thanks for telling us what the buttons mean hehe Hate it when tutorials just expect you to follow the buttons blindly!

[@chrismofer]

followed along and made a pretty great result, but I feel like there must be some better way to only render it once with the correct colorspace instead of rendering just the monkey once thru and then rendering again with the stills sequence.

[@freezinfire]

Thank you very much for making this video.

[@Hue_Martin]

A very good tutorial

[@xyaxis]

you are the best, sensei

[@mananpanchal500]

Thank u

[@SAIFTT5570]

Good

[@Dreaweed]

More of that please, would be nice if there you make more detailed videos

[@Judametry]

Everything works fine for me until I set the floor, my camera seems to aim face down and when I set the scale nothing changes. I would greatly appreciate some help with this!

[@airplaneaviation5750]

Whenever I render i cant see my video layer underneath it, whether its a an image or animation, not sure why

[@brandfall9497]

sameeeeeeeeeee

[@funnytiktoks7910]

same

[@funnytiktoks7910]

@@brandfall9497 Make sure you set film transparency on in the render properties and that everything is in the same collection

[@funnytiktoks7910]

Make sure you set film transparency on in the render properties and that everything is in the same collection

[@talalbow]

Same dude

[@JimarCurry]

when i finished everything plugged the sequence back in and post the mix into the composite it only renders out a transparent background still

[@JimarCurry]

i didnt mute the layer but after that it recongized it thank you !

[@atharvgolam]

yes

[@robertkovalevic]

I am facing this issue at the moment. Not sure what the solution was for you though

[@doodledoo5611]

Bro...it took me two hours for a 17 minute video

[@alexleonmridul]

😂😂

[@alexleonmridul]

@@rohit_parihar1156 you have to export te animation

[@RezikoMiqaia-d8v]

Welcome to blender tutorials😂

[@C-7-I-S-T-A-L]

In the animating industry that is damn quick

[@HRT_HARSH]

Congratulations 🎉

[@shwaibkabore9790]

thank you

[@Otse]

For tracker solve, i got a whopping 81.11 solve, but i went through every point and they were all good lmfao

[@Hridhaandrawings]

can anyone tell me 8:42 how to open it? please

[@violettracey]

Thank you!

[@sujansen738]

7:47 how do you them 😭😭😭 plz tell me❤️

[@ashish_banjare]

(6:42) Help! When I click on solve camera it shows an error " Failed to solve the motion : most likely there are no good keyframes " Please help me if you know how to solve this I would be greatful

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

It’s most likely because your A and B key frame aren’t being found correctly. Try looking for a moment in the shot where there is the most camera movement and selecting that range to be the A and B key frame. If that doesn’t work make sure your tracking markers are following the dots and exist throughout the whole clip. Hope that helps

[@ashish_banjare]

@@Jacob_Zirkle thanks you so much for helping I fixed my problem thanks again 😊

[@ashish_banjare]

@@duckyblenderold I deleted that project then recorded a second video and all the problems were solved after tha

[@theodorschnoor4921]

@@Jacob_Zirkle I have the same problem, but how do i set a track to my a or b keyframe?

[@kartechindustries3069]

Instead of PNG sequence can I ad another movie clip.

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

The reason we do a png sequence instead of a movie clip is because we need the transparent background for our monkey. If it was a movie clip then there would be no alpha channel so the background would be black instead of transparent. We do this method because the monkey and the movie clip don’t share the same color space so we have to render out the monkey separately in order for the monkey and the movie clip to be in the same color space.

[@TerryMartinART]

Why is my rendering not showing the background ? I see it in the layout. But background is rendering grey. So I have to pre-render the object as image frames and do all that other stuff to get it in the background.

[@M1lkshaking]

This is happening for me too

[@TerryMartinART]

@@M1lkshaking I later figured it out, I will look at exactly what I did when I get home.

[@Mangazimusic]

found a solution. - i just had to wait till the render is fully finished. the problem is blender renders the model first and composites the video dead last, so when the render starts it seems like only the model is going to render. If anyone else is having this issue, just be patient.

[@TerryMartinART]

@@Mangazimusic Thanks for the answer. I did eventually also figure out because I was using a video for a background image I had to select an option in the settings under a category of film. Something about transparent. Forget exactly, would have to tinker with it some more to exactly recall what I did. I did not even consider about the compositor rendering last. Yeah that was throwing me off too. Makes sense now after reading your comment. Thanks again!

[@TerryMartinART]

Apparently I never followed up, haha, got busy... LIke I said below in other comment. It was something related to film settings under something about transparent. Forget exacly, this was months ago. The comment I commented on below the guy explains it well too for other problems we are having.

[@hyperion4223]

My tracking things are all off towards the end of my clip. How do I fix that? He keeps saying to make sure they're all on the paper, but

[@ThePickleVR]

TYSM

[@atayturan7097]

11:50 I have a slight problem. When I render all I get is the monkey head but the background is non-existent can someone please help me?

[@bbiss3312]

Make sure you set the film to transparent. So, render properties --> Film ----> uncheck transparent.

[@mehul1796]

you teach very well but my laptop sucks

[@cggirl7481]

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

[@Malay_11]

Nice video very helpful :)

[@itzMyraBrayv]

um... how doth thou select multiple tracking dots on le paper

[@alexmcfly31415]

Cool, now I can make Invizimals!

[@violettracey]

Thanks!

[@evmuid7937]

When I render it, it doesn't show the video. But when I put it on rendered view it shows

[@Mangazimusic]

me too. I've checked most of the comments and apparently for some it works when you click on transparency in the film render properties and put everything in the same collection, but that solution is still not working for me.

[@Mangazimusic]

found a solution. - just wait till the render is fully finished. the problem is blender renders the model first and composites the video dead last, so when the render starts it seems like its only the model is going to render. If anyone else is having this issue, just be patient.

[@FerminaByse-s6f]

Price Track

[@carlopierandozzi2040]

I am having a problem with prefetch. It only caches 1/3 of the video. the rest is choppy. The video is 340 frames

[@carrickdemin]

For some reason the background video that im tracking to works fine in the viewport, but never appears in the render. Help?

[@Mangazimusic]

same problem with me. I already clocked transparency and put everything in the same collection its still not working

[@Mangazimusic]

found a solution. - just wait till the render is fully finished. the problem is blender renders the model first and composites the video dead last, so when the render starts it seems like its only the model is going to render. If anyone else is having this issue, just be patient.

[@bestOfYoutube01]

I am having a problem with my tracking scene. When I render my video , its borders are curved. What's the solution for this ?

[@homeblenderstudio9219]

Nice tutorial, but when i click "Setup Tracking Scene", i haven ' t these X's in the right - side window. Can you help?

[@silvertube52]

Great video, useful info. A speaking style suggestion, please try to say 'actual' and 'actually' less often.

[@sohambedarkar4835]

great video😀 i have some problem while tracking the video . In my footage the camera movement goes from down to up like vertical movement but after tracking the video my ground plane and my model is also going upward. what must be the issues ?? pls help

[@NikitaGarets]

Problem: I have a long panning shot so my trackers are renewed in middle. I can not select the floor: "three tracks with budles are needed to orient the floor". How to fix it?

[@richarddantz4256]

How did you go into render view and it still show the video without clicking transparency?

[@Syosin.0]

My background video doesn't show in the renders. It's fine in redner view but it's not there in the render

[@MyStudio-io3so]

I cannot floor object in Blender. When I select three track and hit floor it goes in a wired rotated direction

[@TechFilmsTechnology]

if ill press floor blender error ( Three tracks with bundles are needed to orient the floor ) what is this ?

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

That means that those three tracking dots don’t produce a floor blender can detect. Try selecting another three points and trying again.

[@TechFilmsTechnology]

@@Jacob_Zirkle alla trackers saying that 😭

[@albenhort_official]

Thank you sooooooooooo much!

[@ojassharma6978]

Is there any professional editor (any type would work) to help me out? I need some personal assistance.

[@toiletchickenstudios9027]

HELP! I started tracking, but some of the points go off the camera in some frames. Now the tracking has stopped and won't go any further!

[@mjrbproductions]

mine seems to have some white noise around the edges. is this just a lighting issue, or a limitation of the program.

[@9inecy359]

Please help me, am new in blender, after the tracking when I switched to layout then from evee to cycles I couldn't see the video sence I could only see the monkey head please I don't know what wrong with it.

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

When you render out an image, does it still show the video

[@9inecy359]

@@Jacob_Zirkle No it doesn't

[@9inecy359]

Please help me how can I do it I really want to learn it

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

@@9inecy359 make sure in the compositing tab that you have the alpha over node plugged into the composite node. Also make sure in the render properties, in the film tab you have transparency on

[@9inecy359]

Thanks alot

[@asy42699]

tysm idc abt the lighting for now bcz im just starting of