The Easiest Way to Camera Track Vertical Footage in Blender

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

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[@sim.ba83]

"Render Undistorted" and "Sensor Fit" saved my life. I struggled the whole week with little involontaire paralax in my end scene. I was about to do my tracking in Davinci. Thank you very much for this tutorial!!!!

[@iNFINITE-CGi]

I finally got that real Tracking Tutorial, I watched so many tutorials but they didn't work out I struggling with the alignment of the ground plane. But man you showed that hidden trick!! Thank You so much brother

[@robinsonyovelraj5937]

Thanks for helping me out! I didn't knew about sensor fit.

[@chad5893]

Man, good stuff. You talked just fast enough to have the whole thing flow and follow along but kept it concise and to the point. Well done.

[@emileschnabel7644]

Hi Jacob. This is perfect.!! Was struggling with the alignment of the ground plane. Thanks!

[@jonniebrasco68]

I love this method more than geo tracking. You made it so easy.

[@miteshamin6984]

This was really helpful, especially the last part about the sensor. I was going around in circles trying to figure out why the camera tracking was acting up.

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

Glad to hear!!!

[@SteveErnst117]

Thanks for posting this, I've noticed weird issues when tracking vertical footage, so I appreciate the info! I think in newer versions of Blender, it actually auto-detects vertical footage and sets the sensor fit to horizontal for you.

[@iiTzMYUNG]

This man is a legend man i follow almost your all tracking tutorials and its just awesome as always

[@spaideman7850]

0:38 when i open my vertical video, blender rotate my video anti closewise -90degree ... why?

[@iNFINITE-CGi]

You can convert your video to image sequence. Hope that will help as mine

[@rakeshsoren9541]

thank you brother for the tutorial💖

[@_T-800_]

thank yooooooooooooooooooou! You're the best!

[@marciarvidaldossantos6445]

You are the best! Thank you! 😀

[@AudreyGoncalves-]

Thank you Jacob.

[@DNNS.Visuals]

This helps me so much. Thank you! 🙏🏼

[@01234fida]

This is great tutorial learn a lot, but everytime I come I have the same issue everything works expect when I click set floor whole scene breaks and camera stuck to origin point (3d cursor)

[@alimkotwal5876]

Bro can you please make a tutorial on how to composite yourself in cgi environment relastic using blender and after effects please 🙏

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

I’ll make a note of it and might get to it later on down the line. Thanks!

[@sadafrani1921]

​@@Jacob_Zirklewhat to do if we want airplane on sky in same footage moving away or towards camera ?

[@zobaer-bd3mj]

great job jacob friend🥰🥰

[@georgeluna6217]

Great video, I am importing my vertical video but it is rotated when appears in blender. How did you import it like this? Do I have to make it image sequence instead of mp4?

[@FalakKhan-u4r]

I found the solution of this irritating problem : vertical vid gets converted / rotated to horizontal vid. 1. import the vid 2. then click ADD, its in the up-center beside view , select, marker . 3.click (effect strip) then (Transform). .....above ur vid and audio file, a transform file will appear.... 4. click N button on keyboard to open properties of that Transform file. 5. go to (transform) in the properties and then in (Rotation) and make it -90 degree( minus 90 degrees) Done with this 6. after go to Output properties( its on the full right side, where other properties are with diffrnt symbols.) 7. here u have to change the resolution. if u have 1920 by 1080 vid then simply reverse it, example... X= 1080 and Y = 1920. if 4k video then X= 2160 and Y=3840. this will make ur vid vertical. 8.lastly adjust ur frame rates and start and end of video, as u want ur video to be.(u know this) 9.render the animation( cntrl + f12) Thnxx me later. apply this. ask freely any Q.

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

Yeah, you’ve just discovered the entire reason us VFX artist like working with image sequences instead of videos. Each program reads video files in their own way and it can get weird based on the codec and setting for the file. Usually we’ll convert the file to a lossless image sequence and then convert it back to a video file at the very end to solves most transfer problems like that. Hope that helps!

[@FalakKhan-u4r]

​@@Jacob_Zirkle yeah

[@karkalavigneshreddy2586]

​@@FalakKhan-u4rThank you bruh🫂, I was also having the same issue, thanks for the detailed information.♥️

[@KennedyCarrijo]

Thanks for this!

[@DiegoFavre]

exelente video, podras explicar la seccion de mascking? que quiero pasar un objeto detraz de algo en el video, gracias.

[@polatkemalakyuz2021]

I'm confused why Blender takes reference as feet. Also how the Blender is missing same type of measurement at Track(Solve) menu in case of our seettings on as feet?

[@eriknordeus]

Can you just keep sensor width at default 35?

[@ilhamlux]

A great tutorial! I have followed the steps in the tutorial. However, in my current scene, which involves VFX + particle rigid body (raining objects), I am facing difficulty when the objects fall from the sky and hit the chair on the left. I am considering creating a holdout or shadow catcher on the left, but I'm confused because it penetrates the ground (gets cut off). Any advice?

[@spearcy]

Just some thoughts. If you have any tracking markers that came from the chair, you can use those to make that chair in the same space, then image map it (proj from view or texture coordinate with window ), and set it to rigid body passive. Have a separate passive floor.

[@TheShama98]

help i drop video 9 16 but they load to 16 9 .what is the problem ?

[@rexsip4482]

Thank you for this tutorial. I noticed that the link to the images was not working. This is a bit disappointing because I would have liked to apply your advice to this video. Thanks again. A thumbs up to encourage you (I'm already a subscriber).

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

Yeah, sorry unfortunately, after I release this video, the author of the footage took it down from their website. You should still be able to follow along with any similar camera tracking with vertical footage though.

[@k_jpg5515]

Thanks, best!🙏🏻

[@BlendWithRoy]

life saveerrrrr 🥲

[@spearcy]

Great tip about setting the camera sensor to horizontal when tracking vertical vids! (it's kind of ironic how it sounds...) Also ironically, at 5:55 you unchecked "render undistorted" and said you were unchecking it because you didn't want to account for any lens distortion. But doesn't "render undistorted" mean that it won't account for lens distortion in the render?

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

You would think that however the term undistorted is a little counterintuitive. The base footage is distorted due to the lens distortion and if we check render undistorted, it’s going to distort our background image to be perfectly flat and remove distortion thus it being called undistorted. The reason I don’t like having that in my viewport specifically is so I can see the orginal plate unaltered. Of course if cg looks like it’s sliding on the edges I can check that to double check it’s correct but the idea is that we want to distort our CGI in composting rather than distorting the image itself. Hope that helps and it’s a little confusing at first

[@spearcy]

I just noticed that when I uncheck render undistorted my cube and plane will slide, but when I leave it checked they stick to the track. But in your video, you didn't have that happen when you unchecked it. Is there another place where that gets dealt with in the tracking section? Or maybe it's just a glitch in my project.

[@emileschnabel7644]

Do you have suggestions on how to correct the alignment of the XYZ axis after camera tracking?

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

Just go back and redefine your ground plane. You want to make it perfect and then you can set the origin and x or y axis after that.

[@emileschnabel7644]

@@Jacob_Zirkle Will try that. Thanks!

[@virusfs2929]

Brother great tutorial...❤.. please make tutorial on motorcycle 🏍️ cinematic running animation in blender

[@JipCustoms]

Can anyone tell me why my solve error goes up(sometimes) after cleaning up?

[@x134yf]

that great!

[@Rintaro2618]

I dont want to render the video footage.....how do I revome it from render.....???

[@siddharajk]

Heeyy Jacob, I tried to track a vertical video but the video appeared horizontally in the blender camera. Can you help me with tracking a vertical video?? Thank youuu

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

That happens to certain video codecs in blender. I'd recommend converting to an image sequence. That's just one of the reason us VFX artist like using image sequences over videos. Hope that helps

[@siddharajk]

@@Jacob_Zirkle thankss

[@AbdulAziz-cj4hg]

do i have to use Blender4.0 to automatically set vertical video?

[@Jacob_Zirkle]

I’m a little bit confused on what you mean?

[@wrillywonka1320]

@@Jacob_Zirkle i think maybe hes talking about how when we open vertical footage in blender motion tracking it comes out sideways (horizontal) yours came out vertical. how did you accomplish that? is it a setting?

[@lavkhandelwal-jo4uu]

my clip is opning horisontal but the clip is vertical

[@Quary07]

How time it takes to render video for minutes Or 30 seconds

[@onhel1679]

That all will depend on your graphics card and settings

[@pajisounds]

Guys, is there any site I can subscribe, buy or get free 3 d assets from ?

[@MathIsBestest]

I think poliigon is a good one. The one Blender Guru made. (I think that's how you spell it, poliigon). There's some free stuff and some paid stuff

[@FalakKhan-u4r]

For everyone.I found the solution of this irritating problem : vertical vid gets converted / rotated to horizontal vid. 1. import the vid 2. then click ADD, its in the up-center beside view , select, marker . 3.click (effect strip) then (Transform). .....above ur vid and audio file, a transform file will appear.... 4. click N button on keyboard to open properties of that Transform file. 5. go to (transform) in the properties and then in (Rotation) and make it -90 degree( minus 90 degrees) Done with this 6. after go to Output properties( its on the full right side, where other properties are with diffrnt symbols.) 7. here u have to change the resolution. if u have 1920 by 1080 vid then simply reverse it, example... X= 1080 and Y = 1920. if 4k video then X= 2160 and Y=3840. this will make ur vid vertical. 8.lastly adjust ur frame rates and start and end of video, as u want ur video to be.(u know this) 9.render the animation( cntrl + f12) Thnxx me later. apply this. ask freely any Q.

[@aboazam77555]

Thx i appreciate that Effort❤

[@NorchGaming]

game of thrones SAM

[@jony_japan]

I SAW ALL YOUR VIDEOS BUT THEY DIDN'T GIVE ANY HELP TO ME...

[@jony_japan]

I couldn't do any tracking in blender THANKS ...

[@3DbyPrabh]

dude is fat version of blender guru

[@xSupaire]

Useless tuto yall Always do easy shoots how about something not stable that you filmed yourself