Master Camera Tracking in 4 Minutes | Blender Tutorial

[@lorenzopenna.]

For a complete beginners this might not be the best tutorial, but after watching a couple videos i fell like I've learned much much more from those 4 mins than from 1h+ tutorials

[@endfite]

Its so simple, I'll only have to watch this video 20 times tommrow when I start a new project.

[@paparinga]

It's actually tutorials like this one that explain how the blender tracking system ain't that bad after all, you just gotta know how to use it. Thanks Edin, wonderful content.

[@sonynicolson6983]

After watching several videos, this is the best one for an amateur Blender user! Thank you so much!

[@edinspiegel]

Thank you! I'm so glad it helped!

[@elliottvanloo3653]

This is fantastic! been looking for fast overview vids like this for ages, SO HELPFUL!

[@edinspiegel]

Thank you so much! Glad you like it!

[@S9universe]

if u can make a short out of it it will become the best tracking reference out there bruh, this one is already exceptional, keep creating good content

[@stial]

I love your ability to be both brief and highly constructive at the same time.

[@GaryAus]

Your editing style is so amazing ! Please don't stop being who You are !

[@yds55]

By far the best Camera Tracking Tutorial i have seen so far! Well done and thank you alot!

[@PiterparkerYT]

I must say, I watched tens of long camera tracking tutorials and I still learned new stuff Very helpful tutorial and you just earned a new subscriber ;)

[@AntonyVas]

Best video on tracking in Blender I've ever seen. Thanks!

[@Zenmsn]

Thank you! Perfect pace, I love this format "please teach others how to make these video's." The world needs more of this.

[@CoMmAnDeRYT]

Short, on point and everything is explained properly. Perfect

[@edinspiegel]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the tutorial!

[@valtabohm]

Son of a ...... This is the best blender camera track video till date. Mfs be always explaining the same but you.... oh you... my friend, totally carried this. THANKS

[@edinspiegel]

Thank you! I'm so happy you like the video!

[@fullyleaded]

Wow what a great video. So much attention to detail. So much information packed into such a short video. Thank you for sharing.

[@edinspiegel]

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[@blenderstorm]

I really appreciate how your video explains everything so quickly and clearly, and with great humour. Thanks!

[@edinspiegel]

I'm glad you liked it!

[@rafaellamothe6552]

It looks like you know what you are talking about and if you make a video of 20 minutes everybody could learn camera tracking. But why 4 minutes for such extensive topic? Explaining everything lightning fast with no examples or follow thru, making 10 cuts every 3 seconds and cover the screen with memes and words make the video unintelligible. Make a longer, calmer one please! 🙏

[@edinspiegel]

Yeah, you are 100% Correct - My newer videos are still fast-paced but without any of the memes and unnecessary distracting stuff. They are a bit slower, but I don't want to slow down to much.

[@heckensteiner4713]

I like it fast! Could live without the memes, though. 😅

[@bluediamondpresentations7257]

Ah! thank you so much for not making it too long and too boring, honestly I could have slept by now if I haven't got it 😂 Thank you ♥️

[@cinnamondum]

Awesome, totally underrated channel.

[@EFX612]

thank you! This the best tutorial on this I've seen yet!

[@edinspiegel]

Thank you!

[@ThePhantomGazz]

Thank you. Your explanation for the motion solver helped me a great deal.

[@edinspiegel]

I'm happy it helped you!

[@beaustine6093]

Loved the pace. Nice work! Definitely saw some info that I wasn’t familiar with. 🙏🏻

[@Cokey96]

I usually watch these vids on 1.5 times speed. Not with this guy LMAO. Wish our college teacher would be this time efficient!

[@fluffsquirrel]

Short, funny, highly informative. I did not know about the weights, that's a gamechanger. Thank you so much!

[@edinspiegel]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it & found it helpful!

[@imiy]

why the heck it only plays first 19 frames if I imported an image sequence with 600 frames? and when I click "Set scene frames" it changes the range to 19

[@Kiwiknecht]

God editing and i now know everything i need !

[@JeremyWeed]

When I set the floor or the wall of the scene, it just sends the camera into a completely random rotation. Seemingly no rhyme or reason to what it's doing. Any advice? I've also noticed in the viewport, where you have the empties representing the tracking points, the camera is zoomed in and none of the tracking points actually line up with the footage. I have the camera focal length set in the track menu and I'm still having that issue as well. I'm not sure if they're connected or not. Any advice is appreciated!

[@atch300]

Same problems here

[@JeremyWeed]

@@atch300 yeah it's tricky, still haven't found a solution

[@RandomStudio-g7o]

How do you stop the track???

[@CrownHillProduction]

Yooooooo, thank you. This is how you make a tutorial!

[@BlenderWorks1]

cara pode me ajudar? eu faço tudo certo mas quando eu aperto F12 nao renderiza o video atras, mas eu faço tudo igualzinho

[@bsv_za]

What are the consequences of not making it an image sequence? I always track .mov videos and I've never really had any issues.

[@LiveMusicRec]

I recorded a vertical video and I don't have the same 8 markers along the whole footage, is there a workaround for those cases? Thank you

[@edinspiegel]

Hey there, so yeah I think there are two workarounds, the first one is this video by cgmatter: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnjag6OYjrBna7s this will only work in some cases, but you could try to give it a shot the other workaround, isnt really a workaround, rather a bit of extra information, because the 8 don't actually need to persist for the whole footage, they only need to be active withing the frame range you set for the camera solve, of course you always need 8 trackers, but they don't have to be the same anymore. I hope that helps!

[@LiveMusicRec]

@@edinspiegel I'll check it out, thank you so much!

[@Blobby_Waslobby]

@@edinspiegel Hey could you tell me more about what you mean by not needing them to be the same anymore? I've fully tracked my footage with each frame having 8 or more trackers and I'm still getting the error 8 markers message?

[@carlosmarx2380]

i dont know what i am doing wrong, but every time i track my footage (tried like 6 times), the camera movement didnt match. even with a resolve error below 1. the camera moves way to little. the rotation is right, but the timing is off, and the location is wrong

[@weeliano]

Very good and succinct explanation!

[@MrStanFungi]

what do i do if the camera is circling around a subject?

[@takeraparterer]

Why do i need to use image sequences? serious question.

[@edinspiegel]

Hey there - yeah so you need to use image sequences because else you can run into a situation where the tracking points are slipping around - I think it only happens if the framerate doesnt match 100% - but just to be sure I always convert the footage into an image sequence first.

[@cocboss3329]

Wonderful . best video

[@edinspiegel]

Thank you so much!

[@yuniorfrometa4749]

good advice bro, thanks

[@edinspiegel]

Happy you found it helpful!

[@OgatRamastef]

What exactly goes wrong when we use video files instead of img sequences to track?

[@edinspiegel]

Hey there! So - I've never enocuntered this issue personally but I have heard of cases where if you use a video file, your tracking points can become out of sync with the footage after closing and re-opening blender - this might have been a bug, or maybe it only happens if the fps doesnt match perfectly - I don't really know - and again I have never encountered this problem myself - I just thought I should mention it anyway. hope that helps

[@kaumalt8961]

legend thx

[@edinspiegel]

Haha! Glad you found It helpful!

[@jamesriley5057]

If the ground plane is a shadow catcher, it should also have the material that matches the video - so that when the object you superimposed is glossy metallic, you can see the ground in the reflections. Does anybody have an easy solution to this? A material that is a camera projection of a video?

[@nelzpicasa]

I still cant get the error low enough, is there a risk if the error is zero?

[@importon]

How do they not have an automatic feature detection and tracking tool yet?

[@AArmstrongC]

awesome tut!! thanks! What can I do if my footage is a slow 360 spin?? a good footage, but I don't have 8 points tracked along the whole clip

[@jamesriley5057]

I get an impulse for a few seconds, about halfway through my video clip. The video is very smooth, though. What would cause that?

[@edinspiegel]

I think there must be some track that's glitching out in that moment - maybe you have to manually observe all tracks and see which one is the problem. Let me know if that helps!

[@Avy2008]

How do I place the markers though?

[@edinspiegel]

Ctrl+ click where you want to place it

[@ULTRRRRRLLLLLGHT]

I've been trying to find footage like this, flying through a street. Any suggestions? I've tried pexels but cant find! Thanks!

[@ukmonk]

Thank you :)

[@oldragna5866]

1:48 try alt f4

[@jawsaiboi]

Why

[@atch300]

My solve error is good, but when I try to setup the tracking scene it’s always just so painfully wrong.

[@eangbun586]

it is good but seam to be rushtime at the end part of tutorial. please ,more detail

[@S-Lomar]

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[@edinspiegel]

I'm so glad you found it helpful!

[@PhilFlock]

3D tracking in Blender Is always a headache to me. It never properly works. So most of the time I just do everything CG

[@edinspiegel]

Well that's... unfortunate! What exactly are you struggling with? Is it just jittery? Or do you even get a solve?

[@PhilFlock]

@@edinspiegel jittery. I keep deleting tracks until I'm under 1 pixel solving error. It's still jittery here and there. If I delete too many I can't solve it anymore. So I live with the jitter and add more fake shake in after effects

[@edinspiegel]

@@PhilFlock Well that to is a tactic! - I don't know exactly what the problem could be - but some things come to mind: 1. the tracks you have glitch out on specific frames - this doesn't have to impact the solve error that much, but can be spotted when watching them closely through the entire clip 2. you're objects arent properly aligned with the ground - this could result in a lot of sliding 3. you don't have enough tracks close to the object you wan't to place in the scene maybe if you could send me a screenshot of the tracking graph I could diagnose further!

[@PhilFlock]

@@edinspiegel that'd be cool. Are you on Instagram

[@xdozgaming3496]

@@PhilFlockdid that help?

[@simplysurfing]

Too fast the screen actions are moving. Just knowing technical isnt enough to be a good teacher.

[@cropsi]

Кстати, думаю важно было бы упомянуть о Refine solution

[@Egeevis]

incredibly hard to watch

[@spearcy]

I think most "master" and "pro" trackers wouldn't start tracking without first changing correlation from .75 to .9 😉

[@edinspiegel]

You could do it that way, but I disagree honestly, I prefer to correct any errors that occur while tracking, rather than having to constantly re-keyframe a track that stopped even though it was still tracking the exact correct thing.

[@spearcy]

@@edinspiegel I guess if you're choosing your own trackers, correlation is less important than if you used detect features. I tend to use the latter approach and figure why not start with .9 because I can always back that up if I need more markers.

[@edinspiegel]

@@spearcy Yeah you are right, in that case a 0.9 correlation would be smart!

[@ThePianoman63]

First of all, slow down and stop flipping through pictures. It’s very annoying. If you want to learn how to make tutorials look at other tutorials and their comments. Good tutorials are when you can understand what the person is saying. You’ll get more people to watch your videos.

[@gregorybennings8718]

I agree 100%. Unfortunately most youtube tutorials are like this to cater to the ADHD crowd.

[@stephanenicault4939]

You have a slow down function in KZbin and you can play and replay the video so what else ?

[@gregorybennings8718]

@@stephanenicault4939You shouldn't have to slow down the video.

[@stephanenicault4939]

​@@gregorybennings8718 I always understand slowly. 😁

[@faisalhijazy]

If you have a problem your idiotic ass should read the description, it says In under 4 minutes, how do you expect him to explain it to you in under 4 minutes? Like there are other blender tutorials you should watch

[@albertomanuelochoafabre1538]

This video caused a big headache 😢, please more slow.

[@Jachii9]

Result came out horrible and absolutely unusable 👍

[@SamanNiknezhad]

your Video Editing is so Bad and i cant watch your video!

[@falloukd9]

Unfortunatly you use too much meme. Educational video shouldn't be distractive