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[Luigi]

^Thats awesome.

[Masato]

Here's my first attempt at motion tracking in after effects. It took less than 30 minutes to do 350 frames :D. Positioning, scaling and rotating 350 frames would have taken me hours in photoshop or gimp.

WOW that is inspiring as hell

Can you give us some cliffnotes how it works? How many keyframe points do you have to plot in? Or can the software just track the face?

How much does it do for you?

Amazing. I am SOLD. Gonna play with After FX the first good chance I get. I can DL it for 10 bones a month on this Creative Cloud business

If we all got comfortable with this stuff we would all be shoop MONSTERS. (we'd also probably get all our utilities cut/house repossessed/wives leave us, lol - which would actually leave more time for shooping if you think about it :D)

[Empty Emp]

You basically select a reference point that you want to track. You set an inner box which contains the section of the video that you want to track, and an outer box which sets the area that AE will search in the next frame for the best match of the inner box. If you want to do rotation and/or scaling, you set two reference points. I set the two points to track Beyonce's eyes. You can either let AE analyze the whole video or go frame by frame an make adjustments along the way. I tried letting AE do the whole video, but for that video it kept losing track of one or both eyes. For a higher quality video or if the face was larger on the screen, it probably would have worked better. Going frame by frame wasn't that bad though because I only had to reposition the trackers maybe once every 10 frames.

I've only learned how to do 2 things in AE so far, and I think I'm hooked.