After Effects Apprentice: 12 Tracking and Keying
3h 55mIntermediate2016-11-10
Authors
Chris Meyer
Principle at Crish Design
Trish Meyer
Principle at Crish Design, an award-winning graphic design studio
Course details
Explore how to use the motion tracker and stabilizer built into After Effects and shows how to handle a variety of shots. Author Chris Meyer leads a quick tour of the third-party software mocha and demonstrates the workflow for The Foundry's KEYLIGHT, both bundled with After Effects. The course also covers tracking a greenscreen shot with a handheld camera and replacing its background.
Learning objectives
Understanding motion stabilization and keying
Performing a track
Applying tracking to effects
Keying with KEYLIGHT
Replacing images
Improving the composite
Garbage masking
Dealing with interlaced footage
Learning objectives
Understanding motion stabilization and keying
Performing a track
Applying tracking to effects
Keying with KEYLIGHT
Replacing images
Improving the composite
Garbage masking
Dealing with interlaced footage
Skills covered
Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeLimited SeriesAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- The Tracker panel
- Software versions and exercise files
Warp Stabilizer
- Warp Stabilizer basics
- Warp Stabilizer advanced parameters
- Deleting bad track points (CC and later)
- Reversible Stabilization (CC and later)
Sidebars
- Legacy tracker advice
- Tracking interlaced sources
- Using garbage masks for keying
- Using the Rolling Shutter Repair feature (new in CS6)
- Point-Based Tracking and Stabilization
- Setting up a stabilization
- Track points explained
Performing a track
- Applying a stabilization
- Cleaning up the results of a stabilization
- Performing a motion track
Applying the results
- Tracking and Effects
- The Radio Waves effect
- Tracking the mountain
- Compositing the effect
- Perspective Tracking
- Perspective tracking overview
Tracking to a corner pin
- Improving the composite
- Tracking with mocha AE
- Tracking for mocha shape
- Masking for mocha shape
- The 3D Camera Tracker
Tracking in 3D (new in CS6)
- Creating 3D objects (new in CS6)
- Hanging a poster (new in CS6)
- Adding text (new in CS6)
Using shadow catchers (new in CS6)
- Dealing with Obscuration
- Tracking dots
- Dealing with obscuration
- Cleaning up the stabilization
Using Keylight
- Basic keying
- Refining the key
- Key Cleaner in AE CC
- Advanced Spill Suppression in AE CC
Quizzlers
- Quizzler challenges
- Quizzler #1 solution - Stabilization plus masking
Quizzler #2 solution - Stabilization plus tracking
- Quizzler #3 solution - Copying a camera's motion
- Idea Corner
- Tracking for multiple effect points
- Converting to ray-traced 3D (new in CS6)