Tracking in After Effects by Eran Stern

On August 24, 2020

Release date:2019, August 13

Author:Eran Stern

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Tracking is an art and a science. It involves locating a point or object in your footage as it moves from frame to frame. The resulting data can be used to stabilize footage or solve camera movement. After Effects provides many powerful tracking tools, allowing you to focus on the creative rather than the technical aspects of your job. This project-based course reviews all the different methods for tracking inside After Effects: one- and two-point tracking, mask tracking, camera tracking, facial tracking, and planner tracking in Mocha AE. Instructor Eran Stern explains which scenario each tool is best suited for, and helps you use your tracking data for specific purposes—effects, rotoscoping, compositing, and more—and render the results.
Topics include:
Motion tracking
One-point tracking
Applying tracking data to effects
Mask tracking with the After Effects Mask Tracker
Two-point tracking
Warp stabilization for tracking
Planner tracking
3D camera tracking

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0 Introduction
001 The art of tracking
002 What you should know
003 Using the exercise files

1 Getting Starting with Motion Tracking
004 What is motion tracking_
005 Common problems and solutions

2 Preparation for Comp
006 Project brief
007 Preparing for compositing and VFX

3 One Point Tracking
008 The Tracker panel
009 Options settings
010 Tracking and stabilizing motion
011 Applying tracking data
012 Tracking obscured objects
013 Tracking outside the frame
014 Using nulls for tracking data
015 Compositing foreground elements
016 Applying tracking data to effects