Basic 3D Camera Tracking Tutorial | After Effects CC 2017

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In this tutorial I'll show you 3 practical ways you can use the 3D Camera Tracker in After Effects. This is an awesome tool Adobe integrated into After Effects. Here I'll show you how to blur out signs and licenses plates. Also the 3D camera tracker makes it easy to add "Augmented Reality" elements to any scene. We'll go through a simple use case in this tutorial for that. And very quickly I'll show you how to add text & shadows into a scene.

3D Tracking is essential to learn for any visual effects compositor. Learning the 3D Camera Tracker in After Effects is a great starting point for learning about 3D cameras & 3D space.

• For this tutorial I use Adobe After Effects CC 2017. No plugins are required.

Video tutorial by Max Bard @magicbard

KEYS TO SUCCESS:

• Use the 3D Camera Tracker in the Effects & Presets to track your scene.
• Turn the motion blur on for all your layers if you have shaky footage.
• Hold down the Option/ALT key on your keyboard to replace solids with layers or video footage.

Please leave a like if this helped you and if you have any questions or want to learn a certain effect please let me know in the comments section and I'll get to it ASAP.

[Amadaref]

Love the detailed description on every click thanks for the tutorial 👌🏽

[YAKNASTYTHATNILLA]

THNXXX FOR THE VIDEO MY NILLA... GREAT AND EASY

[arbihosapian]

I think this is one of the most clear and awesome tutorials I have seen on Youtube! Thank you so much

[seantaylor]

Glad that I stumbled onto your work. Will be checking out more.

[tolgasayan]

Perfect Tutorial.Very glad that I found this channel..Regards from Turkey...

[YAKNASTYTHATNILLA]

question...at 7:34 around there... my graph will not let me click the yellow square and pull it so it slows it down...why is this or and how can you explain this to me

[VideoProfessional]

I didn't even know you could do that, until now!

[pocho]

i love this tutoriel even after 3 years . thanks for the detail . love u bro

[robertyeh]

you sir just earnt yourself a subscriber. i was stuck trying to figure out how to blur a licence plate that looked nice and this is the perfect tut for it. thanks a ton

[vfxved]

Awesome tutorial! Really helpful! Thank you! And I would like to see another tutorial on how to use Mocha AE

[SeLFlo]

very nice and interactive tutorial well done

[LittleLoyal]

Great tutorial, super clear and straight to the point

[MORTONRICK]

Thanks. Really nice tutorial. Easy to understand. One thing.... you mentioned hold the shift and hit some key... maybe the T for transparency? Don't remember. But you don't have to hold the shift to get that. Just hit the key. Thanks again. Great job. I've just subscribed.

[mueeduljahan]

Thanks Buddy, it was the exact same think I was looking for. Helped in my video editing project.

[HippieDom]

good stuff. thanks for making it simple.

[TestaFilms]

Useful tut bro and thanks for the shout out!

[vinhdo]

This guy " MagicBard" will be legend !

[farinanatasa]

thanks for the tutorial..I really need it for my project

[deniscoq]

Thank you for this super-clear tutorial!

[rohankedar]

awesome bro. make something on rotoscoping or cleanup