Camera Tracking with Blender for Beginners! (VFX Tutorial)

Learn how to motion track any footage with Blender in order to place 3d elements into it. This tutorial is aimed at beginners so I explain everything step by step for you to follow along.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:15 Motion Tracking with Blender
12:55 Scene Setup
18:06 Lighting & Shading
23:06 Rendering & Compositing
27:14 Animation Rendering
28:11 Renderro Cloud Computer
28:50 Outro

Video Instructor: Nik Kottmann

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[divyamjha]

By far, the most relevant Motion Tracking tutorial for Blender! Thank you, it was much needed!

[JorgeZac]

I love how and 29 min turns into a all night video... <3

[markmilorov]

Dude thank you so much. Despite the tutorial being a bit outdated I still managed to get an amazing result.

For anyone that is stuck at the composition part, you don't need the denoise node anymore because the default denoising works just as well.

[MetaKombat]

I am doing sports motion graphics. Thanks for making the correct way to track instead of just spamming detect features and filtering later. I have tried several times w detect features and it just is always slightly off. Very concise tutorial. Super hard finding digestible blender content with so many tools left to learn. Golden video, made it look simple.

[justinmalone]

I had to stop 3 minutes in and say, thank you for doing a great tutorial. Thanks for assuming we don't know a bunch of things. I appreciate your speed and level of detail.

[dvfxprofessor]

This is really a great and didactically well-done tutorial. I added this to my module briefing for my students. You forgot the camera lens distortion workflow. The tracker can solve the camera lens distortion and in your compositing, the "Undistortion" node will use the calculated data. You just need to add the node again at the end of the compositing tree and set it to "distort". This will distort the composed result back to the original plate and adds this distortion to your rendered layers.

[preethamitalopaul]

Out of all tutorials I’ve watched on blender motion tracking, this one is the best. Very detailed explanation and can follow very well step by step. Thank you for the efforts. Cheers

[adambrewster]

Wish I'd found this earlier. It's the most straightforward description of how to do tracking efficiently that I've found and I learned a couple of really useful things despite having been doing this for several years. No one ever tells you that tracking blobs is best - rather than corners. And that re-adjusting the search area to get the track to the end is so helpful. Thank you Nik!

[fadieneni]

Truly the clearest tracking tutorial! Thank you so much!

[genofelice]

This was a great tutorial. Just starting out in Blender I find that I get lost on most tutorials because steps are skipped. This tutorial was easy to follow because every step was clearly explained. Great job !!

[mehdibelhous]

Amazingly explained. You won't find a better blender motion tracking explainer video elsewhere!

[weaponcode]

I followed like 100 tutorials on youtube, and this is the only one that make all relevant things and more simple way I never saw, bless you my bro, this helped me so much

[juanfxblender]

Finally I learned how to do camera tracking with Blender, now seems very easy, this is the best tutorial I ever found to learn how to use camera tracking, thanks!!!!

[quannguyen]

Finally a motion tracking tutorial I can actually understand and apply! Thanks a ton, my friend! This is rock!

[MertBert]

4:27 You should never start at the start of a clip to motion track it, but at the middle tracking both forwards and backwards. This is true in most cases, as it leaves less room for a failed track

[Jezerypamela]

After watching many videos regarding this topic, this one takes the cake

[HisRep]

Thanks a lot, this guide is great especially because in the end, all the necessary info to actually render the video is inculded, which most videos lack. Thanks a lot!

[TwilightDemon]

Out of all the tutorials I watched yours was the easiest and simplest to understand and you went into more depth of how it works and how you can adjust the points to your liking 10/10 Good Job

[hertz]

A very basic and detailed tutorial I really like it thank you, bro. It saved me.

[RedzwanulHuq]

Thanks a lot. Would love to watch a similar video on compositing architectural building with drone footage.