Intro to Tracking

Continuing with PART THREE of our VFX basics series, Kaitlyn Yang from Alpha Studios introduces us to basic tracking using Adobe After Effects, using a very hungry Joey as an example.

Part 1, Intro to Basic Keying:

Part 2, Intro to Basic Rotoscoping:

If you'd like to ask us questions or follow along, come to the forums and grab this FREE DOWNLOAD of Kaitlyn's After Effects project file, as well as the footage, here:

And make sure to check out Kaitlyn's channel and website, Alpha Studios!

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[funnyciscoleon]

I loving this channel! I haven't filmed much (yet). But, the little I've learned; this channel has help a lot. Thanks RJFS!

[Bawbalicious]

If you're gonna upload in 1080p, make the desktop 1080p as well because her QHD or UHD screen makes all elements impossible for us to read.

[adamsmith]

Amazing! just found this channel and everything is gold so far!

[JBuenoVerse]

You guys are amazing! Thanks for all you videos! They’re teaching me lots!

[Szczepenson]

In 7:39 you "smooth" all the keyframes by putting easy-ease on them. But if the track was done frame-by-frame (every frame), that won't have any effect, because easy ease changes just the interpolation (curves between frames). To smooth frame-by-frame track it's beter to use smoother, or delete some of the keyframes and adjust them on curves. Or am I missing something?

[fbekakc]

This was a amazing tutorial, really wanted to know how to track!

[dilpreetsingh]

Thanks Kaitlyn its an amazing tutorial. Thanks a lot for sharing this.

[AstolfoCh]

Helped out a lot... It really did. Thank you so much!

[LallyOfTheValley]

For the manual tracking, i tend to skip a lot of frames if i know it's a more linear movement, then go back and add/ tweak the keyframes in between. Good video though, I'm a student so this will be useful to come back to if&when I forget!

[kaymackgee]

My fave part is Joey and his audio clip/edits :) bloop boop <3

[SethKHughes]

Thanks for sharing this! Great info for a newb like me.

[Seymour]

As usual good tutorial, i'm more familiar with this one, i wanted to know if you use DaVinci Resolve and if you do, do you only use it for color grading or do you use the tracker option which is pretty amazing .

[alloneword]

When would you use the track camera function?

[robdinning]

Can always count on Gryffindor...! And RJFS!

[idaperdana]

Is the resolution of original footage effecting the tracking process? Or monitor display ? For example Retina display on Mac is so sharp n crisp vs regular monitor ? Thanks

[cole]

Could you guys do an After Effects 3D tracking tutorial as well?

[VideoBaseie]

Great tutorial. Are they her real eyes or cool contacts?

[frederickkasanda]

This is cool, i don't need to go to film school now.

[SurajStudios]

Hey I live in uk n m just interested in working like you guys do

[Mrcoolagainbuzy]

When will more advance VFX Tutorials come with CG VFX Integration, Realistic Compositing and all that good stuff which freddiew used to do earlier and Corridor is doing now? We want to learn that, most of these basic tutorials are all over the internet but not those ones. Please Clint and Play Fight look into it.