From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
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Creating nulls from tracking points
From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
Creating nulls from tracking points
As well as tracking planes, like you can see here, that represented by this target, After Effects 3D camera tracker can also just track individual points. And when I'm working with CINEMA 4D and After Effects, I find it quite useful to after I've saved my ground plane and origin point, as I did with the target to also save some additional points as nulls. So that when I go to CINEMA 4D, I can import those nulls and use them for positioning elements in the scene. We're in chapter09_03, and if you want to follow along, you can open up that project. And in here, I've created this track. And from that track, I've created a 3D camera, a Shadow Catcher layer and a light. But I also have some text elements that I want to composite within the scene in CINEMA 4D. So what I am going to do is just make my track points a little bit bigger and explain what I want to do. Now, I've got a couple of Text layers, and I want to composite them on the sides of the buildings, as if they are new on the…
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3D camera tracking in After Effects6m 3s
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Creating nulls from tracking points2m 40s
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Adjusting the Shadow Catcher for CINEMA 4D3m 31s
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Importing a CINEMA 4D file into a scene4m 21s
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Exporting CINEMA 4D files from After Effects comps3m 42s
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Merging objects from CINEMA 4D files3m 23s
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Manually adjusting scenes between apps4m 2s
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