From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Compositing and Effects

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Fake camera track

Fake camera track - After Effects Tutorial

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Fake camera track

- In this movie I'll show you how to match your graphic video into a computer screen. But this time we'll take a different approach. Instead of tracking the content to the screen, we'll create a camera tracking shot of both elements together. So we'll start with an open frame and zoom in until the content of the screen will fill the frame. This controlled motion track can add interest and also help to tell a better story. So let us see what we have here. This is myself and I'm using my wife's workstation with permission. And what I'm doing here is basically working inside Photoshop, so I'm Photoshoping. But I really want you to think that I'm working inside After Effects. So we have another clip over here After Effecting. And this is a screen record of one of the project which we saw in the first chapter. So we want to make sure that we are going to place it just at the edge of the corner of this screen. But note that this screen also has a reflection and of course by that I mean the…

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