From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization
Join today to access over 22,700 courses taught by industry experts.
Lock an element for roto - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization
Lock an element for roto
- In this lesson, I'll show you one of the most common and useful applications of motion tracking and visual effects, locking off an element or scene, in order to rotoscope it more easily. Here you can see this hat that has been very nicely roto'd to remove it from the background scene, so it can sit it in front of where we're moving our guy there. This was achieved by locking off the hat and performing the roto in place. And, as you can see, there are far fewer key frames required than there were to actually track the object, so in other words, we've saved ourselves a lot of chasing the element around by doing it this way. Okay, so let's work right in this comp. I'll just go ahead and delete the track that I had before, to start over. And reset its anchor point. And of course, when I do that, I need to reset position as well. I can also turn off the track mat that I set. Just keeping this mat around, because I'm not going to start the roto over from scratch. So, here then is just the…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.