From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization

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Plan for a track to be interrupted

Plan for a track to be interrupted - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization

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Plan for a track to be interrupted

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- As you're aware, point tracking requires a point. This is often a corner or other edge, and the section of the couch that we're interested in to cover up the action behind doesn't really have those. Well, at least it doesn't seem to, but in this lesson I'm going to show you how many different candidates there actually are for trackable points. Now, if we just want to track the couch, there's a common mistake that gets made, and that is to just set the tracker put it somewhere over, I don't know, the couch, and start tracking. And, it's bouncing all over the place, and the next step is to just simply give up. But the issue is AfterEffects is looking for contrast by default. Now if we go into the options we can see that by default it looks for luminance. We can also track via RGB and saturation, but luminance is the most visible and reliable. We're looking for a pattern of light and dark in this center square that is unique from what appears in the outer square. Pretty simple, right?…

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