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

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Point stabilize to put multiple layers in motion

Point stabilize to put multiple layers in motion - After Effects Tutorial

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

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Point stabilize to put multiple layers in motion

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- If you knew that you needed to add elements to this scene the natural choice would seem to be to 3D Camera Track it. And in fact, we do get a good 3D Camera Tracker result here. You can see all the points that are sticking really well. This is how we added a skateboard to the scene in another course. However, working that way could be combersome compared to the method that I'm going to show you here. Now, suppose I just want to make some adjustments to this one wall. Add some graffiti or, in this case, I think I'll take out some ribits. Well that would be a little bit complicated to do with 3D tracking. It's better oriented toward adding something that fits right onto a plane that's in the scene. It doesn't look like I could get a plane back there. But in any case, let me just show you a really straight forward way to solve my problem. So I'll get rid of the Camera Tracker. And instead I'm going to apply a stabilization track to this layer. So I'll say Stabilize Motion. And I want…

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