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

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Solve and adjust with Camera Tracker

Solve and adjust with Camera Tracker - After Effects Tutorial

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

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Solve and adjust with Camera Tracker

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- Now look at this scene, which when we shot it was intended to be a planar track using mocha AE, but turned out to work a lot more cleanly using Camera Tracker. The reason for this is probably that our subject travels right across the area that we're tracking. And that is a big challenge in mocha AE but really no challenge at all for Camera Tracker. The reason for that is that he's only occupying a small percentage of the frame. So let's give it a whirl. I'll let Camera Tracker do its automated work analyzing the scene. As you know there's nothing really to do at this stage except wait for the analysis to take place. And within a few seconds we'll have a number of track points. Once the camera's solved. Now once I have a solution, there are a couple of things I look at. One if just how well do the points appear to be sticking? And to back that up, I can twirl down Advanced, and take a look at the average error. Now here, it's at .90 pixels, anything below 1.0 is a very good average…

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