From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization
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Solve problems with nulls and parenting - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization
Solve problems with nulls and parenting
- One thing that comes up all the time with tracking is that you'll have more than one set of data. One of the reasons that I like applying that data to a null is that, when you have it applied that way, you are free to not only parent your motion to that null so you can move the other layer around as much as you want, the child layer, but then you can make the parent null itself a child of another null, and that is the solution and the easiest way to combine two sets of motion. So here, I have the Track Matte following the first set of motion data but then I have that red square there that is the combination with TrackerViz of several different motion tracks. That's not applied. So to apply it, there are just a couple of simple rules. First of all, you should definitely have two completely distinct sets of motion data and you need to have one frame where one ends and the other one begins, and you need to park your current Time Indicator there when you set parenting, so nothing moves…
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