From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization
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Track a plane with mocha AE - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization
Track a plane with mocha AE
- Getting back to the scene we've been looking at throughout the course, the parasol that flies through the end of the scene covering up the guys we're rotoing out here, looks like an excellent candidate for planar tracking with mocha AE. Let's look at why that is and how to put it into play here. So if you think of mocha AE or mocha at all, you probably think of tracking a screen for replacement. And in fact there's an entire course you can do on screen replacement with mocha AE. I'm covering mocha AE in one lesson here, so I'm going to just show you a really straightforward way to do something that no other tracking tools within After Effects could do with this shot. So the umbrella is a plane, even though it's not a flat screen. It's a curved surface but it does maintain a consistent characteristic that we can track with mocha. Let me just show you how that works. There's only one way to get into mocha AE and that's by choosing Track in mocha AE with the source layer selected from…
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