From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 12 Tracking and Keying

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Tracking in 3D (new in CS6)

Tracking in 3D (new in CS6) - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 12 Tracking and Keying

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Tracking in 3D (new in CS6)

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- [Narrator] In the next set of movies we're going to focus on the 3D camera tracker introduced in After Effects CS6. I've closed my other compositions. And if you have access to the exercise files, open up the composition CT_1-Poster*starter. The 3D camera tracker works differently than any other tracker we're discussing in this course. The way the other trackers work is they track some feature in your underlying footage, and animate a layer to follow that feature as it moves through the scene or across your composition panel. What the 3D camera tracker does, instead, is analyze multiple points in a scene and uses the movement of those points to reverse engineer where the camera originally was when it shot this footage, including how the camera moved through the scene. Then, rather than animating a layer, you place a layer at a fixed location and space that matches the 3D location of the actual features of your scene. And After Effects will animate a camera to move through this…

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