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Tracking to a corner pin

Tracking to a corner pin - After Effects Tutorial

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

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Tracking to a corner pin

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In the previous movie, we set up a composition, select the footage that we wish to track and applied the tracker to it. Now we need to set it up for a perspective track. Underneath Track Type, you have a few additional choices we haven't played with. You've already worked with Stabilize and you've already worked with Transform, Raw just creates plain old tracking data that you're going to later copy and paste or use expressions to assign to other parameters, but the two of interest to us now are Parallel corner pin and Perspective corner pin. Parallel corner pin assumes you have a parallelogram with the top and bottom edges of what you're trying to track are supposed to say parallel to each other as well as the left and right sides. Perspective corner pins as well maybe camera is skewed and you can't count on those edges being exactly parallel. If you go ahead and look at this monitor over here, these points are closer to each other than these points, so this line is not parallel to…

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