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Tracking features with the CameraTracker, from The Foundry

Tracking features with the CameraTracker, from The Foundry - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: VFX Techniques: Building Replacement with After Effects

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Tracking features with the CameraTracker, from The Foundry

We've spent some time building up the BuildStreet composite in anticipation of adding a new building. We are now ready to move on and prepare some 3D tracking data. Now we do have a 3D tracker set up in the first composite using the built-in camera tracker inside After Effects. However, we're going to use a new plug -in to create some new data, this is written by the Foundry. So let me go ahead and set the composition first and then we'll talk about that. I'll make a new comp, make sure it's the same resolution, frame rate, and the duration as the previous ones, I am going to call this FoundryCameraTracker, click OK and then drop a new version of the street into this. The effect is under Effect> The Foundry>CameraTracker. Now the camera tracker is a plug-in which does not come with the standard version of After Effects. However you can download a trial to give it a try or of course you can purchase it. Now if you don't have access to this or don't want to install it, you can actually…

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