From the course: Tracking in After Effects
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Tracking a surface - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Tracking in After Effects
Tracking a surface
- Now let's use Mocha AE to track the left, and right pages in this menu. Now before we begin, a word of advice, if you need to do this kind of work, it will be very helpful to place some markers on these blank menu pages before shooting. Even a faint one with a pencil can really help. This is going to yield a much more accurate result. But as you can see in a moment, Mocha can process this, even like this, without any tracker markers. Based on the existing pixels in this shot. So to apply Mocha, make sure the clip is selected, and go under the animation menu and choose Truck in Boris FX Mocha. Now in my case I already applied the effect so I'm not going to do it again, we don't need two copies of it, and if you did it just delete the second one, and make sure that you are starting fresh. And, now let's click on this button to launch the Mocha AE interface, and this should launch with the Essential workspace. If this is not the case on your machine, make sure to use the Essential…
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