From the course: After Effects Guru: Integrating Type into Video Volume 2

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Tracking the text to the motion of the video

Tracking the text to the motion of the video - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Guru: Integrating Type into Video Volume 2

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Tracking the text to the motion of the video

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- To make the type connect better to the video, we need to match the movement of both elements. We can either stabilize the clip to make it appear as a locked down shot or we can keep the common emotion by dragging the footage and then attach the title to the motion. I think the second option will work better here because it will keep the shot more natural and less planned. I'm going to play the clip for you so you can get a sense that this clip has a little bit of a kind of movement, almost like a hand held, very gentle move. And in order to integrate the text better into this scene we need to track the motion and then connect both of them together. This will help us in the future when we'll need to add even more type to this composition. Now the problem is that we've already applied the Time Remapping option to the video. And currently inside After Effects if you are going to select a clip and then try to track it. And in this case, I've already made sure that the Tracker window is…

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