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VR motion tracking workflow

VR motion tracking workflow - After Effects Tutorial

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VR motion tracking workflow

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- [Instructor] So far, we've only worked with 360 video captured from cameras that haven't moved their position. In this movie, we'll work with footage that does have a moving camera, we'll see how to stabilize it as well as motion tracking element into our scene. So here in this composition I've got a clip of a camera flying through this desert and you can see just how wobbly it is, our horizons bouncing up and down, and ultimately that's going to be pretty jarring for the end viewer as they see it inside of their VR headset. So, we need to stabilize this. To do that we'll come over here to the VR Comp Editor and I'll add in a 3D Edit. You'll notice here that we have a dialog box asking us which composition we want to use as the source? I want to select my desert comp and I know it's a width of 1920, so we'll match that here for the comp width, I'll hit Add 3D Edit and after effects will do the necessary work to…

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