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Camera tracking - Blender Tutorial

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Camera tracking

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- [Instructor] For this next chapter, I want to talk about how to bring in video into Blender and manipulate it or play with it. In particular, for this video, I want to show you how to take a video and then recreate the scene inside of Blender. To start, we want to hit Control + N and switch to VFX. Now, you're going to want some footage to track. Something that has good lighting, that has a lot of edges and good points to track and something that isn't too flat. If you have access to the exercise files, I've included one called LinkedIn_Carpinteria_Porch. So go ahead and click Open and click on the MP4 that's been included. And then just go to Open Clip. That will go ahead and open this video for you to manipulate. Now, there's a lot to take inside this tracking window so let's briefly go over it. At the top left, we have where our tracking points will show up and we'll see how good our tracks look up here. At the…

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