Join Andy Needham for an in-depth discussion in this video Setting up a scene for export and setting the origin and ground plane, part of Creating a Show Open in After Effects and Cinema 4D.
…Now that we've solved our camera, we want to go…onto the next step in the workflow, and create a scene.…So we'll press the Create Scene button.…And the camera tracker will create a camera, and a camera's linked…to a null object, which you can think of as the main controller.…Which we'll come to later on.…So, if you want to, just twirl up these…setting here, because we're not going to need them anymore.…And we just want to focus on the 2D, 3D button.…I'm going to press this, and, this moves into our point cloud view.…
So, in the active camera, you can't really make much sense of it.…So you want to switch to one of the custom views.…So now, if we look in scrub through, we can see that the…motion of our camera has been, translated into this After Effects camera here.…But we want to, tell Camera Tracker, if we just zoom in.…It's got no way of knowing which way is up, which way…is down, all those kind of things that are useful for later on.…And you can see that the ground is kind of sloping downhill here.…
So we want to fix that, by setting a ground plane.…
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5/20/2014Want to create the same effect in Nuke? Check out Creating a Show Open in Nuke X and CINEMA 4D.
- Using CameraTracker to track a shot
- Solving the camera data

- Setting a ground plane

- Importing the logo
- Animating the logo with the inheritance effector
- Randomizing particle motion
- Lighting the scene
- Compositing in After Effects
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 5s
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Using the exercise files1m 50s
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1. Planning the Shot
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2. Tracking the Shot
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3. Adding a 3D Logo in CINEMA 4D
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Importing our logo2m 40s
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Randomizing particle motion3m 39s
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Lighting the scene6m 10s
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Finalizing the animation1m 21s
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4. Compositing in After Effects
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Compositing render passes4m 23s
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Color grading the shot3m 53s
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Exporting the final shot1m 7s
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 10s
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