From the course: Compositing an Alien Portal in NUKE

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Camera tracking

Camera tracking

- So we've got our CameraTracking preps all done, so now we're ready to do the actual camera tracking. If you do not have NUKEX, you cannot perform the CameraTracker steps in this video. But you can use the results of it in the following videos. We'll switch to the Property Bin where the CameraTracker Property Panel is open, and on the Settings tab, don't forget, we have 300 points. I'm going to turn off Preview Features. Go to the CameraTracker tab. The first thing we need to do is to set the Range. I'm going to set it to Custom. I only want to track from Frame 25 to the end, because beginning of the clip, this pillar is blocking everything and it's kind of making for a difficult camera track. So we're going to just pick it up right where we need it from Frame 25 on. Alright, next, Camera Motion, Free Camera, that's correct. Lens Distortion, No Lens Distortion, that's wrong. We've not done an undistort on this plate, so I have to say Unknown Lens, because I don't really know what the…

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