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Best and easiest way to remove tracking markers from green screen video
You can do this quite easily without content-aware fill or anything like it. I'd tackle this by doing the following:
create a rough shape for each tracking-point (the color doesn't matter)
track each ...
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Cropping a Video based on a motion track
Here's one way to do it. I'll assume you have basic motion tracking knowledge already for the sake of brevity.
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Turn on 3D space for your footage layer.
Track the player in your ...
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Tracking a person
I come from a Hollywood visual effects background, and I was a matchmove lead for a couple of shows. For the above process mentioned, Vfx facilities do it all the time.
Like Poor mentioned, it is ...
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How to do a camera projection in maya?
To project a video instead of a photo:
convert your video to an image sequence (with Nuke, AfterFX, Premiere, whatever...)
load it into your file node, then click on 'Use Image Sequence'
scroll in ...
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Which is better for tracking?
1080p60 will give better temporal resolution, which is key for tracking details that move within the scene. If the scene is ridiculously simple, such as if the only object moving at all is a Mac ...
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Tracking in Premiere Pro: Keep an object in a zoomed-in video in place
You'll need to use AfterEffects to effectively track camera or object motion.
There are tutorials on YouTube, my advice is do the tracking last, so you only track the footage frames used in your ...
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Track Object in Premiere Pro / After Effects
Right click on your footage layer (either in the comp window or the timeline) and choose track motion from the context menu.
That will open up the layer in the layer viewer
and add a motion tracker ...
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How to realistically add planet in the sky using 3d camera tracker and avoid overlapping with objects in the foreground?
If the blades are rotating, and the camera is moving, you need to create a good foreground layer with anything the planet is supposed to be obscured by.
So from the image it looks like it will be ...
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How can I subtly blur a car plate?
Replace it with a fictional plate?
Alternatively, track the four corners of the plate where there's just solid background colour.
Apply each of the four tracks to a null (call them Null 1, Null 2, etc)...
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How can I link a mask path to a track null?
In After Effects CC, masks can be made into tracking masks. Right click the mask and you should see a context menu with Tracking Mask. Select it and the mask can be tracked to the video it is applied ...
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Motion capture and 3D model formats
You are a little confused in the MoCap process.
Most mocap is captured live on either a soundstage or direct to your computer with a webcam/video camera with specialized software. This software ...
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How to handle extreme dynamic range in a vocalist?
So I am a singer with a huge dynamic range. I think it is useful to let the singer hear the problem (i.e. the clipping or etc.) and then to ask her/him to adjust distance to the mic for particularly ...
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Tracking in After Effects
A few things to try:
Make sure your camera footage is at the same frames per second as your comp.
Instead of selecting a single track point, try drawing a lassoo around several points. You'll get a ...
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Setting track points from Mocha to a solid makes it very small
Unbelievable,
Right after I asked the question I found the solution online.
After tracking in Mocha make sure you click the "Align selected surfaces" button.
I had to search for it but here it is:
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Is it possible to track continue motion tracking on another point in After Effects CC?
When you put a track point to a feature, you can notice the white crosshair in the middle of the tracking marker. That is the tracking point. If your tracked feature is covered by something else or ...
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Drawing a line over video that is camera tracked
Masks do not render in after effects, the lines and boxes are UI elements of the program. To render a mask you have to apply an effect such as the stroke effect to the layer, using the mask as the ...
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How to realistically add planet in the sky using 3d camera tracker and avoid overlapping with objects in the foreground?
You need to add a copy of your video (so you have two layers, only the bottom one needs the planet on it). Rotoscope the top layer - when you create your mask the only thing you will see is the bit of ...
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Effect that detects white object throughout entire video and blurs it, without manually running tracking mask?
Not really. Color detection, when you’re looking for a white object is really the same thing as what’s known as a “luma key.” So, you can try that, but you’ll quickly see why the VFX industry prefers ...
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Parent Pick Whip Not Showed On Effect Transform Keyframing
Expressions aren't parented. They use the same kind of widget but it's not the one in the parent column.
You need to enable expressions on the property by alt-clicking the stopwatch. Now you'll see ...
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Good technique to superimpose face into moving character in AfterEffects?
There is some substantial work that would go in an effect like that.
You'd have to first track the face of the slowed-down singer in 3D-space and apply a mesh to it, which sticks perfectly to his ...
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Logo replacement in screen recording
The easiest solution would be to record the presentation without the logo altogether using open broadcast, fraps or some screen recorder. You can then animate the logo in After Effects from within a ...
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Track and replace a t-shirt design on a moving, distorted garment
Nuke's Smart Vector toolset is built for this exact problem. I see you tagged After Effects, but you did not specify that After Effects is needed. I've done this a few times before and Mocha is your ...
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Why hasn't "still image camera matching" technology been used for tracking moving shots?
You're describing augmented reality.
Try something like Carrot Weather's AR Mode or Memoji?
The answer to your question is "Many vendors have implemented 'Augmented Reality' or AR, which works ...
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Moving clip with green screen
Leave the color out and make a png out of it.
Then, create a sequenz which has the length of the bar you want.
Insert as many filmframes as you like.
Now simply draw masks around one frame each.
Put ...
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How can I do Camera Tracking of turnaround Camera Shot?
You can check PFTrack.
Also there are another good trackers options like Boujou, Syntheyes, Mocha Pro, Match mover, 3D Equializer ...
NukeX has also a good tracking suite.
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Live Video object tracking
OpenCV is a good repository of computer vision resources. An example of how to select and track a region of interest is given here: https://docs.opencv.org/3.4.0/d2/d0a/...
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DaVinci Resolve: Track with points outside of a window
The button to invert the power window is next to the tool that you used to create the selection. You're using the pen tool in this case, but the same is true for ellipses, rectangles, gradients, etc. ...
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Track Multiple Moving Objects Simultaneously
After effects can definitely track 2D motion and allow you to export x,y coordinate pairs, but it does not work in realtime. You would have to import the videos, then track each object (and correct ...
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Warp points binding in After Effects
If you haven't found it yet, the Puppet tool likely what you're looking for. You will create specific anchor points and you can keyframe their motion.
There's several tutorials out there for the ...
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After Effects: Strange motion tracking problem
some possibilities:
You are trying to track a very general area. Try to track a smaller
area with well differentiated colors (maybe another footage).
You are using CC 2014. There are bugs that have ...
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