How To Track Footage That Is Out Of Focus

How To Track Footage That Is Out Of Focus

on Dec 15th 2011 with 6 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects, Mocha for AE, and VCP's Optical Flares (optional)
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 18:22 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this tutorial we are going to take a look at a simple, but interesting idea. The main point will be to show you how to work with footage that is out of focus making if difficult to track. After we track it we are going to attach the camera interface elements and fake some depth of field to create the illusion that they are floating in space and shift in and out of focus like the rest of the scene.

Tutorial

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File size: 73.2 MB

Stefan Surmabojov is Stefoto on Videohive
 
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Discussion 6 Comments

  1. Volkan Akgül says:
    December 15, 2011 at 11:12 am

    Great effects,thanks.

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  2. glutenfree4u says:
    December 15, 2011 at 12:10 pm

    cool final product video, but I found 1 thing you could improve on… you filmed a mirror so you could see the camera (nice way to do it if you only have 1 camera!) but since it’s a mirror your footage is backwards, (look at the canon logo on the camera) you could fix that by flipping the footage over in AE.
    other than that it was a really neat effect!

    Reply
  3. Cave Johnson says:
    December 19, 2011 at 6:24 am

    Cave Johnson here, and I present to you the latest camera from Aperture Science!

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  4. njhlove says:
    January 3, 2012 at 1:38 am

    Nice Tuts..:D
    Have a nice day !

    Reply
  5. umar says:
    January 8, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    It’s really great one…you provided very useful tutorials. I just want to say thank you.

    Reply
  6. Mark says:
    April 21, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    Hi guys. Really neat tutorial. Do any of you perhaps know where I can download the icons being used in this tutorial?

    Reply

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