How to Track Live Video to a Postcard
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 39:35min
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from back in the archives of Aetuts+. Today we’ll look at a rockin’ post from Mathias Möhl. This tutorial was originally published in Jan 2009… Enjoy!
In this tutorial we continue exploring how to create some high-end techniques easily by using scripts to facilitate our workflow. Mathias Möhl teaches us how to track moving video to a postcard that was shot handheld with help from some scripts that he authored and are freely available. He also shows how to recover highlights from the tracked footage and apply them back over the moving video for a very convincing effect.
Tutorial
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Awesome tut! I was recently wondering how to do this for a commercial I might make.
nice
nice 1 will try this one out :)
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Regards from Venezuela
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Just pure brilliance!
Awsome tut and awsome accent
thx alot mate
Pretty nice effect! Thanks for the HD tut – it really helps. ;)
USE MOCHA )
Nice one..
Final result looks a bit shaky and bumpy
nice tutorial
thanks a lot
http://motionsociety.com/blog/
WOW. Man, I think this website is becoming the BEST After Effects training out there. Keep it up.
Wow awesome thank you
Very nice
Looks great! Will deffo give this a go..
Looks awesome! I’ll defiantly have to check it out soon.
Thanks man.
seems like there has to be an easier way but oh well.
I was wondering why he used the after effects corner pin instead of using mocha. Maybe someone can answer that for me.
read the comments… this is an older post before Mocha
lovely <3 !!
why does the tut have to so high res, I can’t wait it to buffer all day
buffers fine for me
Fantastic Tutorial!
Great use of the colorama filter, one of which I use on a daily basis!
Thank you for your time!
GREAT Tutorial, thank you very much!!!
Also nice song and good singer… but sounds a little bit, like shes singing not in tune with the music??!
You know……
I know many sites that is learning AE but this is special one
I really impressed with contents.
keep going this site is going to be #1.
I might be missing something here but what is used for the actual postcards? Just black pieces of card? Great tutorial just one problem, I like to follow along with the tutorial as it plays through but it’s difficult as the lower res version makes it difficult to see and when in full screen I have to keep ‘escaping’ to get back to AE as expose doesn’t allow me to keep the full screen open, hmmm, keep up the good work;)
@Ty: Yes, I just used some black paper and some transparent adhesive foil to make it more glossy. I think any glossy black surface should work.
Thanks Matias. Was great !!….
¡¡ Excelent !!
is there any chance you can supply me with that footage of the door slamming?
pleeeaaaasssseee lol
great tut by the way
message me over aim if that is possible it would be appreciated
aim:
o kiloski o
not only the door slamming but the movement from card to card
i have no footage to practice on :(
using mocha for ae is much easier, but nice idea.
thanks.
Yes, today, Mocha is definitely the way to do it. See this tutorial, for example:
http://www.mamoworld.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83%3Atutorial-mocha-corner-pin-part-1&catid=35%3Atutorials&Itemid=62
that tutorial was very helpful. Would recommend it to anyone who wants to get better with Mocha. I was wondering if for the next version of mocha import and tracker to mask if adding a restore default setting button to the interface would be possible.
If you want to reset any script, if is sufficient to close the script panel and restart it from the window menu.
So this is what it use to be like before MOCHA…
that being said… there are some very interesting aspects of the tutorial that bring to light some tweaks and tricks. For one thing… avoid shiney reflections in the original shoot… perhaps, use flat black cards?
Appreciate the tut…nice work.
Although the reflections make the tracking harder, in this shot I intentionally wanted to have them to use them in the final composite. If you don’t have them in the footage, it is much harder to add realistic reflections later.
Killer Work, Mathias! Thanks for the tips.
Great stuff, used mocha extremely well in my reel, please have a look and tell
Me wat you think?
He’s the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTho7qmNG6A
the singer was absolutely awful. Great tutorial though. very nice job.
i can’t download the video DAFAQ