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Nuno Caroco
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November 23, 2022
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Updated and improved 3D Camera Tracker

  • November 23, 2022
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After Effects built in camera tracker is really nice but now in 2022-23 starts to need a few necessary improvements. I want to share some suggestions into it for consideration:

- Lens Distortion Workflow: although having Optics Compensation effect, it does not exactly count as a proper workflow in the many cases we need to track and comp elements into footage that has different and sometimes extreme lens distortions.

- Detection of Masks: without the need to precompose, this would be an extra bonus if it detected also Track Mattes, or even have a set matte option built-in the effect itself.

- Add User Tracks: like for example the ones being generated via the tradicional 2D motion tracking panel do help estimation and help the auto tracks to be more accurate.

- Point cloud generation: This can be used to visualize and assist in setting ground planes and creating objects.
- Manually set the error threshold: This already kind of exists in the 2D tracker options with the confidence percentage, so in the same logic of process and workflow, makes all sense being included in the 3D tracker too.

What do you guys think?