Camera tracking stopped working SOLVED

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
February 11, 2018
2 replies
2462 views

Here's a video showing what's wrong. For some reason, I can't get the tracking points or the target to show up. I should mention that when I click "render track points", they do show up, but if I try to select anything, it just moves the clip around.

After Effects camera tracking NOT WORKING. - YouTube

IF YOU ARE HAVING THIS PROBLEM:

View>Show Layer Controls

This topic has been closed for replies.

C

Customer_MM

Participating Frequently

Could you please post what the solution was?

R

Rick Gerard

Community Expert

I have a suggestion for you that will speed up your production time. Every time you want to do a Camera Tracking project make it a separate composition. You'll use fewer resources, be able to edit the composite together a lot easier. AE is really not an editing app, it's designed for making shots. Long compositions with hundreds of layers can be a mess and if anything goes wrong it takes hours to fix things. Keeping your comps short and limiting them to a single shot or a short sequence may sound like more work but it's really a lot more efficient in the long run. This advice comes from a guy that has been making films for more than 40 years and recently completed an hour-long project with more than 500 shots in it and 457 of those shots were composites I did in After Effects as individual compositions.

A

apersonthingyOFAuthor

Participant

Thank you for the advice. If it wasn't already apparent, I am a bit of an after effects noobie, and my methods are almost certainly not the most efficient.

I feel much more at home in Premiere pro which I do use for bigger projects, however, the project I'm currently working on is only 30 seconds long or so, with lots of effects that Premiere isn't capable of. For this project, it's more convenient to use AE Exclusively.

R

Rick Gerard

Community Expert

I did a TV spot a while ago with 9 shots. Every shot was a composite, every shot was a comp. Every shot had about 10 extra frames at the head and tail. Every shot was rendered then the final edit was done in Premiere Pro, the audio was polished and the final audio effects were edited in Audition using Dynamic Link, then the color grade was polished in Premiere Pro and the deliverables were rendered with 3 different types of audio tracks for different markets. The project would not be as polished if I had worked entirely in After Effects and I could not have met the client specifications if I had not processed 3 different types of audio tracks in Premiere Pro.

There is a lot to learn when you dive into filmmaking. The best advice I can give you is to always look for a more efficient way to get the job done. You can go broke in a hurry if you are stuck in a rut with one workflow.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded