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benji7
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March 5, 2025
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Trying to Figure Out Best Way to Fix 2D Tracking

  • March 5, 2025
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Hello, 

I am creating titles for a moving camera 360 pan. Its a house that is under construction and I am tracking boards around to attach titles to. Since its just a slow pan, I am tracking the boards, usually a couple distinct points and then applying only the x axis. But when I play it, the titles don't always move smoothly with the boards. Sometimes, they shift left and right slightly. I started trying to fix it one keyframe at a time, but I have a feeling there has to be a better way, like a way to space the x positions more evenly within a range would be helpful. I've tried a bunch of different things, but nothing seems to make it super smooth. I thought I'd see what other people do for this kind of thing. Things I've tried:

 

-Selecting a range and then moving x position, but moves all to the same exact position.

-Finding two parts of the footage where the text is where I want then deleting all keyframes between them  but finding out this really makes the text move around since now it doesn't have the keyframes between to keep it in line with the board I'm attaching to.

-I tried searching for this but I think I'm not wording it in a way to get a good Youtube about it.

 

2 replies

ShiveringCactus
Community Expert
ShiveringCactusCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 6, 2025

You might be able to enhance your footage for a better track.  Eran Stern recently shared a tutorial on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzcwDqDuRC0

 

Alternatively, I'd be really tempted with something like this to use Photoshop to generate a spherical map of the room from stills taken on the camera.  Then use CC Environment to turn this into 360 sphere inside After Effects.  The benefit of this approach is you have complete control over the movement with an AE camera, and so any titles placed in 3D space will respond correctly with no tracking to worry about.

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benji7Author
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March 7, 2025

Thanks ShiveringCactus! I'll actually try creating a high pass filter using Eran Stern's video and see if that helps. I never thought of enhancing the details in that way but makes sense. I am interested in learning to make a spherical map but that needs to be stills of the space correct? Unfortunately, they did not take stills of the space. Just the one 360 rotation.

nishu_kush
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nishu_kushCommunity Manager
Community Manager
March 6, 2025

Thanks for writing in, benji7.

 

Does the frame rate of the comp and the footage match? Is there a specific section of the footage where the issue happens? It'd be great if you could share a screen recording that shows the problem. That'll help us understand it better.

We're here to help.


Thanks,
Nishu

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benji7Author
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March 7, 2025

I'm not working on that project today, but when I open it next, I'll double check. It should be the same since I created the comp from the original footage. Unfortunately, I don't believe I can share it but I'll talk to my boss and see what she thinks.

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