3D Camera Tracker problems in Adobe After Effects CC 2018

[aliamanuba]

I'm not yet fluent in English but i hope you understand to figure this bug out. so i was suppose to track the footage below but i saw a lot on YouTube about on the Effects Control on the 3D Camera Tracker effects that there was a status (Initializing, Percentage to be done) beside Cancel, mine doesn't have Status (even in CC 2017). Even it was stuck in that "Analyzing in background (step 1 of 2)" for more like 2 days with a 8.6 seconds footage.

[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

You are Camera Tracking a comp, not a movie. That will work if the comp contains a movie and no other elements that the tracker would interpret as elements in the scene. Without knowing a lot more about your workflow it's pretty hard to figure out what is going on in your project.

If you are new to After Effects I would strongly suggest that you take some time to take a look at the user guide and some tutorials that you can find by typing Camera Tracking in the Search Help field in the top right corner of After Effects. If you found the tutorial you are watching by just doing a search of the internet you may be watching a poorly done tutorial by an amateur. It is very important that you figure out if the folks doing the tutorials are experienced users. There are almost as many amateur tutorials with bad advice as there are good ones.

The other thing that could be causing a hang in analyzing the scene is a shot that will not camera track. A simple camera pan must be identified as a camera pan in the Camera Tracker, and shots with little or no fixed geometry in the scene are very difficult to analyze. Even the format of the original footage can cause problems.

Please give us more details. Make sure your system meets the minimum system requirements to run After Effects. Check out the user guide and let us know a little more about the shot you are trying to analyze.

[aliamanuba]

Here are my PC Specs anyway :3
I have my Lenovo Y510P
GPU 1 : NVIDIA Geforce GT 750M

GPU 2 : NVIDIA Geforce GT 750M
Memory : 16GB RAM

CPU : Intel Core i7 - 4700MQ

is there anything i should add more about my laptop, also thanks for the first correct answer :3

[Rameez_Khan]

Hi dots.official,

Rick is right. Does your comp have a video? Maybe you can try with a different piece of footage and see if that works.

is there anything i should add more about my laptop

After Effects uses the CPU more than the GPU and currently benefits from a fast clock-speed. There are some GPU accelerated effects and the After Effects team is working on adding more effects to support the GPU with each update. So, don't be surprised if the GPUs are not being used that much.

Thanks,

Rameez