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Xanita
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September 30, 2022
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Track moves in 3D space after import from Google Earth Studio

  • September 30, 2022
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Hello,

I tried creating an animated track in ae on a map, as shown in this video. But, when I import the track and position it correctly in a certain perspective, it doesn't move with the camera but instead moves and turns wildly, often going out of view. The track points also don't stay put as they should. What might I have done wrong?

I attached a video to show what I mean.

Thanks for the help!

Xanita

 

P.S. I know, my performance isn't the best :).

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Correct answer Mylenium

Well, everything you have is soem arbitrary flat plane. This will never solve correctly in 3D and for the 2D parts you should split the layer and use conventional 2D tracking, anyway. The tutorial isn't really that great and what likely makes it worse is that you picked a region where auntie Google doesn't have enough info and thus the export produces bad data. You realyl should approach this completely different and do most of the stuff in 2D, then hand-animate a camera after you've turned your pre-comped layers into a 3D layer. All this Google Earth stuff is of no use here, so there's no point even troubling yourself with those export procedures and messed up camera.

 

Mylenium

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September 30, 2022

Well, everything you have is soem arbitrary flat plane. This will never solve correctly in 3D and for the 2D parts you should split the layer and use conventional 2D tracking, anyway. The tutorial isn't really that great and what likely makes it worse is that you picked a region where auntie Google doesn't have enough info and thus the export produces bad data. You realyl should approach this completely different and do most of the stuff in 2D, then hand-animate a camera after you've turned your pre-comped layers into a 3D layer. All this Google Earth stuff is of no use here, so there's no point even troubling yourself with those export procedures and messed up camera.

 

Mylenium

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