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After Effects Apprentice: 12 Tracking and Keying

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Adobe After Effects Courses VFX Courses Visual Effects Courses Motion Tracking Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn two key visual effects skills, motion tracking and keying, in After Effects.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • The Tracker panel
  • Software versions and exercise files
1. Warp Stabilizer
  • Warp Stabilizer basics
  • Warp Stabilizer advanced parameters
  • Deleting bad track points (CC and later)
  • Reversible Stabilization (CC and later)
2. Point-Based Tracking and Stabilization
  • Setting up a stabilization
  • Track points explained
  • Performing a track
  • Applying a stabilization
  • Cleaning up the results of a stabilization
  • Performing a motion track
  • Applying the results
3. Tracking and Effects
  • The Radio Waves effect
  • Tracking the mountain
  • Compositing the effect
4. Perspective Tracking
  • Perspective tracking overview
  • Tracking to a corner pin
  • Improving the composite
  • Tracking with mocha AE
  • Tracking for mocha shape
  • Masking for mocha shape
5. The 3D Camera Tracker
  • Tracking in 3D (new in CS6)
  • Creating 3D objects (new in CS6)
  • Hanging a poster (new in CS6)
  • Adding text (new in CS6)
  • Using shadow catchers (new in CS6)
6. Dealing with Obscuration
  • Tracking dots
  • Dealing with obscuration
  • Cleaning up the stabilization
7. Using Keylight
  • Basic keying
  • Refining the key
  • Key Cleaner in AE CC
  • Advanced Spill Suppression in AE CC
8. Quizzlers
  • Quizzler challenges
  • Quizzler #1 solution: Stabilization plus masking
  • Quizzler #2 solution: Stabilization plus tracking
  • Quizzler #3 solution: Copying a camera's motion
9. Idea Corner
  • Tracking for multiple effect points
  • Converting to ray-traced 3D (new in CS6)
10. Sidebars
  • Legacy tracker advice
  • Tracking interlaced sources
  • Using garbage masks for keying
  • Using the Rolling Shutter Repair feature (new in CS6)

Taught by

Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer

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