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Planar tracking

Planar tracking - After Effects Tutorial

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Planar tracking

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- [Instructor] Welcome to After Effects Weekly. So good to have you here. You know why? Because over the next three weeks we are going to transform this drone shot that was captured by my friend Sophia Shell to something more interesting with an attractive world painting, as well as some sky replacement. Now this is what we are referring to as an invisible effect, which is what we are required to do from time to time. So I'm here to offer some advice and techniques that will help you to fake reality and create these kinds of shots faster and hopefully better. The first task here is to track the buildings and this is what I'll show you in this episode. For that we use Boris FX Mocha AE, a planner tracker that ships with After Effects. Now in case you don't know, planar tracking is a technique that was developed by Imagineer systems back in 2000 and it will allow you to track planes which are pattern of pixels moving…

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