Overview
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Learn two key visual effects skills, motion tracking and keying, in After Effects.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- The Tracker panel
- Software versions and exercise files
- Warp Stabilizer basics
- Warp Stabilizer advanced parameters
- Deleting bad track points (CC and later)
- Reversible Stabilization (CC and later)
- 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
- The Radio Waves effect
- Tracking the mountain
- Compositing the effect
- Perspective tracking overview
- Tracking to a corner pin
- Improving the composite
- Tracking with mocha AE
- Tracking for mocha shape
- Masking for mocha shape
- 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)
- Tracking dots
- Dealing with obscuration
- Cleaning up the stabilization
- Basic keying
- Refining the key
- Key Cleaner in AE CC
- Advanced Spill Suppression in AE CC
- Quizzler challenges
- Quizzler #1 solution: Stabilization plus masking
- Quizzler #2 solution: Stabilization plus tracking
- Quizzler #3 solution: Copying a camera's motion
- Tracking for multiple effect points
- Converting to ray-traced 3D (new in CS6)
- Legacy tracker advice
- Tracking interlaced sources
- Using garbage masks for keying
- Using the Rolling Shutter Repair feature (new in CS6)
