Chapter 8. Effective Motion Tracking

Effective Motion Tracking
 

Never mistake motion for action.

 
 --Ernest Hemingway

There is more that can be done with tracking than simply sampling the motion of one layer and applying it to another, even though that’s fundamentally what it does; because you can track in several different ways using a variety of points, the methods and applications go far beyond the obvious.

Native tracking possibilities have been further expanded in After Effects CS4 thanks to the licensing and inclusion of MochaAE from Imagineer Systems. Previously available as a third-party application, Mocha uses a fundamentally different approach (planar tracking) than ...

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