The Digital Matte Painting Handbook

Adding a Video Billboard

Next, you’ll add a video billboard to the side of a building. Find David_HenryMorph.mov in the Chapter 14 DVD materials. Drag it into the Project panel, and from there into the Viewer panel for the FutureNYC_Track comp. Doing so creates a new layer in the Timeline named David_HenryMorph.mov. Click the 3D Layer box to make the layer 3D. Refer back to the CityFutureNYC comp to find the location of the billboard. Return to the FutureNYC_Track comp and, from the Active Camera view, select the null closest to where the billboard will be placed: null_Tracker89Shape. Delete the keyframes on the null, and select and copy the Position attribute. Paste the position onto David_HenryMorph.mov. The movie jumps close to the correct ...