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If you zoom into your track points, you will notice that each of them consists of 2 rectangles! You should now see 2 track points overlayed onto your footage, connected by a white line. Since we also want to track the rotation of Walter’s head, make sure the ‘Rotation’ checkbox is ticked.

Scroll to a time position in your clip where Walter’s head is fully in frame, make sure the footage layer is selected and click on the ‘Track Motion’ button in the Tracker window. To get started with motion tracking in After Effects, open the Tracker window by going toĪ small tool window containing all the controls necessary for tracking your footage will appear on the screen. It is MUCH easier to remove a tracking marker than it is to track an indistinct object!įor this tutorial, we are going to track Walter’s head as he walks through the shot and attach a halo to it :) After Effects Motion Tracker Controls You can make motion tracking easier by adding tape markers or other helpers to your actors or objects to make them easier to track. A person dressed in black walking in front of a dark sky will likely be hard to track.

If you want to do motion tracking in a scene, make sure the element you want to track stands out cleanly against the background while shooting your footage. This allows you to do things like have blood stains stick to walls during a moving shot, add a halo or other effect to follow your actor, erase objects from your scene and much much more. You can then use this tracking data to control other layers in your composition and, for example, create visual effect elements and have them follow your tracked object. It allows you to track the motion of moving elements in your footage and extract information about their position, rotation and scaling. Motion tracking in itself is not a visual effect, but an essential tool to help you create visual effects. In this tutorial, besides watching Walter and The Devil fight it out, you will learn all about the concepts and the practical application of Motion Tracking! I finally got around to cover a topic that I’ve wanted to do for a while now: motion tracking in After Effects :)