Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip
Philip Ebiner
Lesson Info
80. Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip
Lessons
Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates
06:22 2Understand the After Effects Workspace
05:39 3Starting a New Composition
08:15 4CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage
01:55 5Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline
05:08 6Using the Basic After Effects Tools
10:20Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors
03:04 8Working in the Timeline
10:59 9Layer Properties
08:57 10Quiz: After Effects Basics
11Animating in After Effects
07:35 12Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations
05:17 13Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral
04:21 14Using the Graph Editor
05:32 15Challenge - Bouncing Ball
01:01 16Solution - Bouncing Ball
13:00 17Quiz: Animating with Keyframes
18Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects
07:07 19Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths
06:24 20Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients
03:44 21Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag
05:54 22Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers
23Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear
08:37 24Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers
05:34 25Easily Reverse Complicated Animations
02:14 26Playing with Time
05:54 27Blend Modes
06:05 28Stabilize Shaky Footage
04:04 29CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts
00:46 30CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time
03:36 31CC 2019 Content Aware Fill
03:55 32CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates
08:37 33Quiz: Important After Effects Skills
34Intro to Motion Graphics Projects
00:53 35Clean Lower Third
09:22 36Logo Reveal Animation Bumper
13:25 37Colorful Transition
16:59 38Text with Mask Path Animation
10:05 39Text Bubble Animation
13:39 40Weather App 1
16:41 41Weather App 2
08:21 42Weather App 3
06:59 43Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects
44Flat Animation Challenge
02:47 45Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene
01:23 46Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect
15:02 47Removing Green Screen Background
06:46 48Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground
07:55 49Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
06:26 50Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect
06:07 51Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge
52Intro to 3D
10:04 53Swinging 3D Text Animation
12:11 54Build Out Your 3D Composition
05:47 55Animating Our 3D Scene
07:38 56Create Stars in After Effects
05:11 57Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)
58Using the Rotoscope Tool
06:55 59Cleaning Up Your Edges
07:21 60Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation
07:33 61Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool
62Easy Screen Replacement with Masks
09:56 63Replacing a Screen Version 2
13:49 64Screen Replacement with Mocha
07:13 65CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin
05:08 66Quiz: Rotoscoping
67Using the Puppet Pin Tool
04:33 68Animating Your Puppet Pins
03:04 69Animated Blinking Eyes
08:21 70Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds
07:10 71CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool
02:08 72Quiz: Screen Replacements
73Applying Text Animation Presets
05:59 74Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn
10:05 75Radial and Linear Wipes
03:20 76Color Correction in After Effects
03:33 77CC 2019 Update - Selective Color Adjustments
03:25 78Quiz: Puppet Tool Animations
79Motion Tracking Basics
09:51 80Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip
06:21 81Tracking Rotation and Scale
11:33 82Adding Details to Our Text
04:04 83Quiz: Motion Tracking
84Intro to Character Animations
01:31 85Design Your Character
14:32 86Rigging Your Character
02:50 87Animating Our Character
09:55 88Adding the Animated Background
09:12 89Adding Details to Character Movement
06:46 90Adding the Paper Cut Out Look
05:29 91Quiz: Character Animations
92Exporting an H264 File from After Effects
07:03 93Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background
04:03 94Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder
04:40 95CC 2018 Update - Exporting an Animated GIF from Adobe Media Encoder
02:14 96Create an Animated GIF from After Effects CC 2017
07:03 97Audio Tips for After Effects
02:19 98Working with Premiere Pro
05:54 99Quiz: After Effects Workflow & Tips
100Expressions Basics
07:24 101Animate a Flickering Light with Expressions
17:35 102Quiz: Expressions
103Conclusion
00:44 104Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip
now what do we do? We're going to use a null object. So go to layer new and click null object. We've used these in the past and this is basically an invisible object that we can attach properties too in our tracker panel, click edit target and make sure that it's applying to the null object that we created. So for you it might say Noel one for me it says Noel nine. Just because I've been working on this project file. So I've created a bunch of other Noel objects but make sure it's on the null object that you've created in this timeline. And then click Ok once you have that target selected, click apply Now before you do that or before I do that I'm going to show you that if I drop down our bird settings you have this new motion trackers drop down. If I drop that down, we see our tracker one that we've done. If I drop that down even more we see all of these key frames. These are key frames for the position and all kinds of things of this track point. Now if I click apply we're going to s...
ay apply dimensions to X and Y. Yes because I wanted to apply to the X axis and the Y axis. You'll notice the key frames turned red because in my no object. Now if I open that up under transform we have key frames applied to the position of this null object. Now nothing happens if I play through this that it you know, nothing is going to change. What can we do with the null object though? We can attach things to it. So if I go and I add some text tweet tweet little Bird and let's make sure that's a good size, I'm going to make it white using the Garman default font, don't use that that often put it right here and let's just go actually to the very beginning and position it where we want. Maybe we want it up here right now. Now if I play through this nothing happens. But if I go back to the very first frame and I parent the text layer to the null object using the pick whip tool and dragging to the whole nine or this drop down menu under parent. If you don't see that, just click the toggle switches modes button down here. Two no nine. Now whatever the null nine does happens to our text layer, that is pretty incredible. Right? Really cool. So what you can do if you had any sort of mistakes in the tracking, you can go in and we can move this around. So say I go to this frame and I thought oh it didn't move enough, I can move our not our text actually we want to move the knoll and we can do that just by clicking and dragging the position key frames. So let me just go crazy though and put it over here and you'll see what happens whoops, that frame goes all the way over here but then this next frame goes back to where it was tracked. So you gotta be careful, you gotta be subtle with it. If you move one frame you might have to move all of the frames after that a little bit um depending on how it was tracked, one thing I did too, make this look a little bit better was add a little bit of motion blur to the the text itself and enable it on our timeline right there, that motion blur just helps a little bit, makes it look a little bit more natural to me. So that's the basics of motion tracking. So you can imagine you can attach text to a train going across your frame or two, you know, really anything moving in your clip, we could also attach sort of effects, say we want to change the color of this bird food or this treat that's the bird is getting. What we can do is go up to Laird knew adjustment layer. Now if you don't really care about this, go ahead and move on to the next lesson. But I wanna just go through the visual effects side of things more than just the motion graphics side of things and then go into your effects and presets. Go to Hugh and saturation and add this hue saturation color correction to the adjustment layer. I'm going to put that right above our bird. Now let's change the hue and you'll notice that everything changes. Not just this, this little bird food. So what we want to do, right? Let's go back to the very beginning is create a mask around this adjustment layer. So I'll just go in here and I'm just doing this really quickly. But you know you can do this a little bit more slowly. If this was for a real project, go around here, let's press f to add some feathering and there's different ways to do this. This mask is just that easiest way, the quickest way. Now if we parent the adjustment layer to the null object and we play through this, this adjustment affects this area and it sticks with it. If it wasn't attached to the null object, it would just stay in that one area. Crazy. Right? So this is how you can, you know, you can imagine if you wanted to add like flames or something on someone's hands, you know someone's moving around and you attach the flames to the motion of the hand or the person running by or or if you want it to be on a house on caught on fire, you can attach it to the house. And even if your cameras moving the flames will be attached to that house. So let me just delete that because I don't really want that. And so this is the basics of motion tracking and the next lessons, we're going to get a little bit more in depth with the other versions, which include both rotation and scale tracking.
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