From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization

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Import and integrate a third-party 3D track

Import and integrate a third-party 3D track - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization

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Import and integrate a third-party 3D track

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- In another lesson I mentioned that it's standard in professional visual effects work to 3D track a scene using third-party software and then export it for use in After Effects. Now I can't take you through a third-party app and show you how to do the whole process, but Brian Morse who created a Synthized course at Lynda.com, was kind enough to 3D track this scene and export the result so that I could show you how to work with that once you receive it. So the purpose of this lesson is both to show you what to expect when you're working with the 3D track and also to help you manage problems that might come up with that. So to begin I'm going to import his motion track. Now the track should be exported as an After Effects project and this is compatible with most if not all third-party trackers. So I'll just choose the scene there. You see I got an error, Synthized distortion is a specialized plug in that's distributed only by Synthize and comes with their software. You can't actually…

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