In this section, we will focus on getting up to speed creating visual effects for your shots. This will help you take another step toward developing Hollywood feature-film quality in your work. The 3D camera tracker in After Effects is one of the most powerful features that the software has. It allows you to add new objects in the 3D space that match the movement and perspective of your footage. You can composite something into a scene that was never there.
Imagine you're a visual effects artist working on a film. The director asks you to record footage and add a new red car to the scene to help to tell the story. The goal of this VFX shot is to seamlessly add a photographic element to existing footage.
Let's add a red car into the scene. The first thing we need to do is import our footage and analyze it, taking a look at the footage and its attributes, including the frame rate. Our footage is 1,920 x 1,080 with a 29.97 fps frame rate. We want to match all...