Adobe After Effects Plane tracking?

Question

I have this footage that I downloaded from iStock. It's Flow chart and earth background footage. I wanted to add words similar to this footage in which words appears in blue boxes.

My idea is to create a null object, create motion tracking, attach tracking data to the null object, and then create text layers and link it to null object.

I tried several different motion tracking. I tried 3d motion tracking but it tracked too many points. I tried perspective corner pin tracking but there's a lot of contrast in the footage and the corners pins shake a bit as I analyze each frame. I would have to go through each frame to adjust each corner pin in order to prevent the shakiness. I tried planer tracking in mocha cc but I don't really understand how to get planer tracking to work.

How do you suggest I go about capturing the motion and linking the text layers to the motion/tracking data? I tried to find tutorials on youtube but I couldn't find the right one. Any help is appreciated.

when you say "3d motion tracking" do you mean the 3d camera tracker built in to ae? That would be the best way to do it, but "too many points" tells me you don't know how it works (the more the better). If you do mean the camera tracker I can guide you to the solution. — CRGreen

CRGreen CRGreen · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-06T23:34:29

The (arguably) best way to do this is to use the built-in 3D camera tracker. Once you get the solved camera ("create camera"), you find the correct plane using one of the solved tracker points (right-click on one of the points to bring up the menu), copy the position of the resulting null or solid and paste that into the layer you want (I'm assuming animated text), adjust the orientation and you're basically there. I just did it with the watermarked footage: http://www.crgreen.com/misc/stackoverflowStuff/flow-chart-and-earth-background-video-id166407540.htm_h.mp4

Feel free to ask questions.

Adobe After Effects Plane tracking?

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