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MaskTracker+

AE Mask Tracker - handling foreground elements

In this quick-tip tutorial you learn how to do a track with the After Effects mask tracker if the object you want to track is partially hidden by a foreground element.

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Efficient rotoscoping using the mask tracker with few keyframes

If you use the After Effects mask tracker for rotoscoping, it generates a keyframe for your mask on each frame. This makes later tweaking of the mask very complicated. Learn in 1 minute how to solve this problem with MaskTracker+.
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MaskTracker+ in depth tutorial

Chapters

  1. tracking with the mask tracker
  2. moving layers
  3. corner pin
  4. moving masks
  5. stabilized precomp (no skew & perspective)
  6. stabilized precomp (with skew and perspective)

Final Result

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New Tool MaskTracker+

Since the release of AE CC, After Effects includes the Mask Tracker which is a powerful planar tracker with just one drawback: Except for moving masks, you cannot do anything with it. This changes with our new product MaskTracker+.

MaskTracker+ uses the After Effects Mask Tracker to move layers, do corner pins, stabilize shaky footage,...

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How to change the tracking region over time in MaskTracker+

Description

In this tutorial we create a simple film title by tracking some texts and a picture on a wall. For the tracking we use the After Effects Mask Tracker in combination with MaskTracker+.

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MaskTracker+ solutions for the constant vertex count issue

Chapters

  1. the problem: masks with changing vertex count
  2. solution 1 - don't track perspective
  3. solution 2 - use masks with straight edges
  4. solution 3 - retrack only problematic frames with other mask

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Stabilize Shaky Footage with MaskTracker+

Chapters

  1. tracking with the mask tracker
  2. eliminate movement completely
  3. smooth movement
  4. removing transparent borders (the easy way)
  5. removing transparent borders (the clever way)

Final Result

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