This is the best motion tracking tutorial I have watched so far. You managed to explain and demonstrate it in under 10 minutes, and you even included the files for us to try it ourselves! Thank you so much.
That was so clear and easy to follow. You explain every step of the process, properly covering what the settings do instead of just hurriedly clicking on them. Thank you for this. Much appreciated.
The first motion tracker TUTORIAL I have watched so far. Many people just show how "good" they are by doing and clicking fast. You are really teaching! Congratulations! 👏👏
you explain like blender guru in detail....i have seen other youtuber just explaining as if we know the particular feature already / or they talk really fast which is difficult to understand sometime....Thanks ,very good tutorial
Thank you! Easy, simple, effective! This isn't something I've ever done in almost 10 years doing Blender but I need it now. One thing I found a bit confusing was when you said the tracks "turn red" It's not the red trails, it's the red boxes. I spent like 20 minutes re-watching that part until it clicked, lol. Also, to get it to render or show in render view you have to enable film transparency. That's one thing you didn't mention.
Sir, this video didn't just help in some way. It's brilliant made! Thank you very much. I didn't expect something that clearly. - I hope it will work for me too. 🙂
Great tutorial mate, used it alongside a few others on how to do reflections, and jerry rigged some masks up + watery reflection catcher, made a tower on a lake shot. Your tutorial was the easiest to follow that I ended up needed. Really well put together Twan, thank you!!!
Thanks! Tracking in AfterEffect is indeed way easier. Recently found a free method of transferring the aftereffects tracking data into blender, thinking of making the next video about that ;)
Blender looks fun to track in. I have only ever used Boujou and Maya to get this stuff done.. Need to look more into Blender.. still more complicated than Boujou but i like that its an all-in-one package software.
hi thx for the video. I still have a problem. So, when i am at 6:40, then i can't chose eves or cycles. If i use that one, then everything except the 3d thing disappears!!! If i want to render it i also only see the 3d model and not the video :((
Thank you very much for this material. I dream of making a 3D object in Reality Capture of the bridge model and then inserting it into the drone video where this bridge is to be built.
hey, i have a question, when i insert an asset and go to camera view, why does the background only appear on the background plane, and the background becomes round, and is it normal for the camera to move even if there is no keyframe?, im having trouble determining the floor, origin, and the axis, thank u for the great video
Awesome tutorial, but when I went to render, my background was just black and only my 3D objects were visible and not the footage. The file I'm using already had some compositing nodes setup. Also for some reason not all the tracking ported to the camera. About 3/4 the way it just stops tracking. I did track the entire footage but it didn't port to the camera.
That is, in order to make a VFX video, I will need to output a render of sequence frames from Blender and then add these frames to the video by compositing?
for some reason when i add the plane and set as floor it is tracked, but at a totally wrong rotation. The y axis acts like the z axis, anyone know how to solve this?
Amazing! But I still having problems when i Try to select 3 trackings as floor. My layout doesent shows the vertices and doesent matchs the scene. How can I solve this problem?
At 4:54 after solving, I see no crosshairs in Blender 4.2 How do I enable those crosshairs to be seen? I saw them before in my previous projects, but not now.
how do i make the ground transparent but capturing the shadow and the color bounce of my model, because in my video the floor is a little bit reflective (the shadow should be alittle bit red)
Okay, so here's one of many places I"m getting tripped up: how do I place the 3D object where I want it in the scene? When I add it in, it automatically goes into a certain spot and moves very nicely in tandem with the footage. When I try and move it to another spot, suddenly all the tracking is off and inaccurate. How can I keep the tracking on point but set the object where it needs to be? Also, my version (3.5) has no controls for the shadow catcher. I chalk that up to Blender's programmers being constitutionally incapable of leaving anything where it was in the previous version. I don't know if they realize how infuriating that rapidly gets.
In the motion tracking workspace, after your track, did you press "set as background" and "setup tracking scene"? To use a shadow catcher (even in Blender 3.5) you'll need to make sure that you're in the cycles render engine.
@@twanoligschlaeger Yes. I did everything every tutorial says to do. After lots of fiddling, I got it to work, though regrettably I don't remember what exactly made the difference, which is unfortunate, since it's still not exactly where it should be altitude-wise, so I'll need to do it again. Thanks on the shadow catcher issue, though. Blender's programmers seem to love making things needlessly difficult.
@Corn_Pone_Flicks if you really need precise positioning. You can add tracking markers as empties. Once that is done you can select the marker in the layout screen then press Shift S, select cursor to selected. That will place the cursor exactly where the marker is, then when you add anything to the scene it will be added at that position. Keep in mind that it's origin point is what gets centered with the 3d cursor so may have to move up or down but you will have a reference position of the 3d cursor.
Really good video and explanation!! I did the camera tracking by choosing the 8 markers manually, do you know why the angles of the background are a little rounded? Only by watching through the camera, during the motion tracking they are sharp. The error rate is 0.11pixels
I get that it's easier and more convenient to have sharp frames with minimal motion blur and perhaps deep depth of field. But what do you if you're doing vfx for an action motion picture? Shutter is 1/48s and dof can be very shallow. What to do? :)
Any way to resize the 3 panels you used in the video mine are super small I can drag to the left but that just makes the options bigger which I can already see however the column options on the left are super small
Why do you add an object in cycles and you see the shadow without doing anything, but I create a sphere and it doesn't cast a shadow? I have done all the steps with Cycles and Shadow Catcher and it doesn't work... There is a jump when you go to Cycles and add the light that I can't understand.
I have a strange error. When tracking, it works perfectly, extremely low error and visually it matches PERFECTLY in the viewport. However, when i go to the CYCLES RENDER preview, it is extremely glitchy and my object in the scene jumps around as if poorly tracked. Reapeating: There is NO issue with the tracking, no issue with the viewport showing a great tracking with the object in it. HOWEVER, when I go to the CYCLES rendering preview, the track looks very bad. Any ideas?
I don't understand why every time you select the points for the floor it's very crooked or the camera is the one that gets twisted, I love to learn these things but it's very complicated
It's a bit frustrating that such an `easy` scene with full of easy-to-track patterns, grids and dots, perfect rectangle shapes, etc. is so hard for Blender to track. You click so many buttons and adjust many parameters but it still can't track a single point from clip start to end. I think this is unacceptable for a pro software like this. I expected a better tracking performance.
@@benomotions No. I won't be thankful for a program that doesn't help me do the job just because it's free. Your logic is wrong. There are TONS of free apps out there that can't do it's job. Are you thankful for those too?
Do you need a high shutterspeed? Can't you just have Blender add motion blur to your additional elements you're comping in? I know Marvel is still shooting with slow shutter/motion blur when they add digital extensions or cg characters.
you need a highshutter speed otherwise your footage has motion blur and a video with motion blur isn't trackable. if you want to add motion blur after tracking in the edit, thats no problem.
This is the best motion tracking tutorial I have watched so far. You managed to explain and demonstrate it in under 10 minutes, and you even included the files for us to try it ourselves! Thank you so much.
Thank for your very kind comment! Best of luck with your 3d work!
@@twanoligschlaegerhow do you select multiple trackers at once when you where setting the floor it’s just selecting one PLZ HELP
@@RyanBozo7 shift click
Thank you so much. Just what I was looking for!
I'm happy to hear that my video helped you! Thank you so much for the donation, wow!
That was so clear and easy to follow. You explain every step of the process, properly covering what the settings do instead of just hurriedly clicking on them. Thank you for this. Much appreciated.
As a motion graphic designer for many years, I still inspire by you! Thanks Mate.
The first motion tracker TUTORIAL I have watched so far. Many people just show how "good" they are by doing and clicking fast. You are really teaching! Congratulations! 👏👏
3 hours frustration solved....thanx buddy.
you explain like blender guru in detail....i have seen other youtuber just explaining as if we know the particular feature already / or they talk really fast which is difficult to understand sometime....Thanks ,very good tutorial
no motion blur straight to the point ... many don't say the reason why are they doing but you said ..... am so glad
Great video, straight to the point, very clear, no nonsense, no stupid memes. Thank you!
This video saved me so much for my exam assignment for VFX. I just couldn't get the motion tracking working; Thannks!
Good luck with your exam!
WHAT A WONDERFUL VIDEO!!! Thank you,keep it up! You are a wonderful teacher!))
Thank you very much for the kind comment! Best of luck with your 3D motion tracking!
Thank you! Easy, simple, effective! This isn't something I've ever done in almost 10 years doing Blender but I need it now.
One thing I found a bit confusing was when you said the tracks "turn red"
It's not the red trails, it's the red boxes. I spent like 20 minutes re-watching that part until it clicked, lol. Also, to get it to render or show in render view you have to enable film transparency. That's one thing you didn't mention.
best tracking tutorial ever.
Your explanation is excellent and easy to follow. Thanq for uploading this video.
Even though i'm not fluently in english (listening) i could understand you, perfect tutorial, thank you!
Nice bro don't stop this channel ever you are awesome ❤
Thanks for the encouraging words dude!
This is my first motion tracking tutorial. 😊 (I subbed)
its a outstanding Motion Tracking workflow.
Thank you for your kind comment! Best of luck with your 3D motion tracking!
THANKYOU SOO MUCH, It really helped me🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Sir, this video didn't just help in some way. It's brilliant made! Thank you very much. I didn't expect something that clearly. - I hope it will work for me too. 🙂
Very nice easy to follow tutorial. Thank you.
After 10 bad tutorials i finaly maneged it to work!!
Quick tip was also very valuable, thanks for this video :)
Fantastic tutorial, thanks so much for sharing it !
watched over 10 tracking videos but only this video helped me to understand what i need to know, lol
I love this tutorial🔥
thank you for the kind comment!
Ganz Wunderbar und viel Erfolg für ihre Ideen 👍
Great tutorial mate, used it alongside a few others on how to do reflections, and jerry rigged some masks up + watery reflection catcher, made a tower on a lake shot. Your tutorial was the easiest to follow that I ended up needed. Really well put together Twan, thank you!!!
tysm this is the best tutorial i could find.
yeah this is why I track in after effects 😂. Good tutorial by the way
Thanks! Tracking in AfterEffect is indeed way easier. Recently found a free method of transferring the aftereffects tracking data into blender, thinking of making the next video about that ;)
@@twanoligschlaeger yeah I have come across that free script as well. Can't wait for your tutorial!
as soon as I hit the floor button my scene went somwhere. cant find my cube or floor anywhere. thoughts?
same for me
Blender looks fun to track in. I have only ever used Boujou and Maya to get this stuff done.. Need to look more into Blender.. still more complicated than Boujou but i like that its an all-in-one package software.
This is the best one , you also told how to clean hugh error tracks and make new ones too, which otger Dont tell
Great tutorial, thanks !
thanks for this video, it fr works perfectly, keep doin tutorials please❤️
Thank you Brother . very good video .
thanks bro this is the easy way to motion track
In future you should play with the alpha to get a more realistic looking shadow, but overall a very great tutorial :)
Wonderful tutorial
Het is een goed tutorial, Ik hoop daar te komen met mijn videomontages ^_^
Great stuff. Thank you thank you!
hi thx for the video. I still have a problem. So, when i am at 6:40, then i can't chose eves or cycles. If i use that one, then everything except the 3d thing disappears!!! If i want to render it i also only see the 3d model and not the video :((
i have the same problem, any solution??
Thank you very much for this material. I dream of making a 3D object in Reality Capture of the bridge model and then inserting it into the drone video where this bridge is to be built.
wow. brilliant. it helped me soo much ❤❤❤
Do you have a full course of blender? pls let me know, thanks
Thankyou sooooo much😍😍😍
thankyou it was very easy to understand
can we motion track our own project which is already saved in pc????
yes, same formula:)
hey, i have a question, when i insert an asset and go to camera view, why does the background only appear on the background plane, and the background becomes round, and is it normal for the camera to move even if there is no keyframe?, im having trouble determining the floor, origin, and the axis, thank u for the great video
Awesome tutorial, but when I went to render, my background was just black and only my 3D objects were visible and not the footage. The file I'm using already had some compositing nodes setup. Also for some reason not all the tracking ported to the camera. About 3/4 the way it just stops tracking. I did track the entire footage but it didn't port to the camera.
4:55 what if you dont have a floor in like a drone shot in a city???
The best tutotial i have seen , but how do you render your animation with your background video
my scene is moving instead the camera "woops, fixed"
the cause is that you did object tracking instead of camera tracking 😅
@@chidiebere2376💀
@@chidiebere2376how to do object tracking
So stupid 😂😂😂😂
@@theappleman2741 yeah mr.know it all, but i'll no waste my time with "APPLE MAN"
That is, in order to make a VFX video, I will need to output a render of sequence frames from Blender and then add these frames to the video by compositing?
every time i try to orient the floor it says, "three tracks with bundles are needed to orient the floor"
Me too. Please help!
Namaste from India🙏🙏🙏
great job
Hello, very helpful video. I am facing a problem regarding in viewport shading mode. it does not show the video as background. Please help.
thank you!
It's very helpfull video❤❤
Good video man keep it up
Thank you for the kind comment! Best of luck with your 3D work!
for some reason when i add the plane and set as floor it is tracked, but at a totally wrong rotation. The y axis acts like the z axis, anyone know how to solve this?
10:49 Why i can't finish it until the video ends? The tracker detector stopped for only a few seconds
Amazing! But I still having problems when i Try to select 3 trackings as floor. My layout doesent shows the vertices and doesent matchs the scene. How can I solve this problem?
very nice, thank you
Is there a way to track VR360 video, so you can add objects into the scene?
At 4:54 after solving, I see no crosshairs in Blender 4.2 How do I enable those crosshairs to be seen? I saw them before in my previous projects, but not now.
how do i make the ground transparent but capturing the shadow and the color bounce of my model, because in my video the floor is a little bit reflective (the shadow should be alittle bit red)
look up "blender shadow catcher"
Okay, so here's one of many places I"m getting tripped up: how do I place the 3D object where I want it in the scene? When I add it in, it automatically goes into a certain spot and moves very nicely in tandem with the footage. When I try and move it to another spot, suddenly all the tracking is off and inaccurate. How can I keep the tracking on point but set the object where it needs to be?
Also, my version (3.5) has no controls for the shadow catcher. I chalk that up to Blender's programmers being constitutionally incapable of leaving anything where it was in the previous version. I don't know if they realize how infuriating that rapidly gets.
In the motion tracking workspace, after your track, did you press "set as background" and "setup tracking scene"?
To use a shadow catcher (even in Blender 3.5) you'll need to make sure that you're in the cycles render engine.
@@twanoligschlaeger Yes. I did everything every tutorial says to do. After lots of fiddling, I got it to work, though regrettably I don't remember what exactly made the difference, which is unfortunate, since it's still not exactly where it should be altitude-wise, so I'll need to do it again.
Thanks on the shadow catcher issue, though. Blender's programmers seem to love making things needlessly difficult.
@Corn_Pone_Flicks if you really need precise positioning. You can add tracking markers as empties. Once that is done you can select the marker in the layout screen then press Shift S, select cursor to selected. That will place the cursor exactly where the marker is, then when you add anything to the scene it will be added at that position. Keep in mind that it's origin point is what gets centered with the 3d cursor so may have to move up or down but you will have a reference position of the 3d cursor.
whick key is pressed to select multi track point ?
why does nobody do this? its so simple the way this guy explains it
thank you 🔥
how do I select multiple tracking markers
Really good video and explanation!! I did the camera tracking by choosing the 8 markers manually, do you know why the angles of the background are a little rounded? Only by watching through the camera, during the motion tracking they are sharp. The error rate is 0.11pixels
Thank you! I''m not sure what you mean with the angles being rounded?
@@twanoligschlaeger he's talking about the fisheye effect on your camera
same issue here
It’s good but when I render the background is not rendering
Thank you!
I did it and I placed a block, but how do I adjust the color and texture of the block through the camera view without ruining anything?
I get that it's easier and more convenient to have sharp frames with minimal motion blur and perhaps deep depth of field. But what do you if you're doing vfx for an action motion picture? Shutter is 1/48s and dof can be very shallow. What to do? :)
how do you select multiple trackers at once when you where setting the floor it’s just selecting one PLZ HELP
try holding shift while clicking on them. or just drag a selection box over them by holding left click
@@twanoligschlaegernow it says it needs three tracks with bundles
Any way to resize the 3 panels you used in the video mine are super small I can drag to the left but that just makes the options bigger which I can already see however the column options on the left are super small
On the frame rate part, what about stop motion videos? Should it match the stop motion frame rate or the video file frame rate?
I think i am late but i have an doubt if i need to add motion track from particular scene how to do it
can u slove my problem...my Problem is that my object and my floor is only able to render. I can't see the background in final render. What to do?
Why do you add an object in cycles and you see the shadow without doing anything, but I create a sphere and it doesn't cast a shadow? I have done all the steps with Cycles and Shadow Catcher and it doesn't work... There is a jump when you go to Cycles and add the light that I can't understand.
I have a strange error.
When tracking, it works perfectly, extremely low error and visually it matches PERFECTLY in the viewport. However, when i go to the CYCLES RENDER preview, it is extremely glitchy and my object in the scene jumps around as if poorly tracked.
Reapeating: There is NO issue with the tracking, no issue with the viewport showing a great tracking with the object in it. HOWEVER, when I go to the CYCLES rendering preview, the track looks very bad. Any ideas?
Muchas gracias
I don't understand why every time you select the points for the floor it's very crooked or the camera is the one that gets twisted, I love to learn these things but it's very complicated
i dont know why your tracking prosece is not working in my PC but when I use geotracker its work.
super useful
I accidentally moved in the area of blender with where the objects are, the background went away and I have no reference now. Help?
When i select the floor trackers it gives me flipped scene what to do
hello please help once i switch to render viewport , the background disappears although it has 100% opacity
How do you render the video footage? It doesn't seem to be doing that automatically
Doesnt the frame rate of the video say 25fps in the footage settings?
Everything is working well and the tutorial is very useful. But After rendering I can't see shadow
did you add the shadow catcher plane + are you in cycles?
It's a bit frustrating that such an `easy` scene with full of easy-to-track patterns, grids and dots, perfect rectangle shapes, etc. is so hard for Blender to track. You click so many buttons and adjust many parameters but it still can't track a single point from clip start to end. I think this is unacceptable for a pro software like this. I expected a better tracking performance.
Blender is not a professional software lol
The people who produce professional work with it, would disagree with you @@35pen61
This is a free program you should be thankful even for this
@@benomotions No. I won't be thankful for a program that doesn't help me do the job just because it's free. Your logic is wrong.
There are TONS of free apps out there that can't do it's job. Are you thankful for those too?
@@vpryt18 womp womp
My setup tracking scene option isnt working
Do you need a high shutterspeed? Can't you just have Blender add motion blur to your additional elements you're comping in? I know Marvel is still shooting with slow shutter/motion blur when they add digital extensions or cg characters.
you need a highshutter speed otherwise your footage has motion blur and a video with motion blur isn't trackable. if you want to add motion blur after tracking in the edit, thats no problem.
@@twanoligschlaeger you can add motion blur to video that’s already shot?
@@PowersVideo3D technically but it would be very tedious and im not too familiar with it
hey does someone know why i cant click on setup tracking scene?
hey i can't select the 3 points of tracking how do you do?
I know! you have to select 3 tracker not too near and if you don't know how to select multi tracks tape B and oriented to do a recteganl
@@preetha698 ı couldn't do that, can u help me bro?