How to track 3D text into your drone footage

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Month: April 2017

I go over two examples on how to add 3D extruded text and plain text to your drone footage. I used a DJI Mavic Pro. I also share my workflow at a high level including grading with Magic Bullet Colorista IV in Final Cut Pro.

Skip to 3:00 to see how to track in After Effects with Ray Tracing.

Skip to 14:00 for grading in Final Cut Pro

Skip to 19:00 to see how to track in AE with Classic 3D Plain text Buy the Mavic Pro here:  or here: http://amzn.to/2nfTfOS

In visual effectsmatch moving is a technique that allows the insertion of computer graphics into live-action footage with correct position, scale, orientation, and motion relative to the photographed objects in the shot. The term is used loosely to describe several different methods of extracting camera motion information from a motion picture. Sometimes referred to as motion tracking or camera solving, match moving is related to rotoscoping and photogrammetry. Match moving is sometimes confused with motion capture, which records the motion of objects, often human actors, rather than the camera. Typically, motion capture requires special cameras and sensors and a controlled environment (although recent developments such as the Kinect camera and Apple’s Face ID have begun to change this). Match moving is also distinct from motion control photography, which uses mechanical hardware to execute multiple identical camera moves. Match moving, by contrast, is typically a software-based technology, applied after the fact to normal footage recorded in uncontrolled environments with an ordinary camera.