Main Concepts:

These are the features and concepts we will be focusing on in this project:

• Removing 3:2 pulldown

• Managing 16 235 luminance ranges

• Motion Tracking

• Nesting compositions

• Adjustment layers

• Adding pulldown during rendering

• The Wiggler (optional)

• Stroke, Mosaic, Transform, Numbers, Basic Text, and Posterize Time effects (optional)

Requirements:

After Effects 4.1 or later Production Bundle.

Getting Started:

Inside the Tutorials master folder on the accompanying CD, copy the folder 04_AutoTracker to your hard drive. Inside this is a folder called Final Movie open it, then open AutoTracker.mov in the QuickTime Player to preview it.

Inside the Project folder you ll find accompanying After Effects project files. Depending on the version of After Effects you are using 4.1 versus 5.0 or later open the project AutoTracker_4PB.aep or AutoTracker_5PB.aep. This is your starting point; we suggest you save under a new name after each major section.

Some details of using the Motion Tracker changed between After Effects 4.1 and 5.0. The illustrations and primary instructions in this tutorial will be based on version 5.0, but we will note the differences and give alternate instructions for 4.1 users as needed.

Overview

This tutorial is derived from a larger project CyberMotion executed for Perception Communications and American Isuzu Motors Inc. for Isuzu s new Axiom crossover vehicle. To illustrate the numerous sensors monitored by Isuzu s Torque on Demand system in the Axiom, we created a fanciful animation...