Lynda – After Effects Guru: Tracking Cameras and Stabilizing Footage

Whether it’s removing camera shake or tracking a camera’s movement, After Effects has you covered. You can apply a variety of techniques to smooth out the camera movement in a shot, using the After Effects Warp Stabilizer VFX effect, and track the camera to add objects into a scene realistically. Rich Harrington shows you how in this installment of After Effects Guru.

Topics include:

Analyzing footage
Using the 3D camera tracker to stabilize footage
Choosing and moving a target
Adding 3D text to a scene
Tracking an object
Applying the Warp Stabilizer VFX
Choosing a stabilization method
Reducing rolling shutter distortion
Matching movement