What is Alternative for After Effect’s 3D Camera Tracker ?

Its obvious that the camera tracker of After effects isn’t effective in many situations.

The after effects camera Tracker doesn’t provide manual tracking feature and hence isn’t useful in many cases. So we must looks for alternative for 3D camera Tracker.

Given below are few softwares which are best used in the industry for camera Tracking which is called as MatchMoving.

🔘 Best Alterative for After Effect’s 3D Camera Tracker :

     1. PF Track

    2. 3D equalizer

    3. Syntheyes

🔘 Best free Alternative software for 3D camera tracker :

1. Blender’s Camera Tracker

You can track your video footage in Blender and then export the tracking data to After Effects or any other desired softwares.

PF Track, 3D Equalizer , Syntheyes are made only for camera Tracking known as MatchMoving.

You can Track your footage in these softwares and export the tracking data to AfterEffetcs and you are pretty to go with your compositing .

What is MatchMoving ?

Suppose you have a video footage in which your camera is freely moving , in such type of footage before adding any fx you first have to track your camera i.e you have to create a virtual camera which moves according to the motion of real camera that captured the footage.

On doing so now you have converted your 2D video into a 3 Dimensional video environment. Now you have a 3D environment and a tracked camera and you can easily import this data to 3d softwares like Autodesk 3Ds Max,Maya , Blender or any compositing softwares and perform further operations. The most basic use of MatchMoving is to add CGI(computer integrated imagery) i.e. 3D models to your video footages.

How powerful are these MatchMoving Softwares ?

Aftereffects 3D Camera tracker provides you only the feature to track motion and track camera. But with these softwares the possibilities are endless. Not only you can track accurately but these softwires allow you to track your footages manually. These softwares allow you to track your object known as the Object Tracking. You can track your object in a video and export the data to 3d software like Autodesk 3ds Max , blender , Maya etc. and replace the Object with 3D objects.

To know more about Object Tracking click here

Which is best MatchMoving Software for Beginners ?

With my experience with the software the best and easiest software out of these is PF Track. With it’s easy to use and user friendly interface ,it is best for beginners.

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