Setting Up a Basic Tracking Scene from Scratch in Blender Cycles Video Tutorial
Channel: The Blender Bro
Date: 2018-04-14

Originally uploaded to Vimeo on March 31, 2015

Original Vimeo Upload: https://vimeo.com/123753493

ORIGINAL VIMEO DESCRIPTION:

*Terribly sorry for the lagging in this video.  Probably should of unplugged my computer first before I started recording this tutorial.  Oh, well.  We'll all get over it eventually.*

While motion tracking in Blender, do you ever wonder what Blender automatically creates when you click 'Setup Tracking Scene' in the Movie Clip Editor when you solved the camera motion?  In this video, I will explain the ins and outs on how to create a basic tracking scene from pure scratch.  We'll go over on how to set up your 3D tracking scene as well as setting up your 3D objects in the scene, then we will use layers to keep the scene well organized and to create special effects like shadows and ambient occlusion with the objects in the 'Background' layer, and finally, we'll set up the basic motion tracking compositing node tree to be used in our final render.  I'll also explain some useful tips, like lighting your scene, and give you a couple of ideas that will help you further expand your composited 3D tracking scene.  I will also be using the video sequence editor to add the original raw audio from our movie clip into our scene.

*Note: This tutorial will explain how to set up a basic tracking scene from scratch in the Cycles Render Engine.  If you want to do this in the Blender Internal Render Engine, then I recommend going to the Blender Cloud and subscribing to Sebastian König's "Track, Match, Blend!" training series produced by the Blender Foundation, and taking a look at Chapter 02, Section 05 "Compositing."

I hope you find this video helpful and informative, and as always, keep on blending, bro!

Visit and register to the blender cloud here: https://cloud.blender.org/

Track, Match, Blend! Training Series link: https://cloud.blender.org/training/track-match-blend/

Download the source files at this Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2a7hub7hstev56k/Setting%20Up%20a%20Basic%20Tracking%20Scene%20in%20Blender_Source%20Files.zip?dl=0

Unless where otherwise noted, the video footage, image sequence, audio, blend file, and screenshot that are included in the zip file are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Learn more about the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

A brief rundown of the encoding settings I use when rendering video and audio in the video sequence editor when rendering the final result given in this tutorial can be found in my Audio Mixdown video tutorial which can be found here: https://vimeo.com/93062012

Video clip shown in the tutorial was shot with a Sony DCR-SX44 4GB Handycam Camcorder.

More info about said device, as well as product specifications can be found here: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/671551-REG/Sony_DCR_SX44_DCR_SX44_4GB_Handycam_Camcorder.html

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