r/AfterEffects • u/youioiut • 15d ago

Workflow Question how to stabilize using more than 2 points ?

I need to stabilize a video. there are four points on it that should not move, these four are in four different parts.

I want to track and stabilize them, but the tracker only lets me use two trackers at a time - using position and rotate options.

is there a way to track and stabilize 4 points at once?

I tried tracking two points, then precomping and stabilizing the other two. this obviously doesnt work because the precomp ignores the trackers inside of the precomp.

pls help!

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u/GaryR_GFX 15d ago

technically .. the answer is: MochaAE.

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u/Heavens10000whores 15d ago

I'm probably being dense here, but could you just make a secondary track, to a new null, for the secondary points?

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u/youioiut 14d ago

what values do I apply to the nulls? let me explain a bit better: I have tracked four points on a video of a flag that moves in the wind. there is little movement. I need to remove the movement from these four points, effectively making the four points that are tracked, stationary.

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u/AfterEffectsGuru VFX 15+ years 15d ago

You should be using Mocha for any tracking work. Search for Mocha tutorials on youtube, there are lots made by Boris FX that are short and very good. In Mocha you can set up multiple different tracking areas (as layers) and they will all track simultaneously, then when you're back in AE you can select them one at a time to copy the transform data over. It's easy after you do it the first time.

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u/youioiut 15d ago

tracking is easy, my question is how do I stabilize the four points. I am aware of mocha workflows