Lynda ? After Effects Guru: Tracking 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