Giving myself a crash course in After Effects, this is the first video i've watched all the way through,.. thanks for making it easier by being genuinely funny and engaging. - Really enjoying your teaching style.
I think people complaining that he took to long should really just go somewhere else. You saw that the video was 30 minutes long. You should've new that he was gonna take his time and hold your hand through everything. Don't put blame on him for your impatient standards. This is the way that he teaches, and personally I appreciate much more than a quick video that gives me a summary of how to do something, yet I'm finding out there's a lot more smaller detailed problems I'll run into.
ECAbrams haha, good one! Since I am under shaves too - there is something in common. Will be waiting for your new tut man, and yeah, sweat suits you perfectly!
YEY! I've been waiting for another video since the day I found your channel (two weeks ago I guess). One of the best AE channels ever. I adore you for paving time and effort for the videos
I'm fairly new to scripting in AE (~2 years of experience) but I know part of what you said wasn't accurate: SideA = sub(A,B)[1]; does not mean part 1. Anything in brackets are part of an array or associated with the comp index which starts at 0 (as with all arrays). sub does subtract as you said but A and B are vector arrays which were assigned in the variables above, so it's already grabbing the coordinates or "points" you were saying the [1] was. What this is doing is assigning that subtraction of SideA to the second spot in an array and SideB to the first spot in the array. This is done because Math.atan2(); passes the arguments in y,x format. Then as you see does the final calculation. **the array the subtractions are stored in would look like this: [SideB, SideA] ***If I stated something incorrectly and someone more familiar with JavaScript reads this, please let me know. I'm always learning as well.
+TheRealBLFilms exactly. Halfway towards watching this im like "OMG get to the point". Why cant they just show me what to do and then do a separate video to talk all they want or explain more detailed things
Haha I am taking pointers from you two. Will try to cut my tutorials down lol. Many of mine are super long. I do add juicy info through it all though. It's a learning process though to become better at tutorial making.
Don't listen to these little whiners @FPC-Virtual. They haven't learned what a sense of humor is yet, and there's plenty of us out here that have. These are the kind of people that define "hardship" as having to exercise their finger to skip ahead in a video that explains things that used to take days or weeks to figure out. What am I saying... they probably still think hardship means a steel boat. :P
Just to help you out, because your video helped me out... The Yeti mic pickup pattern is out the sides of the mic, not the end as you have it in your video. You will get much better performance out of it if you speak into the side of the mic.
The Yeti mic is designed to be talked directly into the front of, not into the top of it. Was there a reason you're talking into the top of it? I thought your voice sounded a bit...far in the beginning. Switch it up and you should sound much more there :)
Awesome tutorial, funny and well explained. A quick question - could you make a tutorial on the videos people create where they say take their friends face and add it to someone's from say a music video? Or tell me what the affect is so i can look it up! Again wicked tutorial, thanks for your time.
Great tutorial! Quick question though, can you change skin color with the face tracking? AKA, I am white, and I would like to give myself an African American look. Could it be done through this? If not, what would you recommend doing?
From a technical perspective, once you establish a mask on an area you want to apply effects to you just use the mask to define the area of those effects in either an adjustment layer or in an effect's compositing options in the properties of that effect. Then I guess you will want to use a combination of colour based effects to change your skin tone like curves, tritone, change colour, change to colour, tint, HSL, and so on.
where have you been Evan??? I'm glad to see you back anyway! I just upgrade mine too but I haven't get a chance to check it out yet. so this will be very helpful and might try this when I get a chance.
Ravie247 I've been working, and then on vacation on the west coast. There are a few new things in 2015 that we'll look at so stay tuned for that coming soon... but maybe not too soon.
ECAbrams hahahaha. .that makes me laugh the "coming soon...but maybe not too soon". well, I think I will just keep an eye on your new videos. Take your time, coz every time you publish new ones they are the best anyway!
Thanks as always. Hope your vacation was a good one! One tutorial I'd request that vaguely relates to this (using an AE motion tracker) is GOOGLY EYES. The trick with making that look cool is to have responsive GOOGLY PUPILS (that shake around dependent on the movement on the subject, and the gravity of the pupil). I THINK it can be done but I'm sure that pupil stuff is all very expression-math-y, which I can't figure out myself.
You can definitely link them path data using expressions. There is a script included with Ae that can drive a mask's points with nulls if the intermediary step will help as well.
Love the video, liked and subbed... Made my own version of it (as best I could). When I went to copy the mask to an adjustment layer, the mask shrunk down to about 50 or 25% it's original size... Should that have happened? In your video it stays the same size... Wondering what I'm doing wrong... Thanks for the great video again!
I sorta figured out my problem, but it lead to another problem... I decided to start over from scratch, because I wasn't getting anywhere with the way I was doing things currently.. Right when I opened up my original video, I realized my error... I had tripled sized my original video... It was shot from my webcam (I can't find my tripod for my DSLR) and I believe that's why the mask is "shrinking". I'm fairly new to this whole photo world, is there any way I can make the mask stay the same size when I copy it to the adjustment layer if I double or triple size my original video.... I hope that makes sense.... :-\
+SkylineTTurbo well... why not scale up the adjustment layer to match then? If one layer is 300% larger and has a mask on it, then if you put that mask on another layer and scale it up 300% they will be the same right?
Well, this Face Tracker feature does drop a mask on the face. So you could give it a go. The amount of time it takes to process depends on the movement and complexity of the footage, and your hardware resources so I can't really give a number. If you want to do the process manually you might start by dropping a mask keyframe on a few frames and refine the mask at points between those significant frames rather then going one frame to the next. Does that make sense?
Hi there, very good tutorial, I have a question for u, I am using the expression and changed the layer name to my own but the error show up. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your help A=thisComp.layer(“carlo.mp4").effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Right"); B=thisComp.layer("carlo.mp4").effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Left"); // Find the length of side a SideA = sub(A, B)[1]; // Find the length of side b SideB = sub(A, B)[0]; //Find the Angle between them radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(SideA, SideB))+180;
so for some reason the face tracking detail is only making so that the mask follows the motion of the face, its not adding any face track points, and I'm using the detailed method, is there a reason for this?
Im not getting the "Face Track Points" tab under effects, and no points are showing on the face? My guy is wearing a mask, and u can only see his eyes. Is that the reason it wont work?
The context of what is actually in the footage doesn't change what options you have available. You could films a dog, or a building, or a can of soup and shoulds still see the same options. What version of Ae are you using?
I have a question and maybe you can answer... the face tracker.. when i try to track a face footage 35 seconds in front of green screen I can sometimes get about 15 seconds of footage fairly fast tracked then it slows way way way down to 1 frame about 1 min then finally conks out... any idea??
That sounds like the same feature. The problem is in the cache. It's filling up your RAM with nonsense. It's not an amazingly well thought out thing yet. Try purging then continuing when things get strange.
Great tutorial, however what if there is a break in the video, say you are tracking a face then the camera pans away to a quick cutscene then comes back. How can you handle that?
Evan Abrams, Apologies if I ask what is common knowledge. Do you know if there is a feature or tool within AE CC that allows an end user to take a video plate of keyed objects, and automate the keyed outlines in to spline masks?
my god that would have been useful for a video I just had to make, I didn't realize this was available. I ended up using point tracker and manually fixing it, since tracking eyes from a slight distance with a point tracker is horrible.
@ECAbrams is there any tutorial that explains, how to fix the mistakes the tracker makes? I struggles with beards and mouth recognition. It only recognizes the upper lip as the whole mouth. Plus if i try to change the shape of the whole face, it doesnt recognize the beard as pard of the face (make beard short for example). My question all in all: how can i change the tracking points effectively?
I've got some bad news. At this time the face tracker is really limited. It was originally intended to capture face movements for use in the character animator in a live setting. So the thought is that the actor will be tweaked to fit the software. Maybe some day we'll see some dials, but right now it is what it is.
+ECAbrams - One can do exactly the same with two track points of the tracker in Aftereffects 2.0 from 1995. It is not new. Why didn't you do something useful and animated e.g. the face of a 3D character in Autodesk Maya with that tracking data?
Technically you can track and mask out the eye and replace it with a non-moving eye of a previous frame. Your best bet is to first make a hole where the eyes are, then insert the desired eyes behind that layer using the tracking data of the face to keep them in the right place. It is very hard to make that seem accurate, natural, and not "uncanny". It's a challenge for sure, and you may want to weigh if the hours it'll take will be worth it. You certainly want some eye movement so the subject does not seem like a robot, so dialling that in will require some nuance.
i actually went off after you said that you need CC 2015 to be able to do this,then i thought about it if it was possible in any other way and commented,
Alright,thanks for the answer :D Also is it really worth it to upgrade to CC 2015? I only heard that the RAM-Preview has been taken out as a feature and that people don't really like it.What are your thought about it?
z7nxcreates if people are already on CC then the cost to upgrade is... continuing to pay the subscription fee. So for anyone one CC it's not an issue. For people thinking about getting on CC the RAM preview is not gone, but has been changed. Things are still being cached to, and played back from, the RAW. The way it works is meant to be more streamlined allowing for faster alterations between caches. Some people don't like the new features that focus on speed... but that's a topic for another video.
perhaps. You may need a script to get the data in a format that will work. Also, the data is all 2d, so it may not be the best source. I would recommend looking into other face tracking applications like Character Animator or something that can get you rotational information.
You tutorial is incredible, we only need that 2d, you are truly helpful, I will definitely subscribe, If you solved that mystery in a tutorial you will get 10000000 views in a day. great tutorial and thumbs up from Egypt
ECAbrams no, it worked the first time, I have several clips in my timeline to face track. I got the set rest pose and extract face measurements option after tracking the first clip. Then I wanted to track the second clip and when it finished tracking it didn't give me the option
+Scott Holmes so something of dimension 2 is like [x,y] like scale, or position. Something of dimension 1 is just a single value like opacity. So make sure you're linking inputs to outputs that will understand them.
do i have to rebuy after effects to get CC or can I just get it, i legitimately got the Creative Suite for CS6 and I don't want to buy a whole new thing... it would be kinda dickish of adobe to make us buy all their products again....
+Nether It's not exactly the same. CC is now 2 versions beyond where they were with CS6. Similarly to upgrade from cs4 to cs6 people would have had to buy the upgrade license. Now Adobe has switched to a completely different way of pricing their software. It's not for everyone certainly. But the subscription model is the new direction and I don't see it going back any time soon.
+Nether I don't know about that. It's always been a cost to keep current. You'd be paying to upgrade if they were using the old payment method either way. It's all the same circus, different clowns for most users.
+Nether I will say that the improvements are significant and useful. And the cost is about the same if you bought the upgrade every year. I opt for the yearly plan myself so the per month breakdown of fees is actually lower when you itemize it out. And if you're a student of a recognized institution you might be able to get a discount.
You'll just need to drop an expression in the position of the pins. Linking them to the null's position should do it. But you may need to use the toComp() expression in some cases. Hope that helps.
@@ECAbrams I thank you very much for helping me . you are a great person . i am sorry if my English language is not good because I am Arabic man from iraq. I wish you the best luck.
+Winning Fails TV parent one picture of a face to a null using the data from the face tracker for position scale and rotation. For a more nuanced approach... deform the picture of the face with the puppet pin tool linked to the points on the face. But honestly it'll look strange either way.
+Nathan Balboa I'm not sure if I mentioned it but this is a new thing to adobe CC. If you want to do this in cs6 you will need to do some work and make many manual points.
It's used in many music videos, but for compositing and effects, not so much for editing. Ae doesn't have great audio playback. It's getting better, but it's not meant to be used in the same way as Premiere for example.
+Carlos laviña imagine if you will that horizontal is 0 degrees, and vertical would be 90 degrees, like in cartesian geometry from math class. So if i go over one and up one I'm at 45 degrees from horizontal right? That's what we're finding using the power of math. We are computing the angle of the line segment relative to the frame, which is plotted using points defined by coordinates on a grid. Does that track for you?
+Miguel Rodriguez That is very strange. I have the same version and do have the feature. Are you making a mask, then selecting the mask, then opening the tracker panel, and then selecting Face Tracking from the "method" menu? I would suggest contacting adobe support if that's the case.
+ECAbrams That's weird, it worked now... Leave to you to have that magic touch lol I think I must have created an ellipse without selecting the video first. Thanks!
I keep getting an error about expression result must be of dimension 2, not 1. Every time i change the expression to the name of the video as you did. how do I fix this?
I think you may have entered the expression incorrectly. If the result needs to be of dimension 2 it needs to come out like [a,b] instead of dimension 1 which looks like "a". So things like scale or position or anchor points need to have 2 parts right? A vertical and a horizontal. But things like opacity need to be in dimension 1 because they just have the one value. Sometimes we want to use only one part of a dimension 2 array so we ask for a specific part with the brackets [0] to get the first part or [1] to get the second part. Does that make sense?
Well, that depends. For this tutorial we use an expression to convert positional data into the length between two points. So if you want to do that you'll need to separate properties into parts in the expression, yes. As for what specifically you're doing different from the tutorial, I couldn't say.
I"m basically doing the exact same every step but with a different video. I get the same error you get in the the video about the name, but once i change the name the dimension error comes up.
+Elric CHAPELON If you want to do this using older versions of Ae you should be preparred to manually track the features of the face individually. THIS feature is new and unique because it tracks many features at the same time without needing to manually select them. So can you arrive at the same solution? yes. But with much labor.
+Bongo2k The audio sounds great to us audio engineers ! I would pay more attention to the quality of sound when making critiques instead of how one should or shouldn't address a microphone. +ECAbrams Great Tuts Mr Abrams! Beauty Audio !
+Fathi Khelili how much gb of what? RAM? Harddrive space? Lots of things are measured in Gb. If you want to know about the system requirements for after effects you might want to check adobe.com It's not really secret information.
+Fathi Khelili well according to adobe.com, the place where many answers about the system requirements for adobe's many products can be found, it's recommend that you have at least 8gb of rams, but you only need 4. Any if you use angora rams, or st louis rams, you might be able to get by with less, or fewer, whichever.
+J.D. Black The background or the video layer? Are you working in the comp view or the layer view? I might not have enough information to diagnose the problem.
+J.D. Black has it by any chance drawn a mask on the video layer? Hit "m" to have a look at masks? It does that to isolate the face. I talked about that mask thing right?
+eddie villanueva Sort of.... though I will say it's not easy and requires some setup outside of after effects to make it work well. Imagine if you will that someone loses size, you would see more of whatever is behind them. Where will the information of what is behind them come from?
+ECAbrams facebook.com/bleacherreport/videos/10154091216051006/ I'm trying to learn how to cut things out of an image like that and still retain the background . Like how he cuts Lebron and and the basketball court is still there
someone really needs to make a tl;dr tutorial channel of videos that aim to teach you something and cutting out the 15-20 minutes of bs videos like this put you through
![Summer Walker - Heart Of A Woman [Official Lyric Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SFddctbZzw8/mqdefault.jpg)
Giving myself a crash course in After Effects, this is the first video i've watched all the way through,..
thanks for making it easier by being genuinely funny and engaging. - Really enjoying your teaching style.
I really enjoy the details of this tutorial!
Hell, I enjoy anyone willing to take the time to share FREE college course lessons.
I think people complaining that he took to long should really just go somewhere else. You saw that the video was 30 minutes long. You should've new that he was gonna take his time and hold your hand through everything. Don't put blame on him for your impatient standards. This is the way that he teaches, and personally I appreciate much more than a quick video that gives me a summary of how to do something, yet I'm finding out there's a lot more smaller detailed problems I'll run into.
get to the point! *get to the point!* GET TO THE POINT! *GET TO THE POINT!*
I agree,I agree I agree
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I had the video played on x2 speed and it still felt like a drag.
Couldn't help staring at your NICE face and forgeting about what you said in the whole 30 mins.
Evan, you shine charisma and this gives your tutorials... A huge edge over other guys! Thanks a lot:))
Tom10 Explainers that shine is from sweat.
ECAbrams haha, good one! Since I am under shaves too - there is something in common. Will be waiting for your new tut man, and yeah, sweat suits you perfectly!
YEY! I've been waiting for another video since the day I found your channel (two weeks ago I guess).
One of the best AE channels ever.
I adore you for paving time and effort for the videos
Bianca Niccole well, I hope to get another one out this month. Glad you enjoy them and stay tuned for more.
I'm fairly new to scripting in AE (~2 years of experience) but I know part of what you said wasn't accurate:
SideA = sub(A,B)[1]; does not mean part 1. Anything in brackets are part of an array or associated with the comp index which starts at 0 (as with all arrays).
sub does subtract as you said but A and B are vector arrays which were assigned in the variables above, so it's already grabbing the coordinates or "points" you were saying the [1] was.
What this is doing is assigning that subtraction of SideA to the second spot in an array and SideB to the first spot in the array. This is done because Math.atan2(); passes the arguments in y,x format. Then as you see does the final calculation.
**the array the subtractions are stored in would look like this:
[SideB, SideA]
***If I stated something incorrectly and someone more familiar with JavaScript reads this, please let me know. I'm always learning as well.
Holy Crap.
Man I gotta learn Javascript now. Oh boy!! 😄
What is a better to face tracking, after effects or sony vegas?
This is a great tutorial! Really throughly explains how the face tracker works.
Why is every tutorial on the internet 20 minutes longer than it needs to be with a host in love with their own voice?
+TheRealBLFilms exactly. Halfway towards watching this im like "OMG get to the point". Why cant they just show me what to do and then do a separate video to talk all they want or explain more detailed things
Haha I am taking pointers from you two. Will try to cut my tutorials down lol. Many of mine are super long. I do add juicy info through it all though. It's a learning process though to become better at tutorial making.
Don't listen to these little whiners @FPC-Virtual. They haven't learned what a sense of humor is yet, and there's plenty of us out here that have. These are the kind of people that define "hardship" as having to exercise their finger to skip ahead in a video that explains things that used to take days or weeks to figure out. What am I saying... they probably still think hardship means a steel boat. :P
Just to help you out, because your video helped me out... The Yeti mic pickup pattern is out the sides of the mic, not the end as you have it in your video. You will get much better performance out of it if you speak into the side of the mic.
Is it possible to apply a virtual camera layer and have it parented to the face tracking layer so that the virtual camera follows the face?
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My gosh...
Walter Weber you r a livesaver... thank you
Your subtle humor is a bonus lol
The Yeti mic is designed to be talked directly into the front of, not into the top of it. Was there a reason you're talking into the top of it? I thought your voice sounded a bit...far in the beginning. Switch it up and you should sound much more there :)
Awesome tutorial, funny and well explained. A quick question - could you make a tutorial on the videos people create where they say take their friends face and add it to someone's from say a music video? Or tell me what the affect is so i can look it up! Again wicked tutorial, thanks for your time.
Very good tutorial! Can this be used with the liquify effect to stick the distortion to the face?
looks great, does this work as well or better than Mocha?
I started to follow from Turkey, you are doing very successful works. I wish you continued success.
Great tutorial! Quick question though, can you change skin color with the face tracking? AKA, I am white, and I would like to give myself an African American look. Could it be done through this? If not, what would you recommend doing?
From a technical perspective, once you establish a mask on an area you want to apply effects to you just use the mask to define the area of those effects in either an adjustment layer or in an effect's compositing options in the properties of that effect. Then I guess you will want to use a combination of colour based effects to change your skin tone like curves, tritone, change colour, change to colour, tint, HSL, and so on.
Ok Great!! Thanks so much for your reply! I really appreciate it! I'll give it a whirl and see what I can do.
what camera did you use to record? It is extremely clear
I'm glad you are back!
Renan Dantas Wrobel contrary to popular belief I was not killed by bears.
where have you been Evan??? I'm glad to see you back anyway! I just upgrade mine too but I haven't get a chance to check it out yet. so this will be very helpful and might try this when I get a chance.
Ravie247 I've been working, and then on vacation on the west coast. There are a few new things in 2015 that we'll look at so stay tuned for that coming soon... but maybe not too soon.
ECAbrams hahahaha. .that makes me laugh the "coming soon...but maybe not too soon".
well, I think I will just keep an eye on your new videos. Take your time, coz every time you publish new ones they are the best anyway!
Ravie247 yeah, Evan rocks!
Thx Sir. That's what I was searching for since the beginning of a project I'm on for a while now
can u apply the facial data to corisponding parts of an animated face with the puppet tool to make the animated face move exactly like yours?
WOW Im halfway thru and just amazed
Good stuff Abrams!!!!
Thanks as always.
Hope your vacation was a good one!
One tutorial I'd request that vaguely relates to this (using an AE motion tracker) is GOOGLY EYES.
The trick with making that look cool is to have responsive GOOGLY PUPILS (that shake around dependent on the movement on the subject, and the gravity of the pupil). I THINK it can be done but I'm sure that pupil stuff is all very expression-math-y, which I can't figure out myself.
Hi guys, pls help quick after i track finish, the face tracker points don't appear why is that so?
It makes me happy when I incorporate an expression into my project! :)
The effect "Face Track Points" is not there,what can I do?
Hi, there! Can you convert those track points into a shape layer? Or link them to Mask Points? Thanks, Pal.
You can definitely link them path data using expressions. There is a script included with Ae that can drive a mask's points with nulls if the intermediary step will help as well.
@@ECAbrams THANK YOU, man.
nice!! thanks alot for sharing :) always easier to learn if you're a programmer :D
Love the video, liked and subbed... Made my own version of it (as best I could). When I went to copy the mask to an adjustment layer, the mask shrunk down to about 50 or 25% it's original size... Should that have happened? In your video it stays the same size... Wondering what I'm doing wrong... Thanks for the great video again!
+SkylineTTurbo Are the two layers the same size?
I sorta figured out my problem, but it lead to another problem... I decided to start over from scratch, because I wasn't getting anywhere with the way I was doing things currently.. Right when I opened up my original video, I realized my error... I had tripled sized my original video... It was shot from my webcam (I can't find my tripod for my DSLR) and I believe that's why the mask is "shrinking". I'm fairly new to this whole photo world, is there any way I can make the mask stay the same size when I copy it to the adjustment layer if I double or triple size my original video.... I hope that makes sense.... :-\
+SkylineTTurbo well... why not scale up the adjustment layer to match then? If one layer is 300% larger and has a mask on it, then if you put that mask on another layer and scale it up 300% they will be the same right?
Would u mind if i ask an question? how much it takes time to track face and apply mask on it. Do we need to go frame by frame?
Well, this Face Tracker feature does drop a mask on the face. So you could give it a go. The amount of time it takes to process depends on the movement and complexity of the footage, and your hardware resources so I can't really give a number. If you want to do the process manually you might start by dropping a mask keyframe on a few frames and refine the mask at points between those significant frames rather then going one frame to the next. Does that make sense?
Thx for thr replying.So if we wanna wear mask like od spiderman on face it dont take long time isnt it? If we make Ae faster with proxies?
Hey, does such expression exist for scale tracking? (like zooming in\out of a face)
realy fun tutorial! where can i get to learn after effects from scratch?
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Hi there, very good tutorial, I have a question for u, I am using the expression and changed the layer name to my own but the error show up. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your help
A=thisComp.layer(“carlo.mp4").effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Right");
B=thisComp.layer("carlo.mp4").effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Left");
// Find the length of side a
SideA = sub(A, B)[1];
// Find the length of side b
SideB = sub(A, B)[0];
//Find the Angle between them
radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(SideA, SideB))+180;
What is "the error"? Which error specifically does it say?
still a great video of the face tracking feature. Thank you!
so for some reason the face tracking detail is only making so that the mask follows the motion of the face, its not adding any face track points, and I'm using the detailed method, is there a reason for this?
perhaps there has been an error of some kind? Does the problem continue if you restart the process? Or close down the app and reload?
can you use the track points on the face to apply digital makeup, like adding eye-shadow or darken brows or change lip color?
+Rachel Ebgi absolutely one could if they were so inclined. Or fangs. Or an extra eye. Or a lizard mouth. Or cold sores. Anything really.
Im not getting the "Face Track Points" tab under effects, and no points are showing on the face?
My guy is wearing a mask, and u can only see his eyes. Is that the reason it wont work?
The context of what is actually in the footage doesn't change what options you have available. You could films a dog, or a building, or a can of soup and shoulds still see the same options. What version of Ae are you using?
I have a question and maybe you can answer... the face tracker.. when i
try to track a face footage 35 seconds in front of green screen I can
sometimes get about 15 seconds of footage fairly fast tracked then it
slows way way way down to 1 frame about 1 min then finally conks out...
any idea??
That sounds like the same feature. The problem is in the cache. It's filling up your RAM with nonsense. It's not an amazingly well thought out thing yet. Try purging then continuing when things get strange.
Great tutorial, however what if there is a break in the video, say you are tracking a face then the camera pans away to a quick cutscene then comes back. How can you handle that?
Delete that section of the mask from the timeline
You might split the layer, or track before and after the cut. you don't have to do it all in one continuous track.
Evan Abrams, Apologies if I ask what is common knowledge. Do you know if there is a feature or tool within AE CC that allows an end user to take a video plate of keyed objects, and automate the keyed outlines in to spline masks?
like the auto-trace function? That will make masks based on channel, and that channel could be alpha channel.
Evan A., Thank you, I have made a note of the auto trace function and will look out for a tutorial on it.
Cheers for the tutorial Seth Rogen
my god that would have been useful for a video I just had to make, I didn't realize this was available. I ended up using point tracker and manually fixing it, since tracking eyes from a slight distance with a point tracker is horrible.
@ECAbrams is there any tutorial that explains, how to fix the mistakes the tracker makes? I struggles with beards and mouth recognition. It only recognizes the upper lip as the whole mouth. Plus if i try to change the shape of the whole face, it doesnt recognize the beard as pard of the face (make beard short for example). My question all in all: how can i change the tracking points effectively?
I've got some bad news. At this time the face tracker is really limited. It was originally intended to capture face movements for use in the character animator in a live setting. So the thought is that the actor will be tweaked to fit the software. Maybe some day we'll see some dials, but right now it is what it is.
ECAbrams so how do i fit the actor to the software? what do have to keep in mind before filming? thanks for the fast response, awrsome stuff here!
I believe this is what I was looking for like 3 months ago when I asked you haha.
ActionFactionVideos sounds about right.
+ECAbrams - One can do exactly the same with two track points of the tracker in Aftereffects 2.0 from 1995. It is not new.
Why didn't you do something useful and animated e.g. the face of a 3D character in Autodesk Maya with that tracking data?
Hi Bro, any possible ways to remove unwanted eye movements in an interview? I have a close up shot
Technically you can track and mask out the eye and replace it with a non-moving eye of a previous frame. Your best bet is to first make a hole where the eyes are, then insert the desired eyes behind that layer using the tracking data of the face to keep them in the right place. It is very hard to make that seem accurate, natural, and not "uncanny". It's a challenge for sure, and you may want to weigh if the hours it'll take will be worth it. You certainly want some eye movement so the subject does not seem like a robot, so dialling that in will require some nuance.
what camera u are using?
Hello,
Isn't it possible to achieve similiar things with older Version of After Effects via Track Motion?
z7nxcreates it is, I think I say that near the end right?
i actually went off after you said that you need CC 2015 to be able to do this,then i thought about it if it was possible in any other way and commented,
z7nxcreates well it is possible. It's also possible to tie your shoes wearing oven mitts, but will be moderately more challenging.
Alright,thanks for the answer :D
Also is it really worth it to upgrade to CC 2015?
I only heard that the RAM-Preview has been taken out as a feature and that people don't really like it.What are your thought about it?
z7nxcreates if people are already on CC then the cost to upgrade is... continuing to pay the subscription fee. So for anyone one CC it's not an issue. For people thinking about getting on CC the RAM preview is not gone, but has been changed. Things are still being cached to, and played back from, the RAW. The way it works is meant to be more streamlined allowing for faster alterations between caches. Some people don't like the new features that focus on speed... but that's a topic for another video.
A note on using the Blue microphone - the pickup occurs on the sides - so keep the microphone upright.
can we transfer the face tracking data to Maya to animate a character data?
perhaps. You may need a script to get the data in a format that will work. Also, the data is all 2d, so it may not be the best source. I would recommend looking into other face tracking applications like Character Animator or something that can get you rotational information.
You tutorial is incredible, we only need that 2d, you are truly helpful, I will definitely subscribe, If you solved that mystery in a tutorial you will get 10000000 views in a day.
great tutorial and thumbs up from Egypt
I DON'T HAVE SET REST POSE AND CAPTURE FACE MEASUREMENTS HELPP
are you perhaps using an older version of after effects?
ECAbrams no, it worked the first time, I have several clips in my timeline to face track. I got the set rest pose and extract face measurements option after tracking the first clip. Then I wanted to track the second clip and when it finished tracking it didn't give me the option
I have an expression error saying "Expression result must be of dimension 2, not 1". What do I do?
+Scott Holmes so something of dimension 2 is like [x,y] like scale, or position. Something of dimension 1 is just a single value like opacity. So make sure you're linking inputs to outputs that will understand them.
Ok thank you.
Hey Abrams, Im wondering if there any way to export the face tracking data to a txt or any document file?
+亞倫動物園 for sure, copy and paste I believe.
that is great....and thank you a lot .a have just one problem that i can,t download your Tutorial Project File .so pleas help me .and thanks again.
But for me it's not coming background black and face is Bible how to do that please , could you please send me the video
Sorry, the face is a bible? I'm not sure I understand.
do i have to rebuy after effects to get CC or can I just get it, i legitimately got the Creative Suite for CS6 and I don't want to buy a whole new thing... it would be kinda dickish of adobe to make us buy all their products again....
+Nether It's not exactly the same. CC is now 2 versions beyond where they were with CS6. Similarly to upgrade from cs4 to cs6 people would have had to buy the upgrade license. Now Adobe has switched to a completely different way of pricing their software. It's not for everyone certainly. But the subscription model is the new direction and I don't see it going back any time soon.
ECAbrams well poop, adobe kinda just flushed my money down the toilet there didn't they...
+Nether I don't know about that. It's always been a cost to keep current. You'd be paying to upgrade if they were using the old payment method either way. It's all the same circus, different clowns for most users.
ECAbrams Then I guess I might get a creative cloud
+Nether I will say that the improvements are significant and useful. And the cost is about the same if you bought the upgrade every year. I opt for the yearly plan myself so the per month breakdown of fees is actually lower when you itemize it out. And if you're a student of a recognized institution you might be able to get a discount.
I just wish creativecow would update their straight-out-of-2002 looking forum.
+Digitalsoju TV But that would really ruin the charm and whimsey of the place. :)
very good .. i have problem when I need link the puppet pin with the null object I don't shown the parent in the puppet pin
You'll just need to drop an expression in the position of the pins. Linking them to the null's position should do it. But you may need to use the toComp() expression in some cases. Hope that helps.
@@ECAbrams I thank you very much for helping me . you are a great person . i am sorry if my English language is not good because I am Arabic man from iraq. I wish you the best luck.
oh, i wanna try this new things but my old macbook air can't handle this. i can't even afford to buy new one :( it's good to know anyway!
Seonghye Jeong should the time come that you can upgrade, it'll be there.
why are all Evans bald?
Huge revival ! Nice job 😉👍
i want to replace a face with someone else's face how can i do that?
+Winning Fails TV parent one picture of a face to a null using the data from the face tracker for position scale and rotation. For a more nuanced approach... deform the picture of the face with the puppet pin tool linked to the points on the face. But honestly it'll look strange either way.
This lesson can be explained in two minutes !! Why talk too much? you were inventing a rocket ?
Thanks for the tutorial.
Great video.
+Ben Aaron tell me plz...how much gb needed for after effect?????
I know its after effects CC but is this also compatible with CS 6? Im new to the after effects game but getting along.
+Nathan Balboa I'm not sure if I mentioned it but this is a new thing to adobe CC. If you want to do this in cs6 you will need to do some work and make many manual points.
+ECAbrams ok yea you mentioned it was for CC or newer but i wasnt sure where CS6 stood on that lol... thanks for the reply!!
dont mean to tell yea ya doin it wrong but ur talkin into the mic wrong
i need help new to after affects was wondering could I use it for music videos
It's used in many music videos, but for compositing and effects, not so much for editing. Ae doesn't have great audio playback. It's getting better, but it's not meant to be used in the same way as Premiere for example.
didnt understand the part of calculating the angle between 2 points. I mean, there is no angle there, just a segment.
+Carlos laviña imagine if you will that horizontal is 0 degrees, and vertical would be 90 degrees, like in cartesian geometry from math class. So if i go over one and up one I'm at 45 degrees from horizontal right? That's what we're finding using the power of math. We are computing the angle of the line segment relative to the frame, which is plotted using points defined by coordinates on a grid. Does that track for you?
How odd, I don't have that feature and I have the latest version (AE CC 13.7.0.124). Creative Cloud app doesn't show an update for AE.
+Miguel Rodriguez That is very strange. I have the same version and do have the feature. Are you making a mask, then selecting the mask, then opening the tracker panel, and then selecting Face Tracking from the "method" menu? I would suggest contacting adobe support if that's the case.
+ECAbrams That's weird, it worked now... Leave to you to have that magic touch lol
I think I must have created an ellipse without selecting the video first. Thanks!
I keep getting an error about expression result must be of dimension 2, not 1. Every time i change the expression to the name of the video as you did. how do I fix this?
I think you may have entered the expression incorrectly. If the result needs to be of dimension 2 it needs to come out like [a,b] instead of dimension 1 which looks like "a". So things like scale or position or anchor points need to have 2 parts right? A vertical and a horizontal. But things like opacity need to be in dimension 1 because they just have the one value. Sometimes we want to use only one part of a dimension 2 array so we ask for a specific part with the brackets [0] to get the first part or [1] to get the second part. Does that make sense?
so I need to change to[ a,b] and [0] to [1] ?
Well, that depends. For this tutorial we use an expression to convert positional data into the length between two points. So if you want to do that you'll need to separate properties into parts in the expression, yes. As for what specifically you're doing different from the tutorial, I couldn't say.
I"m basically doing the exact same every step but with a different video. I get the same error you get in the the video about the name, but once i change the name the dimension error comes up.
Is there a way of creating a 3D null from these points?
+Jos Taylor you can click them 3d if you want. But they are planar points so they will have no depth information.
+ECAbrams ok thanks, I was looking to track on some layers that can rotate with the face on all axis.
Worked in After Effects CC 2014.1 ??
+Elric CHAPELON not really. because we're talking about something that is explicitly new in 2015.
+ECAbrams Ok :-/ (Sorry, I am French) -> est-ce qu'il y a une autre manière pour le faire avec la version 2014.1 d'After Effects ?
+Elric CHAPELON If you want to do this using older versions of Ae you should be preparred to manually track the features of the face individually. THIS feature is new and unique because it tracks many features at the same time without needing to manually select them. So can you arrive at the same solution? yes. But with much labor.
+ECAbrams Thank you !!
+1 subscriber !!
Thank you so much Mr. Abrams!
is this called rotoscoping ?
rotoscoping typically refers to frame by frame manual tracing of an image.
Cooooll!!!! ThANKS For THE TUtoriAL.
dude the yeti is a side address microphone, you need to talk into the side, not the top...
sorry to offend you
ECAbrams wat
+ECAbrams you earned a fan !
you can change the mode on the side, I have one
+Bongo2k The audio sounds great to us audio engineers ! I would pay more attention to the quality of sound when making critiques instead of how one should or shouldn't address a microphone. +ECAbrams Great Tuts Mr Abrams! Beauty Audio !
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you're using that mic wrong. speak into the front...not the top
Hey Pal, r u ok? 4 months without a video. We miss you!
Just been hella busy. But something is coming out this week.
Great! Thanks from Spain!
tell me plz...how much gb needed for after effect?????
+Fathi Khelili how much gb of what? RAM? Harddrive space? Lots of things are measured in Gb. If you want to know about the system requirements for after effects you might want to check adobe.com It's not really secret information.
yes ram
+Fathi Khelili well according to adobe.com, the place where many answers about the system requirements for adobe's many products can be found, it's recommend that you have at least 8gb of rams, but you only need 4. Any if you use angora rams, or st louis rams, you might be able to get by with less, or fewer, whichever.
thank's
What type of camara do you used
donald dallas canon 60d
ECAbrams thanks for that
The background turns black when I try to do the tracking. Help!
+J.D. Black The background or the video layer? Are you working in the comp view or the layer view? I might not have enough information to diagnose the problem.
ECAbrams the background. The guys face is there, but everything behind him goes away.
+J.D. Black has it by any chance drawn a mask on the video layer? Hit "m" to have a look at masks? It does that to isolate the face. I talked about that mask thing right?
+ECAbrams Do I remove the mask when I'm done?
+J.D. Black If you want to. Or you could set the mask to "none" instead of "add", or use it for something. Do what you feel.
what problem do you use?
Do you mean "program"? I'm not totally sure how I might use a problem.
Good Game.
+ECAbrams hahahaha 😂 damm spell check . program is right??
Well in this tutorial we're using adobe after effects CC.
thanks for the tut but you talk tooo much
i was searching for this.
How about making a fat person skinny. Can that be done using After Affect?
+eddie villanueva Sort of.... though I will say it's not easy and requires some setup outside of after effects to make it work well. Imagine if you will that someone loses size, you would see more of whatever is behind them. Where will the information of what is behind them come from?
I see. Thank you so much for replying back. I have commented on other tutorials but never got a response back. So thank you so much!
+eddie villanueva I try to get to everyone. But there are many comments.
Oh thank God I'm not the only one with a flesh coloured wall... For a second there, I thought I was the only one.
EmoMFr2 if you look hard enough on the internet you'll always find more than one person into a thing.
dope. awesome tut. subsribed
Hey ecabrams I had a request. Anywhere I could contact you at?
you are contacting me now, through this. Is this a... strange and private kind of request? if so email me info@evanabrams.com
Can I have a strange & privet request?
+The Noah sure. that's what the email is for?
+ECAbrams facebook.com/bleacherreport/videos/10154091216051006/ I'm trying to learn how to cut things out of an image like that and still retain the background . Like how he cuts Lebron and and the basketball court is still there
same!
+ECAbrams Can you do tutorial on how to change the same text into different fonts rapidly?
In other words, rapid random font changes to the same text.
How can I use Plexus with this?
+Kush Agarwal you just need to make the nulls 3D and use them in plexus to make the geometry.
Thanks a lot!
Can I do it in AE CS6?
김하늘 No you can't. I'm not sure if I explained that this is a new feature for new people using adobe after effects cc 2015... but it is.
youre hilarious man! good stuff
ECAbrams im pretty sure your mic would sound better if you talked towards the side of the mic rather than the top of it.
***** Does it sound better during the tutorial compared to the intro?
ECAbrams yes, it does.
lol "this is as close as anyone should ever be to my face"
someone really needs to make a tl;dr tutorial channel of videos that aim to teach you something and cutting out the 15-20 minutes of bs videos like this put you through