Tracker2Mask
Version: 2.3 Sign up to be notified by email when a new version of this script is posted
Tracker2Mask is an After Effects script that computes the movement of mask shapes based on the movement of trackpoints. It is easy and flexible to use. In particular you don’t need one trackpoint for each maskpoint.
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The workflow is as follows:
- track a few points (something between one and four points is reasonable, even for complex mask shapes) that represent the basic movement of the object which you want to draw a mask around
- keyframe the mask by hand in the first and last frame
- use the script to predict keyframes in between (the script uses the tracker information for this prediction which is hence much better than the simple interpolation done by after effects itself)
Step 3) can be interleaved with manual corrections which leads to a quite fast, assisted rotoscoping workflow.
Tutorial 1
In this first tutorial I show how to rotoscope the shape of a moving car based on only four trackpoints, for simpler shapes often one trackpoint is sufficient.
Tutorial 2
In the second tutorial I describe some new features of Tracker2Mask that allow local modifications of masks.
Version History:
- 2.3 Made CS5 compatible and minor bug fix – Jun 2010
- 2.2 Bug fix that made AE freeze in some very rare occasions – Mar 2010
- 2.1 Initial release on aescripts.com – Aug 2009
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Very nice plugin Mathias!! Looking forward to use it. It will most definitely decrease the time it takes to doing roto work.
how can i donwload it without account in paypal (sorry, i don’t have money to pay it and i can’t have one account in paypal)?
@tulio: You can just lower the price in the shopping system to $0. Then you are not asked any payment information but only have to give your email where the download link should be send.
Parabéns Muito Bom!
Seems a great tool. Can’t wait to have a go at it.
its what i want! thank u very much-and also thanx for toturial
Hi thank you very much, just to tell you….for sure you can change the language of AE, To get After Effects CS4 in English on Mac, just select the icon that launches the application, click with right mouse button and select “Show Package Contents” then go to the folder Contents / Resources / AMTLanguages. There should be 2 files: en_US.txt and de_DE.txt, simply remove it and you’re done. If the file of the English language was not present simply create a text file with TextEdit, type in the file “en_US” and save under the name “en_US.txt.
I like to play with it. Thank you
Super Ding, weiter so :]
Used your Tracker2mask script in AE to create DoF for a shot interview, tutorial can be found at http://vimeo.com/11726645
Nice tutorial and thanks for the info! I wrote a note about it on my blog:
http://aextensions.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-tracker2mask-tutorial-by-steve.html
i like your website very nice!!
Where can i find the discount code?
You don’t need a discount code. It is “pay what you want”. Just change the price to whatever you want.