Tracking Steps

Go to the server's VFX Assets folder/tracking shots folder and find a shot to track. Drag it to your computer. Import your footage into AE, trim it if you have to.

1. create a null with Layer > New > Null Object.

2. Select the footage layer and Animation > Track Motion

3. Set Tracker to track motion and check the rotation box because handheld shots always have rotation in them.

4. Move tracking boxes to something to track.

5. Click Analyze Forward button (looks like a play button in the tracker controls)

If the track jumps off, hit reset and try again. Usually a smaller outside box will help. Or find something else to track.

Or, you can track frame by frame and adjust the point (if you have to)

6. Set the Target of the motion to be the Null Object.

7. Click Apply and then OK.

8. Layer > New > Text, create some text, move it to where you want it to be. You might need to make it a 3D layer.

9. Parent the text to the Null.

10. Add an adjustment layer and a photo filter effect. Or something else. Also, add a camera blur effect to your text to give it the same blur.