The Foundary Nuke CAMERATRACKER 101 Tutorial

101 Tutorials: Class 01 - Intro, Installation & Licensing:

In this video, Jack walks through what the series of videos will cover, introducing the plug-in and showing how to install and license up the build. 

101 Tutorials: Class 02 - First Tracks

This video walks through pulling your first camera track, and the steps involved. For those of you with the build already up and running, start here! 

101 Tutorials: Class 03 - Point Clouds, Ground Planes & Creating Objects

In this video Jack covers the point cloud feature preview, and the tasks this can be used to assist in, including setting ground planes, and creating solids and nulls based on features in the scene. 

101 Tutorials: Class 04 - Improving Solves, Pt1 - Judging Quality, Deleting Points & Matting

In this video Jack covers some workflow tips for improving the quality of your tracking and solving, including how to eyeball your result to judge your solve, and how to delete and matte out points. 

101 Tutorials: Class 05 - Improving Solves, Pt2 - Stats, Track Finders & Refine Workflow

In this video Jack covers some further workflow tips for improving the quality of your tracking and solving, including using the stats readouts to judge numerically bad frames, using the track finders to pick out bad points, and using the refine workflow to remove significant numbers of bad tracks. 

101 Tutorials: Class 06 - Troubleshooting Tricky Tracks Example 1

This video takes what has been covered so far and applies it to a different example, extending the matting seen already by generating the matte using other After Effects plug-ins.

101 Tutorials: Class 07 - Troubleshooting Tricky Tracks Example 2

This video takes what has been covered so far and applies it to another example, in this case looking specifically at fixing up a bad track phase, and setting focal lengths manually.

101 Tutorials: Class 08 - Dealing With Lensdistortion

In this video Jack takes a look at some of the techniques used for dealing with shots with lens distortion.

101 Tutorials: Class 09 - Dealing With Nodal Pans

In this video Jack takes a look at a specific class of shots, namely nodal pans, and the tools inside CAMERATRACKER for helping deal with them.

101 Tutorials: Class 10 - Using CAMERATRACKER Created Scenes

In this closing video Jack covers some of the uses for the techniques seen so far, specifically looking at techniques for inserting text and design elements, using in conjunction with comp camera effects, and exporting the resultant data to other packages.

Download Links:

Download the assets featured in the 101 tutorial videos:  (1.12 GB)


Footage Assets/Excercise Files

(Right Click and Choose Save Target As/ Save Link As/ choose your download accelerator to download.) 

Class 01

Class 02

Class 03

Class 04

Class 05

Class 06

Class 07

Class 08

Class 09

Class 10



Stay tuned for CAMERATRACKER 201 Tutorial Videos. 


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