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MotionGrabber Preview

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Enjoy this exclusive sneak-peak at a cool plugin that is coming out in the next few weeks. Grab this tasty tool while it’s still free to download.

MotionGrabber is a plugin developed by Avidion Media in cooperation with my own company - Polygon Studio. It is meant to help you with uncommon motion tracking tasks that are hard or even impossible to handle with AE build in pixel tracker. I welcome you to download this plugin and give it a try.

MotionGrabber 0.0.1 is a early prerelease that was tested only with AE CS3. and for the time being works only on Windows. Good news is that now it works on Mac and Windows. I decided to share this little piece of software with you because I already find it very useful. Please remember that the official release will work on Mac’s as well and be loaded with extra features, therefore it will probably no longer be free.

Generally speaking MotionGrabber expands the spectrum of trackable data. This prerelease is only able to track the alpha channel of a given layer, but the final release is going to have a lot of extra features and hopefully it will be your second most commonly used tracking tool.

Please note!
This prerelease is provided as-is with no official support. You may download and use it for free at your own risk. Polygon Studio, Avidion Media, nor anyone else but you alone can be held responsible for any damage that might caused by this software.

To install the plugin simply copy it into your AE Plug-ins directory. Please let me know what you think. I know I find it useful and I wonder what your opinion might be. Also let me know of any bugs you might find. Thanks in advance. Enjoy!

Download: MotionGrabberPrereleaseWin.zip (Windows)
Download: MotionGrabberPrereleaseMac.zip (Mac)

The footage used in this tutorial is a property of uberstock.com. Check out the site for some amazing stock footage. Make sure to check out Uberstock’s iStockPhoto profile as well.

36 Responses to “MotionGrabber Preview”

  1. You are up there man, cool stuff cant wait to see the finished product. Thanks for free preview.

    abe said this July 18th, 2008 at 16:50

  2. Thanks again for the free preview Bro!!!! God bless you for this!!!! cheers.

    Aldie said this July 18th, 2008 at 17:48

  3. Something is not right wit the uberstock.com link, I suppose.

    pakistan said this July 18th, 2008 at 17:58

  4. I’ve noticed. Probably temporarily. They said they are still working on it. But iStockPhoto link works.

    Maltaannon said this July 18th, 2008 at 18:16

  5. Thanks for the tutorial and the plug-ins…
    love live Maltaannon.com

    Joe Tonsing said this July 18th, 2008 at 19:15

  6. thanks maltaannon:)

    ömer tatlisoz said this July 18th, 2008 at 23:54

  7. I cannot access uberstock.com

    vianz said this July 19th, 2008 at 4:16

  8. You are so awesome, but I guess you know that already ^_^

    Vinnie said this July 19th, 2008 at 7:43

  9. Is this plugin also available for mac?

    Jan said this July 19th, 2008 at 11:24

  10. is there a mac plugin?

    wayne said this July 19th, 2008 at 11:30

  11. Official release will be available for Mac. This prerelease works only on Windows. It’s all explained in the article. Sorry guys, but I’m just tired of answering question that I already answered in the article long before someone ever asked them in the comments, so READ THE DAMN THING!

    Maltaannon said this July 19th, 2008 at 11:35

  12. Hey, very nice to see that your self-written program to show keyboard-input in the upper right corner works well :) Seems like it didnt catch that “Alt-Click” action but nevertheless its pretty cool.

    Btw, new fan from Germany. Haha you caused me to buy that CS3 Production Premium ;) Thanks for all your work and especially this plugin!
    I think its perfect to use if you dont work with real life videos and more with old-fashioned 8/16 bit console graphics, like i’ll do :)

    Waiting for the next vid :D

    Johannes said this July 20th, 2008 at 10:53

  13. Pretty Good, Thank You so much for your Good Job.

    Joey said this July 20th, 2008 at 19:34

  14. 10x man! another Guinness Solution for our small :) community .
    i used to watch only copilot, since i have been in your site (only a week ago) i cant stop watching whats comes next! man i can do all i dreamed for! F***ing expressions .! :)
    10x again man
    (hope u liked watching my videoClip, the green monster tacking over Tel Aviv)
    Cya

    Amit (hellanimation) said this July 20th, 2008 at 23:14

  15. I was wondering if in the website that these footage were uberstock , are they free there or we can only buy them from istockphoto ?

    Nkolev said this July 21st, 2008 at 9:46

  16. Dziękują Maltaannon and Avidion Media!

    I am looking forward to seeing the Mac version of Motion Grabber.

    Best,
    James Wicks
    Zfx Studios
    Florida, USA

    James Wicks said this July 21st, 2008 at 13:13

  17. thanks for the free tutorials,really an amazing resource

    Arthur said this July 22nd, 2008 at 19:32

  18. Great little plugin mate, thanks a ton. Very useful for flash animation inside AE :)

    Bwe said this July 23rd, 2008 at 3:11

  19. Mr.Maltaannon I’ve a problem about affter effects. I don’t have a “cc effects” when I open simulation. If you know This please help me again please. I need Thouse effects so much. I’m sory for my English Thanks a lot. This is great job good!!! I will wait you Mr.Maltaannon abduhalilov91@mail.ru

    Shavkat said this July 25th, 2008 at 19:01

  20. CC Effects are on the installation disk.

    Maltaannon said this July 25th, 2008 at 22:00

  21. Hey Maltaannon!

    You’ll be happy to know I used this plug in today not once, not twice but 32 times! Very usefull for what I needed to do.

    Danke

    Brickone said this July 25th, 2008 at 22:07

  22. Hey. Thats great! Hope to see how you used it. If it’s confidential or you’re simply not allowed to show it to the public just drop me an email via the contact form on the contact page. Cheers

    Maltaannon said this July 25th, 2008 at 23:00

  23. f***ing noob

    blablabla said this August 3rd, 2008 at 1:06

  24. Check your mail, puto. I’m trying to reach You for like 3 days now :(

    Your think tank loader :) said this August 7th, 2008 at 20:11

  25. slick stuff. conceptually simple 4 those who even kind of like math. yet much more difficult to create i’m sure. seems very useful. haven’t used yet. but trust me i will. keep up the good work.

    vic said this August 8th, 2008 at 5:14

  26. hey man I just found your site and i have to say it is just amazing I been looking for a place to get deeper into expressions as you may know there no training AE expressions only but Harry´s from greymachine.
    Dont you have any training dvd on expressions on sale if not
    are you thinking of making one
    that would be really great cause it really hard to learn this topic on one´s own
    please let us know
    i will be waiting for an answer
    thanks in advance

    ed said this August 10th, 2008 at 0:57

  27. I am planning a secret something that involves expressions, but I’m not gonna share that secret just yet. But I am working on Making It Look Great DVD. The tutorials will also include some cool expressions.Hope you’ll like them.

    Maltaannon said this August 10th, 2008 at 1:59

  28. J.
    thx for all the great work u do and and share with us.

    Bogdan said this August 21st, 2008 at 17:25

  29. hi every body
    this is very nive tutorial but i face some broblam, aculy we need cc glugins, any body have than send my id , and tell me one thing how can i download this tutorial? faysal_saher@hotmail.com

    faysal said this August 27th, 2008 at 21:25

  30. How can a get that keyboard-input plugin that are you using?

    Delgadeth said this August 30th, 2008 at 15:48

  31. you are refering to my KeySnatcher. it will be on sale when it’s ready. more info here: http://maltaannon.com/blog/keysnatcher/

    Maltaannon said this August 30th, 2008 at 17:12

  32. Gracias amigo! Thanks for share your mind!! :)

    Joan said this September 1st, 2008 at 17:51

  33. Thanks for sharing! It’s much appreciated :)

    Elena said this September 3rd, 2008 at 4:36

  34. Very useful, spectacular like always, thanks for this share George.

    Greetings. CC³.

    CristalCube said this September 17th, 2008 at 22:18

  35. This is a spectacular freebie. thank you!

    patrick siemer said this December 2nd, 2008 at 2:39

  36. Watching the tutorial I noticed an interesting parameter. Getting to know the exact dimensions of a text layer have always been a problem, but this plug in solves it in just one click. I know it’s not the main function that this plug was designed for, but just for that feature its a must.
    Well, congratulations on everything you’ve done. Keep it up.
    And happy “after effectin”.

    andrés said this December 4th, 2008 at 16:17

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