MotionGrabber Preview
Posted on 18. Jul, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr in After Effects
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.
Click here to watch the video tutorial
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: MotionGrabber PreRelease (Windows)
Download: MotionGrabber PreRelease (Macintosh)
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.
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abe
18. Jul, 2008
You are up there man, cool stuff cant wait to see the finished product. Thanks for free preview.
Aldie
18. Jul, 2008
Thanks again for the free preview Bro!!!! God bless you for this!!!! cheers.
pakistan
18. Jul, 2008
Something is not right wit the uberstock.com link, I suppose.
Maltaannon
18. Jul, 2008
I’ve noticed. Probably temporarily. They said they are still working on it. But iStockPhoto link works.
Joe Tonsing
18. Jul, 2008
Thanks for the tutorial and the plug-ins…
love live Maltaannon.com
ömer tatlisoz
18. Jul, 2008
thanks maltaannon:)
vianz
19. Jul, 2008
I cannot access uberstock.com
Vinnie
19. Jul, 2008
You are so awesome, but I guess you know that already ^_^
Jan
19. Jul, 2008
Is this plugin also available for mac?
wayne
19. Jul, 2008
is there a mac plugin?
Maltaannon
19. Jul, 2008
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!
Johannes
20. Jul, 2008
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
Joey
20. Jul, 2008
Pretty Good, Thank You so much for your Good Job.
Amit (hellanimation)
20. Jul, 2008
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
Nkolev
21. Jul, 2008
I was wondering if in the website that these footage were uberstock , are they free there or we can only buy them from istockphoto ?
James Wicks
21. Jul, 2008
Dziękują Maltaannon and Avidion Media!
I am looking forward to seeing the Mac version of Motion Grabber.
Best,
James Wicks
Zfx Studios
Florida, USA
Arthur
22. Jul, 2008
thanks for the free tutorials,really an amazing resource
Bwe
23. Jul, 2008
Great little plugin mate, thanks a ton. Very useful for flash animation inside AE :)
Shavkat
25. Jul, 2008
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
Maltaannon
25. Jul, 2008
CC Effects are on the installation disk.
Brickone
25. Jul, 2008
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
Maltaannon
25. Jul, 2008
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
blablabla
03. Aug, 2008
f***ing noob
Your think tank loader :)
07. Aug, 2008
Check your mail, puto. I’m trying to reach You for like 3 days now :(
vic
08. Aug, 2008
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.
ed
10. Aug, 2008
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
Maltaannon
10. Aug, 2008
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.
Bogdan
21. Aug, 2008
J.
thx for all the great work u do and and share with us.
faysal
27. Aug, 2008
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
Delgadeth
30. Aug, 2008
How can a get that keyboard-input plugin that are you using?
Maltaannon
30. Aug, 2008
you are refering to my KeySnatcher. it will be on sale when it’s ready. more info here: http://maltaannon.com/blog/keysnatcher/
Joan
01. Sep, 2008
Gracias amigo! Thanks for share your mind!! :)
Elena
03. Sep, 2008
Thanks for sharing! It’s much appreciated :)
CristalCube
17. Sep, 2008
Very useful, spectacular like always, thanks for this share George.
Greetings. CC³.
patrick siemer
02. Dec, 2008
This is a spectacular freebie. thank you!
andrés
04. Dec, 2008
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”.
Arnold
07. Jan, 2009
This is truly an awesome I have had great results.
Just a quick Question?
Does this increase the render time massively?
Maltaannon
07. Jan, 2009
No. Not at all. This is just like “Create Keyframes from Audio” – it just generates keyframes. Nothing more. Does not affect the render in any way.
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Menna_Mahmoud
10. Dec, 2009
i tried using this cool plug_in and the final render was as expected, but when i tried to re-render the same file again with making no changes it didn’t work.
any particular reason for that?..
Jerzy Drozda Jr
10. Dec, 2009
Hard to tell. The plug generates keyframes, so it doesn’t do anything while it’s on the layer. It might be a different issue.
Никита
01. Jan, 2010
Естественно присоединяюсь к вышесказанному!
dmitry
09. Mar, 2010
Все так и есть :)
Alptonay
01. Jun, 2010
I know you, your site, your tuts but I knew I’ve missed something.. I have seen that tut just about 10 minutes ago :s This is one of the great tools!.. ;) thank you
damian3k
26. Aug, 2010
Realy cool plugin. Thanks!