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Date Created
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
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Short Desc
When using the After Effects CS6 Track Camera feature, you might run into some issues regarding your footage, and the tracker.
Details
After Effects CS6 has a really cool new feature called Tracking Camera. However, using the Tracking Camera feature with your footage, you might receive the following error:

unable to solve camera for this frame

There are going to be more than one Scenario for this issue, and each one will be posted when we come across it.
Recreate Issue
To recreate this issue:

Scenario #1:
Load footage that is all over the place, where the camera moves a lot, and the subjects within the footage, are not always in the same place.
Resolve Issue
To resolve this issue:

Scenario #1:
After you import the footage into your project,
scroll through and find where you want to add in the 3D Camera Tracking.
Once you have found the section, make sure that from the
Beginning -to- the Ending
That the footage does not have any type of obstacle that could
cause the Camera Tracker, to get off its course.

Remove the sections of the footage that you will not be using.
Only keep the footage that you will be tracking.
This will ensure that the Tracker will only track good quality footage only.

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