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Is it possible to set more than one motion tracking point in After Affects CS6 at the same time in the same scene?

For example one track point closer to our viewpoint, and another one that follows the background (therefore with a slower movement). To achieve a more realistic effect.

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Depends on what you are trying to do achieve, it sounds like you are doing a combination of 3d tracking or something.

But to answer your question technically no, you can only track one part at a time, you could track multiple points to gauge rotation and scale but its only going to affect one object at the end. You would create a null object target the track to the null and then submit. You would need to do another track on the second point separately.

No if you are trying to track to simulate a parallax in 3d space, one thing you can do is us AE expressions, if you dont know how to do this, do a simple google search, and something like this would get you where you need to be.

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I couldn't understand what you are trying to accomplish but you should check Imagineer Systems' planar tracking tool, Mocha. After Effects CS6 comes with a basic copy. Basically, Mocha does not track features or points, it tracks planes. You can watch their training videos on their websites.

If it fits your needs there is a pro version which does much more.

AE's tracker is very good and powerful but in some cases Mocha handles the tracking better.

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