Hi, I’m trying to track the Monorail (tracking file+footage attached).

The problem is that the footage isn’t ideal. I think the camera motion tracking is more or less okay, but the object-tracking of the monorail doesn’t really work because it isn’t consistently and fully visible.

The mesh is only there to capture some rough reflections in the end - my goal is to wrap 3D fairy lights around the train.

I’m taking care of masking etc. in After Effects; what I really need is a reasonably solid object-track of the train for the 3D fairy lights.

Maybe there are some dirty tricks to achieve this. I’ve tried simply animating the train by hand and even playing with animating the focal length, but that didn’t really work either.

Thanks in advance!

File:
https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0ecdtw9TeUd1j1WmjHPwYEeaw#Cinneversity%5FObject_Tracking