I'll put this to rest.

Many of these principle are the same regardless of it being a still image or from a plate. Its up to you how you apply the knowledge. There are many different ways to one thing in this industry, you have to choose your tools of choice that suit your needs.

Whether its live action into a cg scene or a cg object into a live plate, its the same thing.

Usually a plate will get tracked in order for 3d objects to be inserted into the scene so everything follows. We have a tutorial for this on the site.

The 3d objects are then rendered using an hdri or whatever light setup you choose to use to match your environment. Dont rely totally on HDRI to match a plate, its good but they are never accurate, so its worth getting to know lighting using standard lights as well. Dont just follow fashions, the best artists use the simplest tricks. Once the render is done of your object then its down to you to comp it into the plate using nuke or after effects, it makes no difference, they do the same thing.

The links that were provided will get you on the right path, nobody is going to give you the perfect answer. its like anything else, learn the basics, develop a work flow that works for you at your level and then proceed from there...just look learn and ask questions, always ask questions, and search for answers, someone will have a way to do one thing someone another.

Eat3d have a couple of good ones too on cg into a live plate....


best of luck!!

Jay