Tutorials for Motion stabilizing
by Stephen Vilas
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May 4, 2009 at 1:47:00 pm
I have several shots that I would like to stabilize (or at least see if its worth the time and effort).
Some of the shots are long pans so all the reference points on frame 1 go offscreen after a few seconds. I dont fully understand how to adjust the tracking points once they are off screen. could someone point me to some good Shake tutorials online that might deal with this? any suggestions for workflow are always welcome as well.
I initially tried the Smoothcam filter in FCP on some of the shots that had a fixed frame. most of the results arent bad but some have this blurry, almost underwater effect which i dont find very attractive. is the Smoothcam node in Shake similar to the one in FCP?
I believe that FCP's smoothcam filter was lifted from Shake, so you may get similar results.
You can steady the shot and eliminate camera motion, but you can't get rid of motion blur
from the camera motion, which can look pretty strange when there's no more motion.
Is that the underwater effect you're seeing?
Re: Tutorials for Motion stabilizing by Les Stuck on May 4, 2009 at 10:19:39 pm
> Some of the shots are long pans so all the reference points on frame 1 go offscreen after a few seconds.
If you're using a tracker, you can track up until the reference point goes offscreen,
the move the tracker to a new reference point using control-drag.
Tutorial 7 of the Shake tutorials that came with the application
(/Applications/Shake/doc/Shake4Tutorials.pdf)
does a great job of explaining.
Re: Tutorials for Motion stabilizing by Burt Hazard on May 5, 2009 at 5:42:03 pm
Yep, that's true, Apple took the tracking, stabilizing, and optical flow technology from Shake and integrated them into both FCP and Motion.
Also, I can recommend the Gnomon Shake training DVDs; one DVD featuring Shake expert Matt Linder deals with "Tracking & Transforms," sold separately for $69 with the bundled set for $300.
