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Natural looking Stabilize Motion ?
Recently I needed to shoot handheld and I later Stabilized the footage in AE but it looked too good. Therefor I pickwhipped to a Null and wiggled it slightly and it looked way more natural. Now, is there a way to adjust how much to stabilize? I figure it should be possible to somehow use an expression, but how?
JZM
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i think the way you did it was the right way… and you did use an expression, wiggle()…
the reason i would do it that way, is you’ll have better control over how much ‘natural’ wiggle you want to re-introduce to the shot.
if you wanted to experiment some, you could try the smoother feature (window>smoother) on the keyframes that were generated by the tracker. note, that the smoother is destructive, it will alter the keyframes that were generated. but it would mostlikely reduce the amount of correction that the tracker did.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
1) This Filip Vandueren expression is a good way to use a percent of the original camera movement, on Position of the layer stabilized (after stabilization):
precision= 50; // use a percentage from 0-100 % ,
position= ( value*precision + anchorPoint*(100-precision))/100 ;https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/814060
And you get 50% of the original camera movement back.
You could even put it on a slider and easily see what you like.
Add a slider to the layer (Effect>Expression Controls>Slider Control). Name the slider “percent stabilize” )or whatever you want, press Enter on a selected slider to rename). And with a pickwhip the expression becomes this:
precision= effect(“percent stabilize”)(“Slider”); // use a percentage from 0-100 % ,
position= ( value*precision + anchorPoint*(100-precision))/100 -
Thanks Kevin and Yikesmikes!
I’ll try this out!JZM
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The Vandueren stuff was great and with the added slider it is exactly what I needed! Now I can even keyframe the percent! I’m in total control, yeah!
Thanks again!
JZM
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that is a nice expression, thanks mike (and filip).
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
total control
Now that’s scary.
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