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A jitery Vericle pan
hey guys Im stuck
i have about 30 seconds of footage where the camera (sitting on a tripod) basically just pans from one side of a room to the other in a kind of ‘panorama’ view. but my tripod needs to be ‘oiled’ and it came out all jerky and the speed of the pan isn’t constant so it’ll go form a fast pan to a slow pan and get stuck…whatever it’s bad and very noticeable.
what can i do to fix.
i tried stabilizing but that didn’t work and i tried playing a little with the speeds of the video but i don’t really understand how that works , and now im out of ideas…
Any help fast (as i need to give this to a client asap) would be amazing
Alon -
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Stabilizing in the tracker controls is really all I can think of. You’ll also probably need to reduce the dimensions of your comp in order to compensate for the stabilization.
2d3 makes a cool plugin called SteadyMove Pro that apparently works miracles on shaky footage, so if you have the $500 to spare, it might be worth it.
Then again, $500 will buy you quite a bit of tripod oil…
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
Audio Production & Imaging
MS Visual Studio Developer
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Oops, didn’t paste the part about the speed of the pan.
As for the speed of the pan, this is a tough one – You can use time remapping. You might be able to use the motion tracker as a reference… Figure out how many frames it takes for one point to cover x pixels, then time remap the sections where you feel you need to correct the speed into that same number of pixels per frame.
All this very well may take longer than re-shooting. Just a thought.
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
Audio Production & Imaging
MS Visual Studio Developer
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as christian describes, tracking the pan to smooth it out is about the only way i can think of.
what i think i’d do is use the tracker to stabilize the shot. basically, what you are going to do is remove the pan all together. then you’ll need to keyframe the position of the clip to put a smooth pan back into the shot.
if you can’t keep one track point within the frame for the pan, then you’ll need to track multiple points as the camera pans, then use those for the stabilization. here’s a tutorial that demonstrates how to use multiple tracking points:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/set_extensions/
Kevin Camp
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