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Greenscreened static foreground with handheld background?
The background footage already exists, and was shot hand-held on a tight lense (it was a deliberate style choice.. and nothing to do with me!)
What’s the best (economical) way to make statically shot (greenscreened) talking heads mimic the camera shake of the already existing background footage? Is it at all possible within FCP?
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When you green screened the talent, did you add tracking markers to the green screen? They are a different shade of green, but still VERY close. You would use these to attach tracking markers to the background to mimic the movement. Motion has very good motion tracking, and the Primatte keyer, so you could do this all there. Without those markers you will have to rely on the talent, or other visible thing.
Shane
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Send to Motion. You already own it, how’s that for economical?
Motion has a motion tracker…should probably be able to do what you want.
In the Motion help menu, select 3D and Tracking for more info.
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Thanks John for that brainwave!
Although I’ve used the Motion tab within FCP’s Viewer, I’ve never actually used Motion itself.
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Thanks Shane for the markers tip. Fortunately, the talent hasn’t been shot yet so not too late to use markers!
I’m probably jumping the gun here because this job is only half-confirmed… but the perspective that needs emulating is quite shallow (i.e. zoomed in). Do I need to make sure that the tracking markers on the greenscreen background are also sharp/in-focus to remain usable?
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You could also try the smoothcam plugin on the background shot. If it is a just a bit wobbly it might smooth it enough.
Make sure you make a short QT file of the background or smoothcam will try to analyse a huge shot depending on how you captured.
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