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  • Is it possible to stabilize these 4 corners?

    Posted by Anthony Sneed on June 16, 2025 at 7:34 pm

    I’m wondering if I can stabilize ALL four corners of these printouts that I turn into animation. As you can see, I can only do two corners which works for the most part but it would be a dream if I could lock down all four of them to get the image as stable as possible.

    I’ve tried doing corner pin in the tracker window, but I’m a bit lost and not sure if that’s how to do it. I’ve lined up all for trackers where they need to be but the “target” is greyed out, so I’ve tried to double the layer and add it to that but it doesn’t work.

    https://vimeo.com/1093825876/835346e583?share=copy

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    John Martin
    replied 10 months, 2 weeks ago
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  • John Martin

    June 16, 2025 at 7:42 pm

    yo Anthony, yes it’s fully possible, but i need 1 thing from you for me to do it and send you a tutorial: upload the full quality file on Google Drive, shoot the link here and i’ll take care of it.

  • Anthony Sneed

    June 16, 2025 at 8:29 pm

    Hey John, thank you so much!

    Here’s a different clip, same idea:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UNNYkJe7f988l_S1AHUautCZYehxmgj2/view?usp=sharing

  • Anthony Sneed

    June 16, 2025 at 8:38 pm

    Sorry I didn’t reply directly to your message. Don’t want to get it lost.

  • Anthony Sneed

    June 17, 2025 at 12:32 am

  • John Martin

    June 17, 2025 at 4:10 am

    yeah. i was sleeping. woke up now, working on it now. you’ll heart from me very soon.

  • John Martin

    June 17, 2025 at 5:45 am

    here it is, lemme know if you like it and i make a tutorial for you!

  • Anthony Sneed

    June 17, 2025 at 6:15 am

    Yeah, it’s good but a bit jumpy in the eyebrows. I would like to see a tutorial if possible because you can always tweak these things.

    FWIW I learned how to do this in fusion with some pretty great results, though not as perfect as I think it can be with AE pins

  • John Martin

    June 17, 2025 at 7:13 am

    Before I record the tutorial, check this new render:

    do you confirm that this result is better than what you’ve gotten so far and that, consequently, you’d be happy to know more about the trick i used?

  • Eric Santiago

    June 17, 2025 at 2:56 pm

    Not sure if this was mentioned but for the eyes one, you could have cropped to the motion area and leave a static of the non motion area intact.

  • John Martin

    June 17, 2025 at 3:37 pm

    Good catch, that is indeed part of the trick, but it seems that he is not online anymore, let’s hope he sees the new render!

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