Jake Owen’s ‘Yee Haw’ video

[Nate Hanson]

My guess is he motion tracked a given item in the video (microphone, person’s face, bottle, etc.) for position and rotation and then stabilized the image around that object. You’d need to scale up your footage so the edges don’t appear to be moving into frame once the tracking data has been applied. Watch this tutorial, as part of it accomplishes what you are asking about:

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial.html?id=11

Midway through the process he has the whole image rotating around the guy’s face which is perfectly still.

Nate

[Joe Moya]

For a lot of the shots…Nates idea will probably work…

Except where there are dramatic video movements relative to the still object…The introduction where (for example) they use a clock to spin the background around… in that case, I would mask out the clock and rotate a background layer.

In fact, the more I think about it… if you have mocha you could just mask out any focal point (…like the beer bottle, mixing flasks as examples in the video)… create two layers… one with the sinlge masked object and the other with the video background… rotate the background and ya’ got it… unfortunately, if you don’t have imagineer’s mocha then this masking idea would be difficult to do using AE only…but, it can be done if the video is filmed appropriately.

That being said, in some instance there seems to be rotations that are simply that… the frames are zoomed/enlarged and simply rotated… nothing more.

[Mark Walden]

I did some test shots and followed your suggestions, plus stuff from the Andrew Kramer tutorial and it worked out great.

Thank you for the input. I ended up getting the job because of it.

raz

[Nate Hanson]

High five!

Nate