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  • motion stabilizing questions

    Posted by Dustin on April 6, 2005 at 4:03 pm

    Is there a way to motion track your footage for stabilizing purposes, and then decreases the magnitude by which it stabilizes, kind of, a balance between stabilizing and resolution loss. Also, is there a way to see the motion path of the stabilized video, and smooth it out by hand further by using bezier curves?

    Dustin replied 21 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Hans Van vliet

    April 7, 2005 at 12:33 am

    Hey,

    I don’t really understand the 1st question. The 2nd one is pretty easy, just do a stablize track. Then apply that to the footage. Then go back to the comp and have a look at the anchor (press A) and you’ll see all your tracking stuff applied there. Now you can del keys and smooth things out to hand if you want .. that might help with the 1st question.

    ..::hunz..

  • Dustin

    April 7, 2005 at 4:50 am

    rather than using the track point as a point that must stay exactly pinned to where it is told, based on the motion tracker, can it be allowed to shake around just like it did before, only less. You would be stabilizing the footage, but allowing the footage to still be a little shakey. The reason I want to know is that, some shots, aren’t too bad and only need minor stabilization, and would work fine with a little shake, but since the tracker will pin whatever item is in the tracking square right where it is, it allows it no movement at all, thus making it so you have to zoom in your video much more to hide the edges of the stabilizing, also, eating away your resolution. I want to be able to smooth out some video, although not perfectly smooth, for the price of gaining a little more resolution, or rather, not having to give up so much resolution. Does that make more sense?

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