simulating shake from still footage

[Enzo Tedeschi]

If you have 6.5 Pro bundle or above, you can use the Motion Tracker. Works very well, provided you have one or two constant areas that you can stabilise against. Check the manual for how it works exactly.

Enzo Tedeschi
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Sydney, Australia

[Tom Carter]

The motion tracker is useful for stabilising shakey footage, if you want to add shake to still footage I usually use a wiggle expression, if you’ve not used expressions before it’s very easy:

> Select the layer and hit ‘p’ to reveal its postion property.

> Alt-cmd click (alt-click in windows?) the position stopwatch to add an expression, and replace the work ‘position’ with ‘wiggle(10,20)’, without the quotes.

This should wiggle the image in the comp, hopefully giving a handheld look. You can play around with the numbers in the brackets to achieve the right level of shake, the first number controls the frequency (ie how many times a second it shakes), the second controls the amplitude (ie the distance it moves). In the above example it will move 10 times a second, and between 20 pixels above and below the starting value.

Don’t forget to make your image slightly bigger than the comp to allow for the movement.

Hope this helps,
Tom

[Enzo Tedeschi]

My apologies for misreading the initial post.

Enzo Tedeschi
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Editor
Sydney, Australia