Smoothen Motion Tracking Result???

[Joey Foreman]

Try selecting all the keyframes and adding Smoother (Window > Smoother), playing with different values. Undo if you don’t like the results, and tweak to taste.
There is also a Smooth expression, but I haven’t used it.

[Philippe Lessard]

Hi Sasha,

If you look in your windows menu in After Effects, you should see the smoother, click it, it open a windows where you can choose a tolerance to smooth your “pos/rot/scale” keys.Select all the key you want to smooth then try to use a tolerance of 1 ,should do the trick, otherwise play with the tolerance.There also a script called tracker viz, but I never tried it, maybe you should look at it.

Hope this help

[Sascha Engel]

HI Thanx for the fast Reaction. I tried it, but I am facing some problems. I can just select always some keyframes in a row – then the smoother ‘apply’ button highlightens. When I select all in one line – it stays greyed out. And I do not have options to choose (just spatial). When it’s set to 1 it seems to make it even jerkier than it was 🙁

Any idea?

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

Thanx Dave, I will give it a shot.
Funny is that it’s not bad – it just tracks it too good 🙂
I will try the pre-blur, maybe that will bake the cake.

Greetings,

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

Well, I tried a lot, re-tracking, smoothening, just applying to x-axis and so on.
But it is still jerky.
Could it have to do something with the fact, that it is Apple Intermediate Codec / Quicktime file?

Sascha

[Joey Foreman]

Doubtful. AIC is a great codec.

Have you tried just randomly removing intermittent keyframes, changing their interpolation, and/or selecting all but the 1st and last keyframes, right-clicking and choosing Rove Across Time?

Also try posting this to the Expressions forum to see if anyone there has some ideas.

[James Autery]

I’m also having trouble with the smoother window. The apply button is greyed out. Any ideas why? Here’s a screen shot.