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Stabilizing a shot in Z space…
Hello Everyone,
First of all sorry for my english…
I have a simple request of something i never faced…
So i used a Pico Flex table dolly to make a low shot of an actor laying on the floor,
the camera mouvement is really simple, close up to wide shot, in a linear path, the thing is the mouvement is’nt fluid so i managed using mocha to stabilize X and Y perfectly but i wondered if there was a way to stablize the Z mouvement so the motion will be like a linear curve in animation…Maybe asking to much in post prod.. but nowadays we never know, if someone had a clue it would be incredibly usefull,
Thanks in advance
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Seems to me you’ll need to time remap the footage, probably manually. I can’t think of any other way to smooth a z-dolly shot.
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[Chris Buttacoli] “Seems to me you’ll need to time remap the footage, probably manually. I can’t think of any other way to smooth a z-dolly shot.”
Clever!
A 3D track will help a lot. You could tweak time-remapping while keeping an eye on a tracked point’s Z-position.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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1. timeremap and use smooth() expression if you have enough fps data
2. timewarp to create new frames while averaging new smoothing frames.
free ae cs3 aep
https://www.mediafire.com/?75ywcxmvo1am5k73. virtualdub’s deshaker supports zoom smoothing
https://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm4. syntheyes supports zoom
zoom tutorial
https://www.ssontech.com/content/zoomtut.htm -
Thanks Walter, i knew there was a solution using 3d tracking, did’nt thought about this one !!
I’ll try it! -
Thanks, i’ll check that, for the zoom tracking there is actually no focal change during the shot so it my not be the solution… 🙂
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