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Stabilizing scans
Hi everybody!
I’m having trouble stabilizing a handdrawn animation.
Every frame looks like this:
Stabilizing should be done using the two black squares.
I tried using the point tracker in After Effects, but the individual scans differ too greatly in position. This confuses the tracker.
Any thoughts on how to fixate these two squares for every frame?
Greetings
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You can make the search area larger on the point tracker. Or you could track in Mocha.
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I already tried making the area larger.
Is Mocha much better? -
Not “better” just different. It uses completely different technology for tracking which makes it better for some things and worse for others.
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[Thomas Vermaercke] “Stabilizing should be done using the two black squares.”
If those black squares are hand-drawn, too, the variation from frame to frame could be enough to mess up your track. You might be better off with a printed hashmark or maybe just an ink dot.
Have you tried the warp stabilizer on the clip?
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
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That is a good point. Your best bet would be to print a sticker image with a pattern for each frame, rather than draw it yourself. This is a typical motion tracking marker image:
https://ridgelinetutorials.com/blog/free-motion-tracking-markersNote that planar tracking is probably overkill for this. Simple point tracker should work fine.
Ross Shain
Imagineer Systems
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