Stabilizing to remove an element then reintroducing the camera movement

[Sam Moulton]

Sounds much to complicated for me. When I stabilize footage so I can work on something or add something I always expand the dimensions of the comp where the stabilized footage lives then do my work. I then then drag the comp into a standard size comp and add a simple value+ expression to the nested comp’s position property. This restores all movement to the original footage and fits it back in the frame.

something like this:

value + comp(“NestedBigComp”).layer(“stabilized footage”).anchorPoint

[Sam Moulton]

forgot to say that if you are working with footage that’s the same size as your comp and you don’t want it to move you don’t need the value + statement. I’ve been working with HD projects that are full of stabilized and positioned sd footage in windows. sorry for the confusion

[David Dubois]

Thanks for all of the ideas.
I suspected expression might have to rear their ugly heads (I am trying to use them more)! and the Null objects also cleanedd up the process a bit.
As I’ve done a dirty fix on the problem It’s working for now BUT when I’ve finished cutting the film I’ll try these out and feedback with any questions/comments.

Thanks to all again for helping to clean up my dirty, dirty process!

Dave

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