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tracking warp stabilized footage
I have a piece of HD video in PPro that’s a guy driving in a car, talking to the camera. I took advantage of the new warp stabilize feature in AE 5.5 to steady the shot. It worked like a charm. But now I need to mask a window in the vehicle to drop the levels a bit to even out the shot. In a perfect world, I would parent the mask I’ve created to some parameter in the Warp Stabilizer effect, but I don’t see anything keyframeable in there. Can I do this? How?
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I’m thinking I got the process backwards…I should have made the mask on a duplicate layer, precomped both layers and then run the warp stabilize on the precomp…?
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You’re right–it’s not warp stabilizing the precomp in any good way at all…anybody from Adobe got an idea on this?
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Warp Stabilizer isn’t a traditional tracker, so you won’t have tracking data like you’re expecting.
Depending on your footage, you may be able to outsmart the Warp Stabilizer [link] to lock down the window in the shot, then use a static mask.
Otherwise, Mocha-AE might be a good choice, or you may even be able to use some garbage masks and luma keying to isolate the window.
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