[Ajay Brar]

here is what it looks like

[Ajay Brar]

I added timewarp but when I do a RAM preview the footage starts cutting up – in that there is a pan over a bedroom poster and parts of the poster drift out of place, and start appearing on other parts of the wall.

I have used the default settings, selected pixel motion, speed at 50%.

Any ideas on why it is doing that rather than simply slowing down the movement of the camera?

[Ajay Brar]

The tutorials are helpful but my scenario is different. It is a panning motion and not a simple one across an area but a camera travelling through a room – over a wall, floor, bed and so on.

So I guess what I am looking for is smoothing more than anything. I want to eliminate the slight jerks from the handheld movement and make it into a nice smooth continuous motion.

[Ajay Brar]

So I have been trying the AE motion stabilise without much success.

I can now get the track points going without problem. From your posts and the net, seems like you can use multiple objects by
1. Moving the region with the Opt (i have a mac) key pressed to a new object in frame.
2. Creating a null object and copying the keyframe data to it. Then continuing with new track points and then copying its data and so on.

The problem is the pan though. If I try and stabilise, it will try and maintain the object at the same point which means I will be left with a blank screen as it tries to offset the pan motion. The soln from another web tutorial was to manually change the position to compensate for this or use the expression AnchorPoint.smooth.

I tried this with smooth(.2,5) and its still jerky. Something to point out here is that the original footage is a little jerky as opposed to being shaky and this jerkiness doesn’t go away with doing the above. I also had to get rid of the rotation offsets because since the camera moves from the wall and looks down at the floor and then around the bed, the rotation stabilising is way off.

I am now going to try the timewarp that you suggested and if that doesn’t do it, the deshaker after that.

Lot of pain for a 33second clip!

[Ajay Brar]

Thanks for your replies.

The tracks were at a low level so I have decided to stick with the dual mono.

A couple more questions:
1. I have someone throwing a glass away in the footage. The glass is thrown to the left so I want to have that effect of the sound moving and ending in the left. The way I see it, you can do this in two ways: either set volume of the right track to go down. So you only have the sound coming from the left. Or have the right track also pan to the left. Any advantages of doing one over the other?

2. I don’t plan on doing any effects on only one track beyond what I mentioned above so just playing with the volume / pan a little bit. Will that cause any issues?

thanks again