[Dan Cowles]

Makes sense … any suggestions for a good all purpose stereo mic for this unit for the aforementioned ambience, effects, field sound?

[Dan Cowles]

Just an update … I don’t know if you’d call this a bug or not, but I solved this problem. It only happens when you’re tracking and your source footage is less than full res. My viewer resolution was set at half when I was having this issue. When I set it to full, the tracker worked fine.

[Dan Cowles]

Not exactly sure what you’re trying to solve, but you could try a de-noiser … a decent one comes with Key Correct Pro and you may be able to find a free one if you hunt around.:

https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/keycorrect.html

Or you could try a up-rez’er like InstantHD:

https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/instanthd.html

or Resizer

https://www.digitalanarchy.com/resizer/resizer_main.html

with a review/comparison of sorts here:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/review_resizer_2_douglas.html

[Dan Cowles]

… and if you’re shooting for the web, you’ll have even better results as your baseline resolution is much better … think of it like a megapixel camera … you start with a very big high-res file and scale it down to meet you needs. Once you’ve key’ed it you have a lot of flexibility around scaling and positioning in your finished comp.

[Dan Cowles]

I think it depends on what your output will be … if you’re shooting HDV to use in a standard def show, then you’ll get better results than plain old DV because you’d be scaling down your footage, minimizing your stairstepping and edge garbage …

[Dan Cowles]

Just for the record … I went back to AE 6.5 and it worked beautifully, so I logged a bug w/Adobe.

I’d love to hear if anyone else is having this issue.

D

[Dan Cowles]

I think you’re maybe missing the point … I’ve tracked the thing fine. My track is accurate. I know all about motion blur. That isn’t the problem either, I know how to make tracked footage look good. The problem is that the target object doens’t get put in remotely the right place, and I’m unable to fix it through other methods. Furthermore, I have a workaround, which is to track it in Silhouette, the roto tool from SilhouetteFX, and export the tracker data from there and apply it to my layer back in AE. That works, but it’s a pain in the ass and it would be great if AE’s tracker worked right.

My main questions are: is this a bug? Is there a way, through changing the relationship between feature center, anchor point and attach point to fix the problem, possibly using a null object? And has anyone else has this issue.

Thanks – also, I’ve typed a lot around this, so please read the whole thread carefully before answering.

[Dan Cowles]

It’s a shot of guy working at a computer monitor. It was shot on greenscreen, with markers on the screen. It was shot with the camer on a big old crane and a the guy on a turntable which revolves at the same time, so the shot starts above and the guy turns as the crane lowers and zooms in to his screen.

I’m not having a problem getting good tracking accuracy, but for some reason the tracking points – attach point and feature center data, are showing up offscreen. I understand there is a relationship between my anchor point and my tracking data, so I have tried parenting the target to a null and applyinmg the track to the null, but I’m still having some weird issues.

I’ve done this a fair amount in the past, and haven’t had this problem. I’m wondering if it’s because I’m working with HD/AE 7, or if it’s me.

Thanks for any help, I really appreciate it

[Dan Cowles]

Ack! Never mind, I figured it out … I had view set to ‘Front’, not ‘Active Camera’

[Dan Cowles]

Ack! Never mind, I figured it out … I had view set to ‘Front’, not ‘Active Camera’