it is possible to stabilize panning shot

What you do it set up multiple instances of stabilizing track data. depending on the lenght, you may have to do two or three.

You start at the beginning, and when you stabilization points are just getting off camera, stop the motion track, and start again with what is coming into frame. Then just repeat.

Then, apply all that track data to a null, and parent your original footage to that null.
 
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CaptainMench said:
Did you want to "STOP" the pan... or ease the verticle wiggles of the pan??

CaptM
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Good to see you Cap. From the brief description, it sounded like he wanted to stabilize a shot, but since it was a panning shot, any track data points would go out of frame.
 
Well -- to the uninitiated... stabilize might be confused for smoothing...

Not really sure he'd want to actually stabilize a pan... unless it didn't pan that much.

Hmmmm

Of course your answer would be correct... just wanted to clarify.

CaptM
 
Is it a long shot? if you have space; drop it on there I'll do the best I can to fix it for ya. Need some practice in AE anyways :)
 
damn....wish I know how to do that too dmitry yun.....


I did try andrew kreamer tutorials but frame rotated all over the places...I think his tutorials is for a stable shot.....mine is a panning shot
 
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Matt Grunau said:
heh. If you read my first post, you would see that I told him exactly the same thing.

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Ya I got a habbit of reading the first post (Usually the question) then go straight to answering, THEN reading all the posts. I found yours once i posted and I said to my self "Hmmm, He'll understand :)"
 
Yeah that is an idea why don't you try "2D3 steadymove pro" for Premier or After effects. It's a great little plugin and works with zooms and pans. See if that works, hope it works. I hate those kind of problems. Best of luck
 
yia said:
I think his tutorials is for a stable shot.....mine is a panning shot
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Exactly why I asked what I did!! You don't want to stabilize it --- you want to smooth it... yes?

I use SHAKE for this. Not sure what the plugin above will do... but remember there's a difference that you need to clarify between stabilizing and smoothing.

Now -- what you CAN do is stabilize in a large comp and then keyframe the pan as the shot moves. Hard to explain... and I'm sure you'll have to stabilize different sets of points over time.

Doing it in a larger comp will keep all the video that would have gone beyond the boarders of the comp before.

To get rid of the up/down motion and black lines (depending on how bad they really are...) you'll need to turn on continuous raster or increase scale or slowly pan up and down too or (more likely) some variation of all three.

However - shake will do this all for you... or maybe the plugin too.

Good luck,

CaptM
 
Hey Cap, do you mean Shake the program or Shake is a plugin?


CaptainMench said:
Doing it in a larger comp will keep all the video that would have gone beyond the boarders of the comp before.

CaptM
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Will you explain this a little more please? I'm not quite sure what you mean by it.

And I'm still not sure what he is wanting to do. Take a panned shot where the panning itself comes from a tripod is a little jumpy or uneven and he wants to smooth that out, or is it something more like a hand held pan and he wants to smooth and/or stabilize?
 
I think Cap means blow up the shot so you don't lose the trackers? Although this wouldn't help a pan.
 
tmnt said:
I think Cap means blow up the shot so you don't lose the trackers? Although this wouldn't help a pan.
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No... what I mean is say your film is 720x480. When you stabilize the track it will end up bouncing all over the place... but BUT your it will be moving outisde the 720x480 'window' and you'll loose everything with no chance to get it back. Shake (yes, the app) keeps it all even outside the comp layer (don't mean to be a troll here - one feature I wish was in AE)

But there's a way to fix that. You Command-K your comp and change the size to 1800x1800 or whatever. NOW... where ever the video moves away from the stabilize data it will still be IN the comp and not lost for ever.

SO -

Precomp that baby into a new sequence and you can now manually pan the shot.

I know it's making little sense. Might be way too complicated to even consider if something else would work better!!

CaptM
 
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