Stabilizing a Travelling

[vector]

Hi:

I use After Effects. I must stabilize a travelling where I haven´t got any common element in the first frame and last frame. It means I can´t apply any tracker all the footage. I get lost and I don´t know how could I start.

Can you help me? Thanks.

VÃ*ctor

[TobiasLind]

For starters:
You could start track on a good point and do a option-drag on the feature/search region to reposition it on another good point. You'll see that the attach point stays in place on the first trackpoint even off-screen.

/ tobias

[vector]

Thanks, Tobias. I will try

Vector

[aibrahim]

One general answer is to break the shot up into several shorter sequences and stabilize each of them separately.

This will work generally for any techniques involving motion. (i.e. motion tracking, image stabilization, travelling mattes, automated roto etc etc.)

The solution already given is an AE specific version of this.

I recently used this technique to motion track an object that left the frame and returned. Rather than try and do it in one track, I just cut the scene during the time the object was not present and set up a new track for when it returned. The final appearance is a continuous track

[tush_u]

Have you tried furnace pulgin on the shot

[Irish_Laddy]

what are you using to track it?

why don't you play around with pfhoe from the pixelfarm and see what you think....it's a free trial and never times out

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