CGTalk - Smoothing a pan

bendingiscool

06-26-2009, 08:35 PM

Hey guys, went out and filmed a simple pan of an object and am going to comp a CG statue on top of it, the only problem is the pan is a bit jerky in places.

What is the best way to smooth out a panning shot in fusion

Many thanks, Chris

Jayk2k

07-03-2009, 08:18 PM

I had hoped there was a simple link on VFXPedia.com to point you to, but I can't seem to locate it at the moment.

Ideally, just use a tracker on the background plate, and feed the cg statue into the foreground input, set the tracker operation to stabilize/match move and you should be good to go.

Alternately you can use the stabilize/match move function of the tracker, and set the matchmove settings to start & end, and adjust the intermediate points to smooth out the smaller bumps of the shot, yet retain the motion.

bendingiscool

07-03-2009, 08:20 PM

Thanks for the reply, I did indeed end up stabalising the shot and keyframing the transforms.

Cheers,
Chris

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