After Effects Warp Stabiliser - Demo Footage

[KidBajan]

No need for a Glidecam now.

[lifewasters]

Looks as if a crane was used to get closer to the barbecue. Professional film-like motion. Add the two horizontal black bars [cinema], slightly alter the colors and add some appropriate music/audio and viewers will think this is an excerpt taken from a Hollywood film or a BBC documentary.

[FischFanger]

that replace a glidecam or somthing like that!!! more than great

[starfedrogue]

@AcceptNoBullshit Indeed!

[ekhaat]

Amazing



[starfedrogue]

@AcceptNoBullshit (1) Drag the effect over the clip, (2) Make cup of tea.

[VelcroBanana]

Very nice...

[dualranger]

woot!!

[tattooskin72]

hehehe, so you have been having a lot of fun I see :)

[CanadienAtheist]

Oh I have to get me one of those! it could do wonders for some of the hand held video stuff I like to do.

Plus it sounds like it could also make space ships faster!!!

[commanderkruge]

Wow, that's actually quite impressive...

[starfedrogue]

@commanderkruge And it's SOOOOO EASY! Literally drag it across from the effects panel, then go make a cup of tea.

[commanderkruge]

@starfedrogue I mean, okay, slowly one should get used to the fact that there is nothing you can't do with computers any more - but each time I think that someone comes up with a program that does something automatically like this that just blows me away. :D

Too bad this stuff is so expensive, I'd *so* love to simply toy around with tools like that. :)

But no need to complain, even the "average ppl" software I use can do impressive things already. ^^

[starfedrogue]

@commanderkruge Adobe CS 32 will just be a button labelled "Create Awesome".

[commanderkruge]

@starfedrogue Heheh... I toyed around with a similarly interesting audio toy today - ujam com (with a dot apparently ^^) - it lets you record / upload an audiotrack (like you singing a capella) and then creates "orchestration" for it, picking from a range of styles. Probably much "easier" to do than what adobe does, but still... :)

[KidBajan]

Now I see how some of these fancy shots on youtube are done without one of those stabilizing tripods.

[killroy42]

Will it cut more/less according to the bouncyness of the original footage?

[starfedrogue]

@killroy42 More or less... with default settings is basically looks ahead at all of the frames in the sequence, and figures out how to smooth the shots by zooming in and warping them with a re-frame, so you lose some of the edges. There is another mode which uses a variant of the "extend edges" effect to synthesis new edges so it doesn't need to zoom each frame in - I haven't tried that out yet but I'll try and do a comparison video.

[starfedrogue]

@starfedrogue *synthesise!

[killroy42]

@starfedrogue How does the zooming affect frame quality? And does the synthesise setting maintain pixel-to-pixel mapping without any blurring? Would love to see this applied to a low-res source with a sharply contrasted image, like a checker board pattern, so any scaling artefacts would be clearly visible. But then again, I'm a programmer, not a photographer, so probably nobody else cares ;)

[starfedrogue]

@killroy42 In the footage I used, even at full quality in After Effects it looks softer in the treated frames. I have not pixel-peeped it extensively so I can't really be quantitative. I like the chequerboard test idea but I am not sure what kind of suitable environment I'll be able to find that I can walk through!

[killroy42]

@killroy42 Perhaps a table-top printout of a tv text screen and a macro walk-around?