Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Image Tracking for TV tubes
Well, things have shifted gears finally. Forgoing Shake for After Effects, this latest shot isn't much to look at, but means everything. There is multi-plane compositing with the foreground mirror effect laid over top of the base footage. A traveling matte (not easily seen here, but it puts the tubes in front of the green screen mirrors) and finally, automatic image tracking and stabilization - those green screen mirrors match the shot footage in scale and position all done by computer. This is really going to clean up some of the shaky dolly shots later on. And then I can't wait to run Magic Bullet across all of this to wipe out the digital artifacting in the low light (this footage doesn't have it yet).
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AE rocks: high quality output, vastly supported, and cross-platform.
On my machine Vegas SCREAMS! I find it even more responsive than Audition and that application is just for sound. Like yourself, I like to do compositing in AE; but I use Vegas for clip arrangement.
I'd probably run something even lighter than Vegas if it were faster but Vegas was the fastest and most stable application back when I was testing similar tools for arrangement. Also, back then Sony had just barely acquired the application. Creative Cow reviewed a newer version of it:
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/harvey_jim/vegas_7/index.html
still seems like a good solution for a Windows platform.
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