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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:46:39 -0600
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Subject: Re: [AE] Motion tracking woes
From: Brian Behm <flabbyironman@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Sean Kennedy <mack_dadd2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Something I do alot for motion blurred areas is handtracking and track
> averaging. Hand tracking just means positioning the tracker by hand (often
> on every frame), and averaging means doing that 4 times, then averaging the
> 4 slightly different results together to get a really good, solid track. If
> you have a bunch of shots to track, its probably not practical to handtrack
> them all. But sometimes, a frame is just far too motion blurred to do it any
> other way.

Yeah, sometimes hand tracking is all you can do. I've been using
Command-Left and Command Right and just the arrow keys themselves
lately to do the manual tracking without having to lift my fingers off
the keyboard. Being able to quickly flip back and forth between frames
means I can pretty quickly see whether a point is locked without
having to do averaging. I also have a habit of flipping forward a few
frames to see where the motion of an object shifts. Let's me get away
with only setting track points every few frames sometimes.

Brian


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