For removing shake the built in warp stabilizer is nice because you can scale and not completely remove shake. Lock and Load is a great plug in if you don't have 5.5 or 6 with warp stabilizer.

I have to create camera shake all the time. I have a crime series that they always want to rock the camera more. I like Sapphire S_Shake. I've built a few presets for a little shake, more shake, lots of shake. There are probably other plug ins for doing this but this is my go to filter for such a thing. Lots of nice randomizing controls for x,y, rotation, motion blur, etc.

Jack Tunnicliffe

Java Post Production

On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:25 PM, jarret langmeire <langmeire@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I've been attempting to solve this problem over a couple of projects now and have always had to resort to a temporary patch. I've finally caved and am going to see if the AE List can help.

I've filmed some tracking markers which I've tracked in AE and generated keyframes to apply to my camera in order to simulate a realistic camera shake. That's all fine and works but what I'd like to do is to be able to scale these values, probably via an expression control effect on a null or something like that - the reason I want to be able to scale is to a/. tone down or up the overall effect and b/. scale the effect over time so that shake increases over time for example. 

The obvious (to me anyhow) approach would be to use an expression that divides the position value by 2 (for example) in order to reduce the amount of shake. That certainly halves the overall range of the position but it also shifts the camera's position to a new location as opposed to leaving the camera at the specified location but to wiggle it within the range specified by the tracked motion.

Using parenting works but only if I don't scale the effect. I get the sense that Dan Ebberts' article here is related but unfortunately I've not been able to make the leap.

Thanks for any kind of help on this.

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Jarret