Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv — Message #64127
From: David Baud <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] nVidias Slo mo demo
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:31:14 -0600
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
My understanding is that in order to get good result with any of the optical flow solutions, the system needs to be able to define the contour of your moving ā€œobjectsā€ (i.e a person, a ball, a car, etc…) in your frame. Better the system is capable of recognizing these objects, better results you will get. Twixtor Pro version will let you ā€œhelpā€ the system to define these contour by providing a mask for your object. As we know it can be time consuming to do rotoscoping. Where I think these systems can improve is in the automatic recognition of the moving objects in your frame, i.e recognizing "the person walking" and "the picket fence" as two different objects. I am not familiar with the proposed technology by nVidia, but maybe they improved the analysis of a video and the system is capable of calculating automatically the displacement of all objects in a frame separately?

Maybe Peter with RE:Vision will chime in this discussion and correct me if I am wrong šŸ˜‰ā€¦ and maybe gives us a better understanding of the optical flow technology in general… without revealing his secret sauce for Twixtor!

David Baud
Colorist & Finishing Editor
david at kosmos-productions.com

On Jun 20, 2018, at 11:59 , Jim Curtis <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Optical Flow and Twixtor have limitations.  Try a slo-mo of a person walking next to a picket fence, and see how wacky the pickets become with any method besides frame-blending.  There have been occasions where I’ve stitched together the different methods with masking and editing, as there seems not to be a Silver Bullet so far.  If this is it, I’m interested!  Thanks for the head’s up.

 
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