Stabilizing tips
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When doing stabilization in PatchMaker, you can repeatedly switch the task from stabilizing to motion tracking and back. The cause of poor tracking quality is, sometimes, easier to understand in the motion tracking mode where it is the mask that drifts and twitches rather than the underlay. Don't forget to switch to the right task when you are done with tracking.
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If you deal with a very long footage, and the image nearly disappears during stabilizing, move the fixing frame closer to the segments you work with at the moment. Recall that the fixing frame is not transformed during stabilizing and remains completely visible. You can set the correct fixing frame position just before rendering.
See also :
- If you have to remove the jitter of an object having a particular location in the scene, consider using a mask fixed relative to the underlay (the Original Mask in All Frames is on). This ensures that even if, at some point, the mask drifts off the track for whatever reason, it will have a chance to recover in the future. One such reasons may be a short -term appearance of an obscuring object in the foreground. To tackle such events, we suggest that several short segments be created in the corresponding footage interval with parameters that allow more abrupt motion to be tracked at the expense of performance. In event of occlusion, the masks of such short segments should cover parts of the object that remain visible.
