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Running Time: 20mins.
64. Stabilize Shaky Footage
April 12, 2008
• Learn advanced techniques for stabilizing footage in AE
• Composite realistic smoke behind vehicle with paticular
• Composite realistic smoke behind vehicle with paticular
Additional Tutorial Notes:
In this 2-part tutorial you will learn a great technique to stabilize shaky footage and we'll cover compositing smoke behind this moving vehicle with Particular. Thanks to Mark Christiansen for his great technique for this tutorial. Check out his book 'Adobe After Effects: Studio Techniques'.
In this 2-part tutorial you will learn a great technique to stabilize shaky footage and we'll cover compositing smoke behind this moving vehicle with Particular. Thanks to Mark Christiansen for his great technique for this tutorial. Check out his book 'Adobe After Effects: Studio Techniques'.


















looks promising...
I'll watch it right after I come home from work.
Great job once again Andrew.
I was wondering if you oguys have sound collections for movies or not? I heard that song in the Promo of Action Movie Essentials and I was impressed with the Music! If you make a collection that have Stock Music for movies that would be Aweasome and I would be the first to buy the collection.
great tut
Motion Tile is also covered in
Camera Shake with Wiggler #5
Not bad, just finished it. My Smoke doesn't come out to well but then again I can't imagine why smoke is poring out of the trunk of Squad car... Can't get it to render out properly though. Sure it's something on my end otherwise I'd upload it and share my experience.
Regards
Sandy
Enjoy NAB2008!
- Derrick
The serendipity is that I shot some footage 3 days ago that is crying out for this stabilising technique -- how did you know? ;p
Regards
Sandy
thank you.
Best Regards
Greetings from Germany!
thanks andrew
That's Fantastic .
Thanks Again .
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I turned to particular but I could not control the speed of the particle generation since the car played back at 90 fps and the smoke had to generate super slow.
With one day to brainstorm the effect, I left the car smokeless. It was still an awesome effect yet it could have been even more dynamic.
So in essence I am thanking you for such an awesome tutorial.
Thanks a million once again. I will experiment and add the car with smoke for my reel tape.
Peace out.
Oh btw the car was sliding sideways and then had to turn (all at 90 fps) and when that happened I did not have time to properly track the effect using particular and your null control tutorial about 30 lesson back. I thought of asking for you help but could not contact you on the matter. All is well and have a great day.
It´s all bestes tutorials !
anyways, thanks for the great tutorial as always SIR
keep up the good work
regards from Nigeria.
You are the best!
Thank you for your tutorial
WOW! You are the guru...Master Andrew...I love your stuff...man o man...
I am just wondering if you could do a Tute on letsay a sonic boom effect from a nuclear bomb being dropped with trapcode form...
MARS from Australia
You the best!
Great job as usual tho!
Brazilllllllll
thanks from spain
I can actually see myself using this technique.
Evyatar,
Israel.
Did you get a ticket?
Saludos desde Chile.
Thanks.
Thanks!
AE Basics and a few tutorials really did it for me.
Thank you. Support for the site is a few days away.
Oh!!!!Stay away from snakes.They bite.
I bet Sam was behind the wheel.Pity that Po on the bike.
Whenever I import a self contained QT file from Final Cut, I always have to work at a lower res because the HDV footage I'm working with always takes FOREVER to preview a render or sometimes to even jump around in the time line. Frustrating...
Sir Rocked That Tune(TM).
Thank you sir ..
thanks a lot.
Saleh from Saudi Arabia.
Regards.
This Tut. is so ... quickly
but very powerfull & useful effect.
and don't push it andrew
Thanks a lot......
Thanks for your help! Dave
PS -- How's the baby?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X3gOzI_ffY
Great tutorial by the way.
Thanks for your help! Dave
PS -- How's the baby?
thanks andrew
from italy
from korea
I did some tests with generated footage in FCP with a timecode generator and exported 720p24 timeline to a mov and a photo JPEG and they both work fine in AE CS3. I wonder if there is something strange in the demo footage? Also, when I brought in the 2 samples, they were 23.976 and not 23.98.
Has anyone else had this problem with the demo police car footage?
Thanks,
I think they already have a stock music collection
"Designer Sound FX", its really good
NICEEEeeee... (Again)
many thanks for this new and usefull tutorial.
there are lots of thing we can learn from you about ae!
so i wish your family and you a great week.
greetings from germany
HIStory
Thank You Andrew, Your the man
Thank You Andrew, Your the man
Tudo que vocês fizeram até agora é impressionante...
Parabéns a todos, o muito obrigado!
PROUDLY ANGOLAN
ONE !
all of your tutorials are very very useful and amazing
Thanks Andrew, like always, an awesome tutorial
great job guy!!
I love u guy and thanksssss
here in africa all of vfx man want to see from you every day.
keep it on.
how to get the mark christian's book?
thanks
Greetings from Germany
well maybe one "THANKS"
i will finish that snake for you, sir !
i will finish that snake for you, sir !
Awesome Tutorial!!!
(p.s. Mark if you do stop by check Andrews TWITCH plugin, its fantastic)
Thanks from Brazil!
wow, it seems like you are now using High definion footage (720P), may i know what kind of camera did you use to make this footage?
thanks for the tutorials!
this one is great
i wonder
how to create a rain effect using trapcode
i do mean a realistic rain effect
VIDEOCOILOT ROCKS----
Nice way to solve the mask problems, good idea to track before rotoscope to reduce work
Its great to see how pros work and resolve problems on the fly
can u show something of what u r working andrew?
Greetings from Mexico
I have a question please
I was trying to do something like this tutorial..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QuTIzXPfX-U
I know you could do it. I'm looking forward to see similer work in your sit
I had this problem with the tracking too. The clip's frame rate is 23.980 and not 23.976. If you don't have Premiere Pro installed on the same machine, AE can't understand the frame rate. If you have Final Cut Pro, you can import it and export it again at 23.076.
I like my AE and u´r support so much
Thanks and keep on going
realy helpfull.
Thanks from kurdistan
from Lithuania
it´s great. Just simply GREAT. I am computer designer working with 2D adobe products and just started some "DVD production". It´s just beginnig and your tutorials are simply great helpfull. Keep on going man. Thank you and people around you for that.
Where did u study this techniques, i mean what kind of source do u have. I know that no wizard tells his magic but some books or other stuff which can be usefull for this kind of job...Best Regards Silenus, SVK
evry day u give us new info in AE .
thanks Andrew
if u Pls Andrew I want t ask u about the best Hardwere system for AE
thanks agian..
Greetings from Germany
Very useful tutorial, keep being cool!!!
Diego from Argentina
Josh in Massachusetts
just want to say a billions of Thanks,
Greetings from South America
Well not me. What, am I crazy? These are great!
Piece!
Tricks are always welcome, hehehehe...
One of my dreams is to be professional like you in After Effects and some 3D programs. I thank God cos you help me out to reach it.
You're the best, Andrew. And take care of yourself. you'll be fine soon.
Congratulations from a Brazilian who lives in Ireland.
Good tutorial...
Keep that vibe...
I do not understand why the smooth doesn't work on the anchor point tracked but on the null with a cam...
Something good would be to do the same kind of thing, but with a panoramic movement, that's hard to stabilize.
thanks
I'd have to say that this tutorial along with the set extensions have been my favorite. Very helpful.
Thanks.
Did you take that footage from the the back of your car while trying to escape?
Great tutorial Andrew, keep up the good work! :)
Brian
Hubert
Great tutorial my personal(?) guru.
i wonder if you can make some tutorials
abot 3dmax character animation in the future
thank you again
Thanx for this tt..
well..i m really inspired by ur works and all the stuffs u hav..as i m working for visual company..i hav done lots of improvements and really gain my salay Up...visit my page to seee my work sir:
www.youtube.com/vfxnitin
I want to know cause it scared the hell outa me and I am very frightened of snakes and I think that it was a very weird comment and was shocked to hear it.
If it was a joke then why a snake why not a bear or a rhino?
Greetings from latvia
That was great use of the image itself to create a track matte. Very inventive. Well done.
Thanks again for all Andrew.
there are tutorials out for these but none of them make near close sense to how much sense yours do.!
I'm from brazil, I'd like you to make a tutorial to explain how to create fire and fereblasts on after effects.
thank you.
you're a great teacher to all of us...!!!
I faind it easier than to do it in the trypod.
but is theare a way to import 3D staff from maya Cinema 4D?
into after effects?
bye
michael...
Greetings from Serbia!!
God Bless U !
dats really goood stuff... hats off to u sir
I use a headset at the moment cause my speakers blew out on me but would that have anything to do with it?
I've been playing with music vids in After Effects but i can't get the volume to play on them..
Any help would be great thanks guys!
(Yes i'm new to the program)
www.shilodesign.com/ CN elijah something like that
thank you .......you da man
Hope little Kramer dont grow to be a thug like daddy_ who stones police stations and shoots the car on da chase just to get a tut done.....guess u did this tut in handcuffs...Amazing kramer!!!
Thank for your efforts! you deserve the best!
UKO SAWA! ( u are perfect!)
2º No sé si es el sitio pero no he visto , donde puedo poner mi problema.
HAsta ahora podia en el momento de renderizar hacerlo en cualquier formato, pero ahora en Windows MEdia no puedo, me lo hace pero salen solo rayas, alguien sabria decirme por que?.
Gracias.
And what screen capture one for recording my monitor?
please respond C:
can have it
IT IS (CREATIVE!)
Thanks and carry on and advise from me:
Don't forget your breakfast!
i had one question
how do we get movie like effect for example the video i shot with my friends looks realistic how do u get a movie like effect ,is it because those guys use hd cams to create a movie ?
Hola Andrew, es un gran tutorial. Es realmente impresionante tener disponible toda esa información para hacer nuestros propios proyectos como profesionales. Tu trabajo, amigo, nos hace possible hacer algunas diferencias. Muchas gracias.
its an amazing resource!
But how the .. could that snake bite your face?
They bite.
smaiel From Morocco
Am I missing the point of the extra layers? I'd just put the smooth command right in the tracked footage with the Anchor Point keyframes. Seems to do the job just as good.
Thanks
hehe
ou yeah.
I looking forward....
Thanks andrew
But there is a one thing i ask about it?
did you can to make a Motion track for the Mask,
I mean can you make the mask scaling by the motion tracker ,because i want to take face for some actor and add it to anoyher video and the video time about 30 min that meaning too much frames if i want to move it with another video each 5 fames i must change the scaling for the mask ,Please andrew help me to solve this probleam..... great regards to you