Warp Stabilizer and Wiggle Lesson

For this lesson we were given the task of using two different types of motion tracking techniques to first make a video appear to have a handheld feel and in the second part of the lesson we had to smooth out a piece of footage with the use of the warp stabilizer.

The first piece of footage was one of a guy hitting a baseball and the effect that we want to achieve is to make it look like the guy is hitting the ball so hard the camera is shaking. After placing the footage into a new composition we have to establish the points in which the footage needs to shake and we did this using key frames. The next part is to add the shaking motion to the footage using the wiggle tool and by modifying the magnitude and frequency we get the shaking effect but there is a problem, the background is clearly visible and that needs to change but there is a fairly simple way to do this with the use of the motion tiles effect we are able to duplicate the original movie file and by using the mirror tile tool we have the final footage.

in the second part of the lesson we had to smooth out a piece of footage which was was slightly wobbly , With the use of warp stabiliser  tool. The warp stabiliser tool is very useful for giving a shot a tripod look however this can only be used when there is minor shaking there warp stabiliser will not be effective when there is a lot of shaking even hand tracking will not help when the shaking is  extreme.