In today's lesson, Piers and I used Aftereffects to stabilise a footage and got rid of the hand held effect.
The hardest bit was finding two tracking points of high contrast. The footage is steady now and we are able to fit it in our music video.
Here is a tutorial we found online:
Here's another tutorial I found on VIDEO COPILOT
http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/tutorials/05.Motiontracking/
In class this week, you showed me further footage which was hand held. The colours are absolutely gorgeous with the outdoor lighting, bright location, green grass, blue sky and vibrant costumes/ props (and everyone gave you very enthusiastic feedback on this, but I don't think that handheld works well at such length: it looks amateur and unintentional, not 'video diary' as you hoped for. I would always use a tripod by preference. What do you plan to do about this?
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