From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 12 Tracking and Keying

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Cleaning up the results of a stabilization

Cleaning up the results of a stabilization - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 12 Tracking and Keying

Start my 1-month free trial

Cleaning up the results of a stabilization

“

- [Instructor] Inevitably, once you stabilize a shot, you will now need to perform some cleanup. The reason is, After Effects is having to animate the position of your original footage layer to make the image contained inside that clip appear stable. As a result, edges of the original clip may start to creep across the composition boundaries, exposing the background. I've created a very bright pink background here so you can actually see it peaking out around the shot. If I just left my background black, it may not have been so obvious. That's why I use a really garish background color. If you want to set or change the background color yourself, it's underneath the Composition menu. In previous versions of After Effects, there was a separate menu item called background color. Now, it's actually inside Composition Settings. I'll cancel and turn my footage back on. If you want to continue to use this shot full frame, you will need to scale it up and reposition it so that the edges do…

Contents