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Using Warp Stabilizer for tracking

Using Warp Stabilizer for tracking - After Effects Tutorial

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Using Warp Stabilizer for tracking

- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how you can use the warp stabilizer effect for tracking. Now if you never worked with this effect, go ahead and watch the previous movie. This is one of the easiest tools in the application. It was designed to remove jitter caused by camera movement, making it possible to transform shaky handheld footage into steady and smooth shot. However, you can also use it to stabilize a piece of footage and then reintroduce the camera movement back into the shot you want to track. So to illustrate it, I'm going to use the fourth clip in our trailer. And this is how it looks, a very shaky clip. And on top of it I would like to add this poster, but right now if I play both of them together we can see that the animated poster doesn't really match the movement of this clip. All right, so let's switch it off for a moment, and select layer number two, the billboard.mov. And to apply the effect, I'll use the tracker panel and click on warp stabilizer. And the…

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