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Warp Stabilizer basics

Warp Stabilizer basics - After Effects Tutorial

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Warp Stabilizer basics

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- [Narrator] I'm going to start out by demonstrating the brand new Warp Stabilizer, which was added in After Effects CS5.5. For many shots, this is as close as it comes to just applying an effect and you're done. However, there are ways of tweaking it if you want to improve it's performance, and, conversely, there's some shots it doesn't work so well on. If you have access to the exercise files, open up the comp WS-Warp Stabilizer*starter. In it, we have a shot of an elephant walking across the plain. I'm going to cue up a ram preview of this shot, and you'll see that the camera has a fair amount of bounce to it. There's also a bit of a jerk at the start and stop of the camera movement. You'll notice how it bounces up and down here at the end. It stops and bounces. Let's say we want to smooth out this camera movement, as if it was on a nice heavy tripod with a fluid head. I'm going to stop my footage, open up window tracker, and in After Effects Theas 5.5, click stabilize motion. In…

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