Nicolas,
The camera was really moving around on this video, huh?!  :) But, this
was a test of the motion stabilizer more than a use case.  It is very
cool once you get used to it.  Thanks for clearing up some of my
confusion.

scott

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 08:57 +0200, Nicolas wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:07:51PM -0400, Scott C. Frase wrote:
> > Hey Nicolas,
> > Thanks for the tips.  I was able to get a better result from the video I
> > made a while back.  I realized I did not use the "Previous Frame Same
> > Block" option originally.  This made a huge difference.  As I didn't
> > have much time to fuss with it, I lowered the translation search steps
> > to 128 as you suggest.
> > 
> > Here are my results with comparison of before, after and zoom.  The
> > video is very compressed, but you can see that the zoom doesn't degrade
> > too badly, as my source is HDV, which is something you'd be interested
> > in seeing:
> > http://content.serveftp.net/video/motionexercise.m2v
> > 7MB
> > 
> > scott
> 
> Scott,
> 
> There's no more lost motion tracking due to shade. However, your footage
> is so jerky that you had to zoom in a lot to discard the black borders.
> And now, all the "context" of the video is lost: you don't know where
> the video was taken. :-/
> 
> So, technically, the motion tracker is, IMO, well set. But with such a
> footage, one could hesitate to use the motion effect. I encountered the
> same problem sometimes with my video. At some places, I had to zoom it
> at a factor of 1.8, and I am using DV material... :-/ I really hesitated
> between using the motion tracker, or cutting the scene. :-/
> 
> I'll continue to do some tests with that effect. I really would like to
> be able to render to a higher resolution format, in order to see 100% of
> the image, even when there's a lot of motion compensation. That way, I
> could decide myself of the "stabilization effectiveness":
> - zoom in a lot to discard the jerkiness, but the image is not sharp
> - don't zoom it that much, and move the projector. The image is jerky,
>   but less than without any motion tracking. And I would not see those
>   large black borders.
> 
> Anyway, who now know how to use that motion effect. I think I'll often
> use it from now.
> 
> Nicolas.
> 
> 
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