Quick Start
This section gives a very brief outline of how to use the plug-in.
Smoothing Out Camera Motion
To keep the overall camera motion but to smooth out sharp bumps and kicks, do the following:
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Find a shot that has some camera shake in it and select Image > Read to load it. |
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Select FurnaceCore > F_Steadiness to apply F_Steadiness, and view its output. |
You will see the following banner in the overlay:
No valid key framed analysis found, please press Analyse
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In the Advanced F_Steadiness controls, make sure Mode has been set to Smooth. |
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Click on the Analyse button. |
F_Steadiness will now start analyzing each frame in the shot, figuring out the smoothing corner pin and writing it as key frames to the corner pin parameters, Bottom Left, Bottom Right, Top Left, and Top Right.
After a brief pause (while F_Steadiness calculates the transforms in the frame range), F_Steadiness will update the timeline and you will see the steadied image render in the viewer.
If at any point you interrupt the analysis, the pins it has calculated until that point will be retained.
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Play or scrub through the stabilized frames. |
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If you want to make the result smoother, increase the Smoothing parameter in the Advanced parameter group and the corner pin will be recalculated immediately to give a smoother shot. You don’t need to re-analyze the sequence if you do this; as F_Steadiness has kept the raw inter-frame transforms cached away, all it needs to do is re-write the keys for the average smoothing pin. |
Locking To A Frame
To completely remove camera motion from a sequence, do the following:
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Find a shot that has camera shake but where all frames share scene information and select Image > Read to load it. |
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Select FurnaceCore > F_Steadiness to apply F_Steadiness, and view its output. |
You will see the following banner in the overlay:
No valid key framed analysis found, please press Analyse.
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In the Advanced F_Steadiness controls, set Mode to Incremental Lock. |
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Choose a frame somewhere in the middle of the sequence that you want to lock to, and set the Lock Frame parameter to that frame. |
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Scrub back and forth through the shot and look for a region of the shot that is shared by all frames and doesn’t change much (for example, avoid a region with people walking in front of it). |
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Whilst looking at the lock frame, position the on-screen widget for the Analysis Region over that region. |
The effect will start to analyze, working first forward from the lock frame, then backwards from it, until all frames to be analyzed are done.
The timeline will immediately update to give you feedback in the viewer.