[Bf-vfx] Improving the 2D stabilization tool :: next steps

[Ichthyostega]

On 23.08.2014 06:30, Sean Kennedy wrote:
> It would even be cool to see the animation path you are creating by
> counteranimating right there in the MCE viewer. It's been very helpful in
> other apps when doing this kind of thing on a real world production.

good point, noted for later.


> Another way the canvas would come in handy would be another technique
> using this kind of stabilization. A few times on shows, I've had to
> stabilize a big, panning camera move (like the footage Hermann used in his
> demo), and then create an extremely large plate of the entire scene. I
> would create a gigantic canvas, then lay out the frames in a long image,
> like a giant panoramic image.

probably the more tricky part will be how to organise and manage the memory for
this canvas; probably that's the reason why Blender doesn't have an
automatically extensible canvas.

But I am considering a quite related topic to be targeted as one of the next
steps, after (and if) something of my work gets accepted into mainline: That
would be to fill the black borders, in case they move into the visible area.
As you probably know, an approach commonly taken for that problem is to re-use
existing footage of neighbouring previous or following frames which happen to
cover that area. Obviously this is "almost" the same functionality as would
be required to build up a panorama. The problems to solve would be quite
similar, not trivial but certainly doable.

-- Hermann