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

[Sean Kennedy]

That would be some AMAZING functionality to include, Hermann! Being able to automatically patch the gaps using other frames is something not many softwares can do, and would definitely be a huge addition to our vfx tools!

> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:41:07 +0200
> From: prg at ichthyostega.de
> To: bf-vfx at blender.org
> Subject: [Bf-vfx] Improving the 2D stabilization tool :: next steps
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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