Can any Motion plug-in (or FCP plug-in) do motion tracking?
I've got a project I'm working on that involves shooting model spaceships in front of a greenscreen, then compositing into a shot. I'd LIKE to animate the engine glow without having to keyframe every frame, and I'm trying to avoid buying Adobe After Effects.
Is there a Motion or Final Cut Pro plug-in that can do motion tracking, or should I bite the bullet and just get After Effects?
Mac G5 1.8 Mac OS X (10.3.9) FCP 5, Motion 2
Well, you could try iStabilize: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/istabilize.html
I also believe that Boris has an image stabilizer, but I don't know that either Boris or iStabilize have the ability to generate the tracking points...
I have used image stabilization to comp shots before - I stabilized a cropped down version of the shot, comp'd my bit into it, then stabilized the corner of the crop (which was jumping around because the image within it was stable), which put the movement back in the shot, then layed that over an original copy of the clip. A lot of monkey motion, to be sure.
I believe iStabilize has a free trial download...
Patrick
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