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This is hilarious
This is my first ever attempt a making a gif...

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Man this is sick. Nice. Need to learn to do a gif.
 
Wow, you're off & running bro~!!! How long have these taken you to track?

Do you like the Davinci Resolve program? I might give that a try if you like it.
I tracked all of them manually frame-by-frame, and each one probably took about 30 minutes to track.
The one with the car took the longest to complete because I had to work out how to mask off the door frame (very simple in hindsight), and work out how to make the doberman look like it's behind the the glass window. Plus the camera at the doberman section was a but unstable, so the tracking was a bit harder to make acceptable.

I really like Davinci Resolve - it's quite easy to use, but extremely advanced. It has a really good workflow, with seperate (but integrated) sections for the following:
  • source media organization
  • pre-trimming clips
  • editing video sequences
  • video compositing (eg After Effects)
  • advanced color grading
  • advanced audio
  • exporting
I'm actually very surprised how good it is - I wasn't expecting it to be that good. It does take a lot of RAM and processing power though, so a mid or low end computer would struggle with it - I have 16GB RAM.
 
I tracked all of them manually frame-by-frame, and each one probably took about 30 minutes to track.
The one with the car took the longest to complete because I had to work out how to mask off the door frame (very simple in hindsight), and work out how to make the doberman look like it's behind the the glass window. Plus the camera at the doberman section was a but unstable, so the tracking was a bit harder to make acceptable.

I really like Davinci Resolve - it's quite easy to use, but extremely advanced. It has a really good workflow, with seperate (but integrated) sections for the following:
  • source media organization
  • pre-trimming clips
  • editing video sequences
  • video compositing (eg After Effects)
  • advanced color grading
  • advanced audio
  • exporting
I'm actually very surprised how good it is - I wasn't expecting it to be that good. It does take a lot of RAM and processing power though, so a mid or low end computer would struggle with it - I have 16GB RAM.

Sounds like a pretty sweet program. Regarding you nudging your heads on a gif frame by frame... Doez it have an "automatic tracker" in it and you just haven't fiddled with it yet... or doez it not have that capability?
 
Sounds like a pretty sweet program. Regarding you nudging your heads on a gif frame by frame... Doez it have an "automatic tracker" in it and you just haven't fiddled with it yet... or doez it not have that capability?
Yep, Davinci resolve has a few different types of automatic trackers - it does pan, tilt, zoom, rotate and 3d.
  • It can track the camera movements in footage, and also track the movement of an object in the footage.
  • It has a masking tracker which will track a mask onto an object so you can replace the face, or change the color properties of just the face etc.
  • You connect the tracking data to a 'transform' node, which you can then connect to anything you want.

I wanted to get used to using the keyframe animation manually before using the automatic tracking, but I will start to use the automatic tracking.
 
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