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PatchMaker
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Version
1.0
PatchMaker is a 2D motion tracking program designed
for intraframe video editing and compositing. It can
determine the motion of a selected object in the
scene to a subpixel precision under a specified
parametric motion model.
The computed motion can be used to solve the
following tasks:
1) Placing a patch on a moving object. The patch
stays glued to the object because its motion was so
accurately determined.
2) Background stabilizing (eliminating unwanted
motion in the scene caused, for example, by camera
jerks)
PatchMaker has built-in means of integration with
Adobe® After Effects® (AE) that allow data exchang
between the applications with a single button click.
The AE plug-in module coming with the PatchMaker
takes care of importing/exporting footage between
current projects as well as applying computed
transformations to the active layer.
When working with the PatchMaker, the user has to
procced through the following steps:
1) Load both footage (to serve as the underlay) and
the overlay: from files of common formats (BMP, JPEG,
TIFF, TARGA, GIF, and PNG), or by importing active
layer footage from an AE composition;
2) By using a handy brush tool in the built-in mask
editor, select an object to be tracked;
3) Launch the tracking process (hold on, it is going
to be fast!);
4) When finished: perform high-quality rendering of:
the transformed overlay with an alpha channel, or the
underlay with the overlay applied, or the stabilized
underlay to files of the above formats or to an AVI
sequence, or export the computed transformations to
AE and apply them to the active layer.
PatchMaker has a comfortable user interface that
enables complete visual control over the tracking
process. For instance, you can visually organize the
tracking in stages, or preview current results
immediately during computation, or change the patch
on the fly.
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