I not sure how many are using Studio 2023 but I wondered if anybody had any joy motion tracking a property boundary.I have attached an example and would ike to fly my drone over a property and mark the border but hide the surrounding properties and create a effect similar to the photo but in real time(video)
Hi
The issue with using Motion tracking - Attach to picture position in the video in Movie Studio speak is the changing shape of the boundary if the drone is not static.
There are methods, mostly time consuming, for achieving what you require depending on the surrounding areas of the property boundary eg:
HTH
John EB
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The scenario I wanted to create is similar to the video clip. Defined border and external to the border darkened. Probably not possible as this was done in final cut pro. https://vimeo.com/181250827
@derek-brown Hi, you could put your clip on Google Drive & share the link on here, I'm sure people with have a go with it & let you know,
I tried one of these boundary type overlays, the hardest bit is getting a good track as John says, as the camera moves the lights, pixels & perspective changes.
Hi,
There may be some fantastic artificial intelligence program out there that can somehow identify the land boundary all by itself, create a mask that moves with the changing video and changes shape at the same time, all by itself, but I have never heard of one. You can create a mask based on an image, but the mask would have to change shape as the camera moves. How would it do that without human intervention?
You could use point 2 of what John EB indicated, with Xara Photo & Graphics Designer or Xara Designer Pro X along with MS to do this. You would have to create the mask (shape) and adjust it as the video advances, aka, rotoscoping. Since the motion is slow and smooth, it would not be a difficult task as the mask would tween. Watch the video in the tutorial.
Looking at your example, that looks to me how it was done - rotoscoping. I can see some flaws in the adjustments of the mask in the example.
John CB
@derek-brown @browj2 @johnebaker Hi, spent a lot longer on this then i care to admit, tried a few options using Mocha, it didn't track too well but this type of tracking isn't something i know much about, so i used it as a learning experience,
What i learnt was manual tracking worked best, (for me anyway), In Mocha that's a combination of manual & auto, but it is basically creating a keyframe & the spline transitions to that point,, there were a few keyframes, on a simple straight flight like this i suspect Xara Pro could do just as well.
PS, I got Adobe AE for playing with my Boris toys, it works great but 7/8's of the time spent on this was working out wtf buttons to press in AE 🥴🤯😣😖🙃🤣
I tried the Mocha project in Vegas that I'm a lot more used to & in Mocha created the final mask etc. in 20mins-ish but export estimated 1hr+ , cancelled that, closed Vegas & opened the Mocha project in AE 😒
AE same project exported in just a bit longer than the length of the clip, 30secs-ish , maybe not even that long because it uses the prerenders already created in the programs preview/timeline, even they don't take long to create. 👍😁