How expressions can get you out of a frustrating situation.
I had to comp two MoCo passes of a product to enhance some deco. Unfortunately both passes had a decent amount of jitter in it which was not in sync. A bit of a mess. Tried a few things, but nothing quite stuck well enough.
The final solution was to create two separate Axis tracks, one for pass 1 and one for pass 2, both tracking a common reference point. Using that to create an offset track.
Sidebar: I absolutely love that in Flame you can assign different media to the Axis node, so you can pick what media is used for the track separate from what that axis drives - need a pre-treatment for a difficult track? Create another input in action, pipe the standard input through a color corrector and then assign that new input as the Axis media while leaving the the rest of the schematic on the original.
Back to the MoCo situation. I then created a third Axis object that was driven by expressions to offset the jitter.
position.x = action.bg_track.position.x - action.fg_track.position.x (same for y)
That removed the jitter and the baked animation from the MoCo rig now matched between the two passes.
May this help someone else out of a frustrating corner.
2024.1
Today I learned:
If you have a sequence thats HD and just 1 clip in it at a different res then the resize can be removed and the timeline will change to the clip res.
We have looked into the issue and this is a side-effect of an improvement we attempted last year when we worked on the workflow with Multi-Channel clips in Batch. By default, we are automatically setting the width of a node so the complete name of a channel/output is visible. We will tweak it so you do not end up with very wide nodes for nothing when your zoom level is low.
The bad habits of writing novels in filenames. longing foe the old Linux and MS-DOS days where it was basic characters only, not even spaces or hyphens. Life was easier.
I didn’t know this. If it ignores the fact that the folder already exists, it could save a lot of mediahub navigation. I’ll test it when I have a chance.
