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Tutorial 9

Creating Clean Plates

To stitch images using the AutoAlign node:

1

From a new Shake script, insert an Image–FileIn node.

2

In the File Browser, navigate to the $HOME/nreal/Tutorial_Media/Tutorial_09/images/
stitching
directory.

You’ll see one image sequence, photo[email protected]. By default, Shake assumes that
sequentially numbered frames are part of an image sequence, and displays a single file
name in the File Browser. These are the still images you want to read in, but you don’t
want to read them as an image sequence.

3

Deselect the Sequence Listing button to view the directory contents as individual files.

4

Select photo1369.JPG, photo1370.JPG, and photo1371.JPG, then click OK.

5

Insert a Transform–AutoAlign node, then connect the photo images to it, like this: