Apple Shake 4 Tutorials - Manual (Page 248)

248 Tutorial 9 Creating Clean Plates
You may already be familiar with the Stabilize node and wonder why we’re not using
that to stabilize the footage. These clips were all shot without the benefit of a tripod or
camera mount—that’s right, they’re handheld. The SmoothCam node can stabilize and
adjust for translation on all three axes (x, y, and z), and can also stabilize for zoom and
perspective changes. The Stabilize node adjusts for transformations on the x- and
y-axes only.
To open the stitch-2_start.shk script:
1 Click the Load button at the top of the Node View.
2 In the File Browser, navigate to the $HOME/nreal/Tutorial_Media/Tutorial_09/scripts
directory.
3 Select the stitch-2_start.shk script and click OK.
This node tree looks similar to the previous example.
If you stitch these images now, the AutoAlign node will incorporate all the camera
movement into the stitched background. If you don’t want movement in the clips, you
need to stabilize them first.