Tiliam research has taken the technology from their standalone app called MotionBend and released plugin for Final Cut Pro X and Motion. . Our approach to stabilization is that while shake is distracting and must be dealt with, the editor is trying to obtain certain visual look from the video. For large scale camerawork edits in post you would need 3D of the scene to avoid parallax errors. MotionBend is application for Mac, and now plugin for Final Cut Pro X and Motion. The version of MotionBend has line graph based motion editing that allows the user to see at glance where the shaky motion is and to choose correction parameters for different sections of the clip. We think this style of interface goes some way to being solution for the second challenge there are lot of ways we can extend it and we have to be careful to keep it easy to use.. For the plugin we had to modify number of our methods to work in different sequence and that led to some changes order to work efficiently.. Compared to the stabilizer, MotionBend has better quality and offers more flexible options for both motion processing and rendering... The plugin does not include the motion editing interface except you can use the import project feature to do motion editing in the version and then transfer it to the plugin. This means that you can also take advantage of other stand-alone features such as the processor to analyze multiple clips and the region tools to advise the motion analysis of foreground objects...
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