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Digital Compositing for Film and Video, 5th Edition
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Digital Compositing for Film and Video, 5th Edition

by Steve Wright
June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
554 pages
17h 23m
English
Routledge
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9  Tracking and Transforms

DOI: 10.4324/9781032418070-9

Transforms are used to change the position, shape, size, and orientation of images and can be animated over time, as in the case of motion tracking. An understanding of the effects of pivot points and filter choices will protect you from degraded or unexpected results. The discussion of pivot points leads to some helpful techniques for the sometimes onerous task of lining one image up onto another. And as long as we are pushing images around, a discussion of mesh warps and spline warps as well as morphs are in order.

Tracking is a key technique in visual effects ...

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