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Suppose you have written out a stabilized shot, and adjusted the tracker positions to match the new shot. You can solve the shot, export it, and play around with
it in general. If you need to, you can pop the stabilization back off the trackers, adjust the stabilization, fix the trackers back up, and re-solve, all without going back to earlier scene files and thus losing later work. That’s the kind of flexibility we like.
There’s only one slight drawback: each time you save and close the file, then reopen it, you’re going to have to wait while the image prep system recomputes the stabilized image. That might be only a few seconds, or it might be quite a while for a long film shot.
It’s pretty stupid, when you consider that you’ve already written the complete stabilized shot to disk!
Approach 1: do a Shot/Change Shot Images to the saved stabilized shot, and reset the image prep system from the Prepset Manager. This will let you work quickly from the saved version, but you must be sure to save this scene file separately, in case you need to change the stabilization later for some reason. And of course, going back to that saved file would mean losing later work.
Approach 2: Create an image prep prepset (“stab”) for the full stabilizer settings.
Create another image prep prepset (“quick”), and reset it. Do the Shot/Change Shot Images. Now you’ve got it both ways: fast loading, and if you need to go back and change the stabilization, switch back to the first (“stab”) prepset, remove the stabilization from the trackers, change the shot imagery back to the original footage, then make your stabilization changes. You’ll then need to re-write the new stabilized footage, re-apply it to the trackers, etc.
Approach 1 is clearly simpler and should suffice for most simple situations. But if you need the flexibility, Approach 2 will give it to you.
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