Adding handheld shake?

Hi,
I have some static footage that I'd like to add a slight handheld movement or shake to. I can't seem to come across any effect or method to effectively do this. Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks.

Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 8, 2009 12:16 PM

17 replies

kristjan

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Sep 9, 2009 2:11 AM in response to scotty1time

I have used Nick Holmes original suggestion before on projects and it works really well. I had a sequence that was all hand held with one shot that needed some animation in it. We shot that with fixed camera to help the animator then analyzed one of our previous hand-held shots in Motion and transferred the tracking data. Seamless matching. We filmed the shot slightly wider so we could scale it for the effect.

The advantage of this method is you get a really good 'organic' handheld feel.Artificially recreating that chaotic movement is time consuming and hard to get just right!

Sep 17, 2009 7:29 PM in response to Nick Holmes

"Transfer the data you aquire to the clip that you want to shake around."

So... how do you do that?

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