Adywan I really applaud the painstaking effort to merge multiple sources into probably what will be the best looking 1080p ANH footage in existence. Too bad it has to be frame by frame and can’t be motion tracked??!! Could you do the initial crop and aligning of a clip and then raise the gamma (temporarily) to give the motion tracker something to hold onto?
It was motion tracked. Even altering the image to give better definition, as soon as the TIE swoops from right to left, the motion blur knocks out the tracking for where the lights should be. so , for the many frames where the tracking was knocked out, you have to go in manually and adjust the position frame by frame. For the most part it seemed to work when i was trying it originally, but the swooping section just never looked right as you couldn’t really see where the light should be. But, since i last posts, i decided to go back and give it another go and it seems to have worked now. Sometimes it’s just best to leave a shot that isn’t working, no matter how hard you try, and come back to it at a later date. 😃 (gif may take a while to load depending on internet speed)
