VFX Essentials: How to Stabilize Footage using Nuke's 3D System

This is a tutorial on how to stabilize footage in 3D space using a camera tracker and a card inside of Nuke. This tutorial is designed to help place assets into a 3D world when compositing inside of Nuke. Please comment your questions, like and subscribe. Also please feel free to check out my website at www.gregoryharrington.weebly.com. Thanks!

[@jasonwhyttes1679]

That transition when you were waiting for the tracker totally caught me offguard and I had a good chuckle.

[@magusofthebargain]

Thank you so much for putting this together. Simple straightforward tutorials like this are the best!!

[@gonzalogomez91]

Thanks for this! Great tip

[@woosh_woosh]

I've stumbled upon your channel a while ago and just loved it immediately!Jokes aside, i really think you're doing great job with those tuts, plain explanations of in demand techniques (especially for aspiring artists). Keep it up and cheers from a fellow comper) It's just tracking for tutorial purposes and the tutorial itself is not about tracking, but imo it would've been worth mentioning that on a real shot one should avoid tracking reflections and shadow transitions regions. Anyway, great tut!

[@rendered_useless2093]

This was super helpful thanks. I'm still just struggling to wrap my head around my you need to plug the frame hold into the Scanline Renderer. If I understand correctly, the position of the camera is frozen on a reference frame with the most area showing that is to be stabilized, to avoid any black edges and cropping around the frame right? But obviously the projection camera is not frozen so that the footage still has regular playback

[@gregoryharrington2261]

Yes that's absolutely right. I've been using this method for many years now and it's in a lot of the shots I've worked on. I even created a gizmo with this technique so it's easier to understand and use at the studio i work at. I hope it helps you as this method has saved me hours of work. I'd like to make a much shorter version of this tutorial one day so it's easier for others to refer to it.

[@ekk7283]

great Tutorial! Thanks a lot!

[@onibuggii]

Hi, is it possible if you can share this nuke file? I'm lost on how to merge each projection together like the final comp.

[@bluishglacier5206]

LIFESAVER AFTER SPENDING EONS TRYING TO FIND HOW TO STABILIZE A 3D TRACKED ASSET BC MOCHA IMPORT DOESN'T WORK YOU SIR, HAVE DONE ME TRUE JUSTICE, I WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO FINISH THE PROJECT

[@gregoryharrington2261]

Thanks for the kind words! I'm happy it helped. This is something I wish I learned years before I made this tutorial and has helped me on countless projects. Spread the technique to others, I'm sure it will help them too!

[@bluishglacier5206]

You've earned a sub, not to be biast but for some reason I understand more from United States tutorials. And sure I will make sure to

[@bluishglacier5206]

I guess it's the accent, they might have the best mic but some explanations don't come through as naturally

[@ronydey2696]

Great tricks in 3D stuff point of view ....i mean i can only stabilize it over XY Plane axis that's 2D Pt track mode ...

[@Naruto_uzumaki7979]

Bhai yar har jaga par he tu krta kya he tu

[@Laprik1]

Very helpful thanks 👍

[@akamrezaee]

Could you Share the script?

[@marioCazares]

No way you have a channel! : D