Imagineer Unlink Example

Imagineer Systems recently published a really insightful tutorial on unlinked tracking techniques for Mocha. This approach is especially helpful with shots that have a significant amount of camera panning where offset tracking would typically be employed.

So, after watching the tutorial, I decided to see how far I could push the technique. And even though I tested it on some worst high8 footage I could find, (Yes, that’s me skiing on an old family vacation) I got a very acceptable result.

In certain applications, I think this technique could be an intelligent means of converting old analog footage to HD or pushing HD to 4K; especially if your source mainly pans and is higher quality than your family shooting handheld in full auto mode.