EchoroomMedia wrote:REALLY could use this feature! also have 100-200 clips that all need RE analyzing because stabilization messed it up, i KNOW these shots work with face refinement and spent hours dialing them all in, just needs to be re analyzed and im not looking forward to spending 3 hours clicking that button... also its kinda crazy that the only suggestion here is to "have an assistant do it". like...cmon. suggesting pay an assistant to click "analyze" when there should be a "re analyze all" button
It's not that simple. I agree that you do have to do stabilization FIRST before any window tracking (and that includes Face Refinement).
If you can't afford an assistant, sit there and track them all yourself. It just takes time. The tracking time would be the same -- the only difference is you have to hit the ANALYZE button yourself.
One tip/workaround: you can paste Face Alignment on multiple clips at one time, even though the tracking wil be wrong. So if the clips are similar, all the settings will be (more or less) correct. Then, you just bounce to the next shot, hit analyze, go to the next shot, hit analyze, and so on. Be warned that this still won't tell you when the Face Refinement
fails, and that's the real issue you have to watch out for.
I just did some Face Refinement today on a (fairly) A-list star, and I ran into one case where the only way the analysis would work was if I zoomed all the way into his face and tracked in reverse. Absolutely would not track in forward, and it wouldn't work without zooming in. How could that have been done automatically? The answer is.... you can't. It requires human intervention and judgement, plus constant vigilance to make sure it doesn't flicker from a bad track. (This was a case where I opted to use F.R. instead of using manual windows, all by hand.) If it's a commercial with 6 shots, doing it by hand is not a problem; in this case, I had 56 shots in a behind-the-scenes video, and basically every face needed some eye-related help. It worked out fine, but... it took some thought and effort.