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  • Why is my panning footage so jittery.

    Posted by Matthew Kuhn on June 11, 2019 at 8:11 pm

    Hello. I shot this footage at 29.9 FPS with a shutter speed of 60. I used the Panasonic GH5s. For some reason there is a lot of jitter in this video. It is hard to make out the fruits for some reason . Any suggestions on what it could be? I also shot this at 60FPS with a shutter of 125. Same issue.
    https://vimeo.com/341650860

    Geoff Addis replied 6 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Hugh Hill

    January 22, 2020 at 6:12 pm

    What lenses did you use? (Did they have image stabilisation turned on?)
    Did you use any kind of stabilisation software/hardware?

    for shots like that, you should plan them, test them out first and see what method works the best personally I would have slowed it down and then applied some stabilisation but doing my best to keep it steady when shot maybe even using a good slider.

    Hope you work it out, but it doesn’t look that bad and could still be fixed if you slowed it down and stabilised it a bit (as long as you haven’t already used it.)

    Best

    Hugh

    “There are those who may,
    And those who will,
    Or so they say.
    Lastly there are those special few,
    Who say nothing –
    But in their actions DO! (HH)

  • Eric Santiago

    January 30, 2020 at 5:19 pm

    Whats the footage format?
    It could be a Long GOP issue.

  • Geoff Addis

    January 31, 2020 at 9:00 pm

    Overly fast panning causes jitter, keep panning speed to allow around 8 second for an item on one side of scene to reach the other side is a good rule of thumb.

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