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Warp Stabilizer advice needed please
Anti-tripod shake offset solution via Premiere Pro’s Warp stabilization?
Last night to my dismay, I discovered that most of the footage shot on 2 of my cams earlier that day was variable between being:
a) Unstable- almost still, some vibrations – minor “tremors”
b) Still as intended.
c) Somewhat to considerably wobbly ( i.e. up and down motion as a bonus)
Each clip is 28.5 minutes or in excess of 50,00 frames. Unfortunately, I do not have CUDA acceleration.
Pro estimated the time to analyze each clip “in the background” at approx 515 minutes!!
You have to be kidding me, that’s running the pc all night while I sleep for 3 consecutive nights.So now I definitely need sage advice on how to resolve this issue to the extent possible.
1) What Warp Stabilizer parameters (with exact settings) would offer me the best hope of obtaining usable footage?
2) Is there any way to speed up the file analyzation process short of buying a system with CUDA specs?
Why is it taking so long, it’s worse then rendering. Present status is unemployed.
The purported ability/claim to transform shaky footage to being fairly smooth was one of the key reasons why I made this major upgrade in the past couple weeks.
How effective is this efx in Prem Pro?
What should I be doing to move forward?
Any suggestions as to how to rectify the problem would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Bruce
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7 Replies
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Answered in your other post.
Tom Daigon
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[Bruce Pelley] “What should I be doing to move forward?”
Do you absolutely need to stabilize all footage? If possible edit first and then stabilize what you need.
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Terry,
I had so much shaky footage that even after cutting out the worse my timeline looked like swiss cheese.
I didn’t mention the 3rd cam which was better but still had substantial issues in the stability regard.
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Tom,
Please, where would that be found?
My only other recent inquiry was posted on Aug 24th to which noone responded yet.
Other than that it’s been months since I posted here.
Thanks
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I use Core Melt’s Lock and Load X. It is faster and seems to do a better job. It will however take time. I would edit as far as you can and then go back and stabilize.
Ideas:
Try editing and then stabilizing each night as far as you have gone.
Choose the section(s) you know you want, put in separate timeline, stabilize and output to a new file. The use them in your timeline. Leave handles on each end.Couple of problem I have with Lock and Load is using dissolves or other transitions. That is when I have to output to a new file as above and bring it back in with the handles. Also I regularly get smart phone footage of a disaster. Since it is not the same format/codec as we use, I have to stabilize it in its own timeline, output it and bring it back in stabilized. Then works fine.
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It looks very interesting, however I am PC based.
All of my Macs are ancient!
Thanks for the suggestion.
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If your footage is so shaken up you can’t even do a rough cut I’m not even sure if the warp stabilizer will help at all.
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