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Adding Digital Camera Shake Professional Look?
Okay, I guess 2 questions. 1) does adding digital camera shake make your shots look more professional. I’m talking about static shots that you move it around in post to simulate as if it were a steady handheld shot.
2) What’s the easiest way to do it in Premiere? Is it just biting the bullet and keyframing it? Or is there some kind of effect that does it?
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I do not think it looks professional.
Movies or tv series with hand held shots are sometimes very annoying to watch.
A subtle wiggle will do.———————————————–
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The key to this (even when a shooter is actually shooting) is that a “wiggle” or a shake is typically not what you want. The language used in my circle is “float”. It’s a matter of the camera moving while staying focused on the subject. In other words, the variable tends to be that the shooter moves their body to keep the person (or whatever) in the foreground fairly stable, but the background will be moving slightly. It’s usually employed to add a bit of tension to a specific scene in cases where the rest of the project may be rock-steady.
Actually a less experienced shooter intentionally “shaking” the camera, or shaking the shot ends up usually being something that makes the entire composition shakes and our focal point in the shot “shakes” or moves about erratically, making the material hard to watch…for anyone.
There are camera shake plugins (Digieffects Damage has one), and usually a very subtle movement, as Ann suggests, or using it as a specific “event” that represents an impact in the scsne is what can be done at that point. Anything more active gets pretty dicey because of course, you can’t do a “float” in post where your background is sliding about behind your focal point to show some motion without jarring your viewer loose from where they’re looking…so all you can do in post is shake the entire frame.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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The nature of the project determines if the effect is appropriate. For action adventure type projects “Shaky Cam” can be very effective. For corporate communication pieces, not so much. 😀
Tom Daigon
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Try taking a shot that has the look you want and use AE to stabilize it. Cut the keyframes generated and paste them into the shot you want to ‘shake’. You’ll have to scale the shot up a bit to get rid of the movement around the edges.
Mark Landman
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As mentioned before. It really depends on the feel you want to give your video. I would do the Camera shake in After Effects with the Wiggler. It does a great job.
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