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GoPro used with model Helicopter – now “wobble” effect
I was wondering if anyone out there might now how to get rid of this “wobbling” effect of my footage. It was mounted underneath the rotor on a mount (because, uh, where else is it gonna go). The footage suffered the wrath of “rotor wash” and now has a “wobble effect” throughout. I fed it through several stabilization filters and shake filters, but to no avail. For a more visual idea of what is going on, it looks kind of like a ripple effect on water – but with no origination spot – it’s just universally throughout the footage. I know GoPro is 50fps so I flirted with the idea of possibly interlacing the footage or changing the frame rate – but I’m not even sure this will do any good. If an of you gurus out there have a fix for this I would be very appreciative.
Thanks!
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6 Replies
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Rolling shutter. https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/rollingshutter/
Also I have read that the warp stabilising effect in After Effects 5.5 is also useful. As Dave says, nothing beats getting the mount right. I have heard from experienced Go Pro people that sometimes double sided tape is all you need. The person I am refering to does all the Go Pro rigs for Top Gear Australia and he swears by double sided tape to help reduce the wobbles from hard mounts.
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Oh I love Google search-
https://philipbloom.net/2010/10/31/imovie11/
Cheaper than the Foundry plugin but I can’t vouch for how good it is. It might also be in FCP X. If it is, beware of installing FCP X on your current system without first reading David Roth Weiss’s excellent article on a properly partitioned install.
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Thanks for all the responses – all good advice indeed. The problem is, I am a video contractor on the job and was hired by a nice gentleman from Australia to fix this problem. He was on a contracted job himself – out of town – and probably won’t be able to go back to the site – I’ve never touched a GoPro in my life. As far as those other links – I’m going to check them now… thank god for CreativeCow. I will be back to let you know how it goes.
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The foundry plugin is for Nuke or AE and there is a 15 day free trial.
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I think I can imagine what your footage looks like and I imagine you’re out of luck ;-(
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Fixing the skew on that buildings shoot shouldn´t be much difficult; the vertical is the reference.
Fixing the inframe wobbleling is a different story. No references.
rafael
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