How to fix shaky footage with Sony Vegas Studio 10?

[John Rofrano]

[owen gibbins] “I did some searches but I think they all related to the full version of Sony Vegas, not the cheaper version.”

Actually, Vegas Movie Studio HD 10 was the first to have the built-in stabilization and then Vegas Pro 10 got it. So try Movie Studio HD 10.

~jr

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[Matt Crowley]

Yup, Movie Studio 10 has a built-in deshaker/stabilizer that can help smooth out shaky footage. It cannot work miracles though. I have used it on handheld footage to good effect, but if you try to iron out too much movement, you will get significant cropping of your footage because of the way the stabilization works. Vegas does not “fill in the gaps” around the footage where frames need to be shifted a lot to correct for shake. You need a more professional deshaker for that, or try the powerful but not-so-easy-to-use Deshaker plugin for the VirtualDub video editor.

[Steve Rhoden]

Well Matt, Thats were Mercalli 2 for Vegas would come in.

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[Matt Crowley]

I believe the Vegas Movie Studio stabilizer is based on a cut-down Mercalli (could be mistaken). The full Mercalli stabilizer is not supported in Movie Studio, which is what I think the topic starter was talking about.

The NewBlue stabilizer works with Movie Studio. I seem to remember playing with the trial a while ago and found it worked well, and it can fill in the blank edges that result from shifting the shaky frames back into place. The Movie Studio built-in stabilizer hides the edges by simply zooming in a bit to crop them out.

[Owen Gibbins]

Thanks a lot guys. The cropping is not an issue. It is footage of the shuttle launch so the shot is predominantly sky. In fact it may help out a little!