Image Stabilization

[Jeff Kirkland]

Don’t forget to try stabilising in Motion. It has a lot more options available such as restricting the analysis area and point tracking..

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[Bret Williams]

Here’s my take. It’s basically the same as the stabilizer in FCP 7. EXCEPT that it’s applicable at the clip in to out level. Unlike FCP 7 which had to analyze the whole clip. That said, it does a better job because it only analizes the portion used, so it doesn’t have to make sweeping adjustments for the whole clip that don’t apply to just the small segment. If you’re applying it to the whole clip, I’d try just applying it in the sequence ot the segment used.

[Paul Figgiani]

Have a look at some test results:

The movie plays through from the Original clip – to the Motion Stabilized clip – to the Warp Stabilized clip.

I used a tracker in Motion.

The Adobe Warp stabilizer is far better.

https://f-video.s3.amazonaws.com/Stabilization_test.mp4

-paul.

[Bret Williams]

Yes it is. But you’d have to edit with premiere to use it. 🙂 Which is fine. I just haven’t gotten around to cutting my teeth on Premiere too deep yet. Since I have to sync dslr multicam by hand or with a plugin, I jumped into X and have been pretty happy. Used the stabilizer quite a bit and was perfectly happy for a shot or two here and there. But it can do some wacky stuff.

[Jeff Kirkland]

Most stabilisers are meant to smooth the motion rather than make it rock solid so in that light the FCPX filter isn’t doing too badly. The adobe warp stabiliser is probably one of the best for stabilisation but as mentioned it’s not the choice if time is an issue.

My usual approach is to try Final Cut first. If I’m unhappy with that then it’s off to After Effects for one of the options there (Mocha or warp stabiliser).

I’ve not tried Lock and Load recently but I’ve always liked ProDAD’s Mercalli for stabilisation. They don’t have a FCPX version yet although they say it’s coming. Meanwhile it could be worth trying the demo of the standalone version of Mercalli at https://www.prodad.com.

I have an edit coming up next week that was mostly shot with a hand-held Canon 7D so I’ll be interested to hear how your research goes.

Cheers,
Jeff K

Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Mike Fitzsimmons]

I’ve used Lock & Load often in FCP X and it works great. Fast and many levels of control. It’s even very good at locking a shot down.

Every once and a while I’ve gotten some odd GUI/memory issue but a restart brings me right back to where I needed to be.

All the best!!!

[George Manzanilla]

The Warp Stabilizer in After effects CS6 is by far the best stabilizer I’ve used. I’ve tried Motion, ProDad, SmoothCam, lock and load… it beats all of them

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[Ian Wilson]

I hope nobody minds me slightly highjacking this thread, but I have a related question …

I have a clip containing a pan from left to right; the shot was locked down on my tripod and there is hardly any vertical movement at all. However, the speed of the pan varies slightly throughout the shot. Is it possible to stabilize the speed of the pan? I don’t mind getting my hands dirty using keyframes, but I was hoping there might be an automated way of doing this.

Any thoughts?

Ian