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image stabilization
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Massimiliano,
Smoothcam work fine if there is little motion it the shot, otherwise it can make bizarre ghosting on motion, but you might like it. I don’t, plus the time it takes is agonizing in the best of cases.
For routine stabilization I most always use After Effects.
Have a wonderful day.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Why the heck would it pour water on the image stabilization?”
in case it starts to smoke 😉
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The ghosting is actualy motion blur in the frames – which is one of the biggest drawbacks to image stabilisation. While it’s possible to lock down the physical movement of the frame, any actual motion blur in the video will remain and instead of a moving shot with organic motion blur, you get a stable shot with unusual directional blurring.
For this reason, in the past, I’ve found sometimes it’s better to leave the shot natural if the movement is somewhat motivated (I found adding a helicopter sound to a heli shot did wonders that way once) – as the human visual magic system isn’t generally too put off by movement like that. Whereas unexplained bluring is a static shot is more off putting.
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