Image Stabilizer

[Angelo Lorenzo]

I’d say try to go for Boris Optical Stabilizer, it works in Premiere and AE (although somewhat better in AE, but I was stabilizing racecar footage, so your mileage may vary). To be honest, I don’t know of too many other plugins.

[Ann Bens]

If you have Production Premium you will have Mocha.

[Vince Becquiot]

Or Try Mercalli.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Brian Louis]

Hi Vince
I don’t think Prodad has a mac version only windows

[Erik Lindahl]

Magic Bullet Steady has done a good jobb for me in After Effects and Final Cut Pro but it seems NOT to have support for Premier. Looking at Redgiantsoftware’s site they state “Not Available for CS5” so might not be the best horse to bet on.

Have a look anyhow, perhaps send them a mail asking if / when you could see it come out:

https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-steady/

Lock & Load works great in Final Cut Pro and is fast. I thought they where planning an AE-version and thus perhaps a Premier one but seems not so.. Again, doesn’t hurt to ask them

https://www.coremelt.com/products/lock-and-load/lock-and-load-x.html

Going from Lock & Load’s site they compare them selves to Bolris Optical Stablaizer which seems to be available for all host-apps out there, both Mac and Windows. I personally have zero experience with it however.

https://www.borisfx.com/units/optical_stabilizer.php

As someone pointed out you should use Mocha for stabilization also given this is a much more time consuming way of doing things, you gain a lot of control from going that route.

Good luck 🙂

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
http://www.freecloud.se

[Corbin Gross]

Thanks for the advice everyone.

I really want to stay in Premiere as there are bunches of little clips, many of which are panning shots or walking through crowds or that kind of thing. I’m sure Mocha does a dynamite job but for this project I require speed over quality.

I’ll probably go with the Boris plugin over the New Blue as I already know that everybody loves Boris and New Blue doesn’t seem to have the same reputation.

Corbin Gross
Creative Services
Marketing
SanMar Corp.

[Erik Lindahl]

I’d recommend you try a few different trail-versions if you can. These types of plugins can vary a lot in quality and can also have different stregths. Some faster, some slower, some more precise and so forth.

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
http://www.freecloud.se

[Erik Lindahl]

I’d recommend you try a few different trail-versions if you can. These types of plugins can vary a lot in quality and can also have different stregths. Some faster, some slower, some more precise and so forth.

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
http://www.freecloud.se

[Corbin Gross]

So I’ve downloaded the trial versions of both Boris Optical Stabilizer and New Blue Stabilizer. There’s some serious stability issues it seems. It’s very likely user error. I have no idea how to properly set up my computer and preferences to keep most of this stuff running smoothly. I suppose I’ll learn.

The New Blue Stabilizer will crash Premiere by just dropping the filter on any clip. If I am occasionally successful at adding the filter, any change, render, or save will bring a crash.

Boris Optical Stabilizer is a little touchy, but as long as I tweak the settings in precisely the right order, it has beautiful results.

Corbin Gross
Creative Services
Marketing
SanMar Corp.

[Alex Udell]

As of CS3…

Unless someone can confirm otherwise….

Boris Optical Stabalizer doesn’t work in PPro.

It was listed on their site. But upon trying the demo, it displays a message that it doesn’t work in PPro and should be used via AE.

I talked to them about it at the time, and it had something to do with PPro not having the calls to read ahead necessary to create the pixel interpolation like they can do in AE.

Alex