Needing image stabilization/correction – ideas?

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Al,

After Effects CS5.5 has the new Warp Stabilizer that is just amazing! I’ve used it a lot on wedding clips and also got to apply it to some aerial footage recently and it looked great.

There are also third-party stabilizers out there, but not sure if any work directly in Premiere, most operate as an AE plug-in.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor

[Al Bergstein]

Thanks Jeff. Being new to Pr I’ve not dipped into AE just yet. I’ll go check out what I assume are some decent web videos on it and give it a go.

Al

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Al,

Didn’t know if you owned AE, I guess you do. Plenty of great tutorial vids out there. From Premiere, right-click on shaky clip in sequence and choose “New After Effects Comp” and it will open the clip in AE. Then grab “Warp Stabilizer” from Animation menu and drop on clip. It does take a while to process, so hopefully the clip is not too long. After the initial analyze stage, you can change settings and not have to re-analyze.

Default settings work nice for a lot of clips. Note that you can choose Smooth Motion, or NO Motion. No motion usually requires more zoom in so is not that suitable for clips with a lot of motion. Smooth motion minimizes moves and looks natural. It will need to render in Premiere for smooth playback.

Good luck, you will love it

Jeff

[Al Bergstein]

One last question. If I’m using multi camera, and I have the ‘shaky’ part maybe once or twice mid way in the clip, should I run the clip through AE *before* or *after* I setup and do the multi edit. Meaning should I take the raw clip, process it all the way through, then setup multi camera, or should I setup the MC and apply AE to the final clip after editing?

Does the question make sense?
,

Al

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Al,

You ONLY want to process the actual shaky part, trust me! I have a fast machine and it takes a WHILE to process. Results are worth it.

I don’t use multi-cam, but I know that involves nested sequences and that could get problematic with Dynamic Linking, I really haven’t tried it myself.

Yes, I guess try stabilizing AFTER cutting it up, then you will have the individual segments selected and can work on them as small parts. I’m usually doing clips of just 30-60 seconds.

Jeff

[Tony Connoly]

Jeff,

When I right-click on a clip in PP, I do not see “New After Effects Comp”.

I do see “Replace With After Effects Composition”. Is that what you meant?

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tony,

You’re right – just going from memory on a lot of these responses, so syntax may vary a bit

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Tony Connoly]

I closed out of AE and now the clip in PP is “Offline”. What do I do??