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  • plug-in to smooth shaky picture

    Posted by Bret Latter on August 12, 2006 at 7:01 pm

    I have seen in the past plug-ins to help smooth out shaky footage.
    I can not find it now that I need it. Does any one know of a location for this plug-in?
    I’m on a FCP 5.04 machine.

    Thanks,
    Bret

    Johnw3d replied 19 years, 9 months ago 8 Members · 11 Replies
  • 11 Replies
  • Chris Poisson

    August 12, 2006 at 7:33 pm

    istabilize is good.

  • Walter Biscardi

    August 12, 2006 at 8:00 pm

    It’s called Shake. The motion stabilization in Shake is ridiculous and at $499 it’s about the price of a plug-in.

    Walter Biscardi, Jr.
    https://www.biscardicreative.com
    HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
    HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

    “I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

  • Thaxter Clavemarlton

    August 12, 2006 at 9:05 pm

    [Chris Poisson] “istabilize is good.”

    Ditto.

    Its amazing (and MUCH cheaper than $500).

    (OTOH, Shake is good for much MORE than just this, however.)

  • Steve Eisen

    August 13, 2006 at 7:37 am

    BCC V4 from Boris.

    Steve Eisen
    Eisen Video Productions
    Director-At-Large
    Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

  • Alan Lacey

    August 13, 2006 at 10:53 am

    Dont forget AfterEffects, Commotion Pro – probably really cheap now as it’s more or less dead, but with a wonderful motion tracker, or Combustion – a bit pricy just for stabilization.

    Alan

  • Chris Poisson

    August 13, 2006 at 2:32 pm

    You know, I have the Boris filters and I have yet to use the stabilizer but it probably rocks, as do all those BCC filters. Funny, as much as I like them I hate most other Boris products.

    But to another point made here, Commotion Pro has one of the most bitchin’ trackers I have ever used, so it might be a bargain on eBay or somewhere, but AE has caught up with it it would seem, but one cool thing about Commotion is you can export the tracking data and use it in AE, which is really cool.

    But iStabilize is probably all you need.

  • Walter Biscardi

    August 13, 2006 at 5:44 pm

    [Chris Poisson] “But to another point made here, Commotion Pro has one of the most bitchin’ trackers I have ever used, so it might be a bargain on eBay or somewhere, but AE has caught up with it it would seem, but one cool thing about Commotion is you can export the tracking data and use it in AE, which is really cool.”

    Have you guys seen the Shake stabilization? What they showed at NAB was absolutely amazing for camera stabilization and for $499, it’s a great price.

    Walter Biscardi, Jr.
    https://www.biscardicreative.com
    HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
    HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

    “I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

  • Alan Lacey

    August 13, 2006 at 7:14 pm

    Shake, I’d love to Walter, but another long learning curve??

    Also aren’t they selling it off as there’s something new coming along (and another learning curve I suspect)

    Alan

  • David Smith

    August 13, 2006 at 7:49 pm

    I don’t have any experience with it, but for $69 there’s the Motion Tracker Collection from CVH, a set of Final Cut plug-ins that includes a stabilizer.

    https://www.chv-plugins.com/motion.html

  • Thaxter Clavemarlton

    August 13, 2006 at 8:24 pm

    OK, I don’t want to belabor this (well, yes I do!)

    “iStabilize” is an AMAZING image stabilizer and it costs $59.

    (Yes, that’s one dollar less than $60.)

    I’ve used it to save footage I took from a 50-foot cherry-picker arm’s basket in a high wind.

    Click on the following link and view the demos and THEN we can talk “price-to-performance” value.

    https://www.pixlock.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=7&Itemid=113

    Pretty cool demo’s too!

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