plug-in to smooth shaky picture

[Johnw3d]

Bret, there’s also a sub-pixel Stabilizer in my Motion Tracking plugins for FCP. You can download a demo here: https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/index.htm.

As you can see, there are lots of options, and the basic trade-offs are:

1. price – the FCP plugins are around $50, iStabilize $60, the others $500 & up
2. convenience – the FCP plugins work directly in the timeline, have modest learning curves, no need to export/import the troublesome footage. The high-end tools have quite large learning curves.
3. quality – by far, the higher end tools like Shake & Commotion do the best job, probably essential if you’ve got a lot of both pan & roll instability, iStabilize does a very good job also, the FCP plugins are useful if you have relatively minor stabilization issues.

Cheers,
John