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  • Stabilization zooms WAY in

    Posted by Bret Williams on May 2, 2012 at 8:39 pm

    One more question. Can you tell I’m finishing up my first X edit?

    It’s a multicam testimonials piece. The second cam is kind of a shaky cam thing. But too shaky. Would rather it be smooth. It’s shot is just one long 10 minute shot, which is of course one of the source angles for the multi cam clip. Can’t stabilize the multi cam clip itself of course, just the raw clip. When I do that, it takes into acct all the footage. Even the huge bobbles. Which makes sense. But now the clip is zoomed in some crazy percentage cutting off the persons head. In legacy, I believe I could adjust the zoom. I don’t see that here in the stabilization parameters. Sure is smooth though. His neck hardly moves at all!

    So now that it’s added the stabilization, can I zoom it back out somehow?

    Chris Walker replied 14 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Alister Robbie

    May 3, 2012 at 8:10 am

    by hitting the Show button that appears to the right of the stabilization name and checkbox, you will see the familiar sliders there that were in FCP7. you can dial in the amount of stabilisation for Translation, Rotation and Scale. this should help you get control of your wayward stabilisation..


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  • Bret Williams

    May 5, 2012 at 4:27 am

    Yeah. They have no effect. Maybe a couple pixels. It’s zoomed in like 300-400 % . That might be necessary for the worst part of the clip, but I just need it zoomed 115% or so for the few seconds I need.

  • Chris Walker

    May 5, 2012 at 7:35 pm

    If you make a separate clip of just the part you need stabilized, and that part isn’t super shaky, it will not soon way in when you stabilize.

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