Stabilizing Footage With Rotation?

[Conseannery]

I can’t open the file…I still use AE 7.0 Pro and you created the project with CS3 I suppose. Is there a way to open the file anyway?

[Peter O’connell]

Hi I don’t think you can convert it. I don’t have time to do it in AE7 properly. Maybe you could download the CS3 trial.
Good luck
Pete

[Conseannery]

Pete, thanks a lot for your efforts!

Right now I don’t have the time to download and install CS3.
But I will do that in the next days and have a look at your project file. For now I came up with decent results by adding more contrast to the video, then precomping it and afterwards applying the stabilization. It’s looking ok considering the footage quality. I will leave it now as it is. But maybe you can briefly tell me what you did in order to stabilize it?

Thanks again!

[Peter O’connell]

Hi, precomping to increase contrast is a good idea. In the colour corrected precomp you can also use median and blur to reduce chatter. Also animating a levels effect in the precomp might help you deal with the darkening at either end. Make sure you have your footage interpreted correctly. This footage is Upper field first (I think). Make sure to check preserve edges. If a point is chattering, you can track another nearby point and average them with an expression (point1 + point2) /2. Don’t stabilize scale.
I did’t do all this stuff in the comp I sent, but my track points seemed to work OK.

Pete O’Connell