Stabilizing Footage

[Chris Wright]

There’s an outside box for max search track, inside for actual tracking pixels and a cross for the actual x,y pixels you can offset so you can choose a good track and just offset the position you want. A bigger outside box takes longer but tracks better. Distance between the 2 boxes varies, small movement=small inbetween distance, large movement in frame requires larger room to track effectively to next frame. You can view ahead and see what you need to do.

You can track all together, there’s no loss in tracking. You can increase track

effectiveness by using a temporary adustment layer-> sharpen and contrast more.

For rotation tracking, you need more than one track, one middle, one to the side.
If possible, both feature regions should be on the same object, or at least they should both be on objects that are the same distance from the camera. The first feature region (on the left by default) represents the base of the tracking. The farther apart the regions, the more accurate the calculations and the better the result.

You can’t track things that go offscreen. If this sounds like a lot of work, you can use another program that is free and less hassle. It’s as good as monet for stabilizing footage. Did I mention its free?

virtualdub here
https://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

deshaker plugin for virtualdub here for removing shakes in rotations, zoom, pan, etc.
https://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm

here’s 23 excellent plugins for virtualdub that are free like deblocking, deflicker,

old cinema etc.
https://compression.ru/video/deflicker/index_en.html

[Chris Wright]

There’s an outside box for max search track, inside for actual tracking pixels and a cross for the actual x,y pixels you can offset so you can choose a good track and just offset the position you want. A bigger outside box takes longer but tracks better. Distance between the 2 boxes varies, small movement=small inbetween distance, large movement in frame requires larger room to track effectively to next frame. You can view ahead and see what you need to do.

You can track all together, there’s no loss in tracking. You can increase track

effectiveness by using a temporary adustment layer-> sharpen and contrast more.

For rotation tracking, you need more than one track, one middle, one to the side.
If possible, both feature regions should be on the same object, or at least they should both be on objects that are the same distance from the camera. The first feature region (on the left by default) represents the base of the tracking. The farther apart the regions, the more accurate the calculations and the better the result.

You can’t track things that go offscreen. If this sounds like a lot of work, you can use another program that is free and less hassle. It’s as good as monet for stabilizing footage. Did I mention its free?

virtualdub here
https://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

deshaker plugin for virtualdub here for removing shakes in rotations, zoom, pan, etc.
https://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm

here’s 23 excellent plugins for virtualdub that are free like deblocking, deflicker,

old cinema etc.
https://compression.ru/video/deflicker/index_en.html

[Alan Tonn]

OK, virtual dub…

I have been using it for years, where is the stabilization feature?

[Alan Tonn]

whoops… should have read farther…

ignore last post

[Alan Tonn]

Thanks for the links to those plugins.

The deshaker helped somewhat, but overall it still isnt getting the shake out of my footage.

However, nothing I have tried gets anywhere near the fix that I need.

I have posted a lower resolution version to show what the footage looks like. Please have a look at it on my blog here:

My Blog

As always, aaaha. 🙂
(any and all help appreciated)

[Chris Wright]

anything is deshakable if you increase the tolerances enough. They are those numbers that analyze the motion vectors. Defaults settings for you may not be strong enough.