Stabilizing software

[Terry Esslinger]

OK, I just opened Vegas again. PLaced a short avi file on my time line. Selected it. Went to Tools, Scripting, Deshake. Deshaker “did its thing”. At the end of “its thing” it replaced the event on the timeline with the new ‘deshook’ event as a take. It also added the take to the project media as 00001xxx.avi. I could then right click on the event in the time line and by choosing ‘take’ I got a menu that listed the original and the ‘deshook’ version and I could cycle through which one was on the time line. Worked perfectly. BTW this is not an editing machine. 2.2MHz P4 512mb XP running all the junk in the world.

That is to say, I don’t think the problem is with the script or Vegas. Unfortunately I can’t say what it is.

[Steve Edwards]

Thanks for returning my message. I seem to be having problems. I have downloaded the package that you are talking about. I can run Deshake from either VD, or from Vegas scripts. When I run it through Vegas, it does its thing, then says: Error: specified file cannot be found”. If I run through VD, it does both passes, and shows the one screen on the left, and 2 screens on the right with all the little pin like things doing their job. Then when it is done, I go to my document folder where it is sent, and play it back, but the video that I get is the 2 screens with all the pin like things. It is just like it recorded the two screens doing the last pass. I have tried 3 different files, each way, and does the same each time.
Thanks for the help, it’s evidentily not going to work for me. We tried

[Mahesh Upadhyaya]

Deshaker works for me on V8 except
1 – It crashes if the project is set to 32 bit. I set it to 8 bit to deshake.
2- The script does not seem to find the panasonic coder. VD is fine with this.
So the script works fine in 8-bit mode with uncompressed codec.

As far as using virutual Dub is concerned, when all else failed I read the very detailed explanation by John Mayer, A GUIDE TO USING DESHAKER. I think I downloaded the word doc together with the deshake zip file. I throughly recommend reading the guide before giving up.

Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk

[Steve Edwards]

I read everything that there is on this. I am discussing this right now with John Meyer, and he thinks he has found the error message that I am getting, just don’t know why. I did get it to work last night, only if I go through Virtual Dub. I did it on a shaky piece of footage and it really didn’t seem to do that much. Some jerkyness and distortion around the edges. Really want this to work. Still nothing thru Vegas though. The settings that I used in the 1rst and 2nd pass settings, was the ones that is shown in the manual.

[Allen Zagel]

Why not do it right when you shoot?

Also ArcSoft has/had a stabilizing software that didn’t work too bad.

Allen

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[Harold Brown]

Distortion around edges makes me think that it was working. If the footage is shaking a lot you probably have to make several passes. You deshake the deshaked footage. I have done 2 passes to improve output. The script works perfect for me in Vegas Pro 8. Once you are done you typically apply zoom to the clip to get rid of the edges. I have also heard that some people apply a border to avoid zooms (quality loss).

Harold
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[Harold Brown]

Just to add to my comments, some FX that are applied to the clip can cause problems. Selecting a clip that has velocity changes made to it will come back with the wrong starting point. There are some clips that I just don’t want to have to redo so I skip those. Big lesson, apply deshake prior to apply effects.

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[Steve Edwards]

I got it working on Vegas Pro 8, but still don’t work on my other computer with Vegas 6. I can use it though as a stand alone on that computer. I am just going to have to learn what settings to use to make it work the best. If anyone has some great settings that they would like to share, I would appreciate it.
Thanks, God Bless, and Happy Thanksgiving!

[Anoni Moose]

Although not “integrated” nor free like the scripts and free software discussed above (which I’ve downloaded, thanks!) there’s a program called “Steadyhand” (can be google’d for) that works pretty well in stand-alone mode and is very simple to use (I’m not selling it nor am I connected with them in any way). Don’t know if it has HD support though.