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Trouble with video stabilization
So I know I did this to myself but I thought I’d be able to easily stabilize it afterwards.
What’s happening here is a timelapse of roughly 900 frames that I’ve edited in Lightroom and used a timelapse plugin to render out a video. I wanted to do a pan during the timelapse but I don’t have any sort of a motor to do it with so I just manually panned the camera every 10 frames and then every 5 frames after the sun was up. This is the glitchy-ness that you see in the exported video – https://youtu.be/Lciat8-A3z8I then took this video into After Effects and ran Warp Stabilizer VFX and I’ve tried multiple settings and combinations but I can’t get a final product that doesn’t still have some glitches or very noticeable corner pin distortions/zoom-ins. The final clip that I am looking to get will be 7-10 seconds long, if that helps at all.
Any ideas on other methods I could try short of keyframing it manually?
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8 Replies
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That’s a private video and isn’t viewable.
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Sorry about that, it should be viewable now.
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Very true Dave. Although I may have to give up on the pan because I don’t know if I have the ability to move in the fraction of an angle that I would need to in order to fit in enough frames, but if it’s worth doing it’s worth doing right.
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Manually doing a pan is tough, but if you shoot large photos you can easily add some movement in post afterwards without sacrifice any resolution. It won’t be quite as good as a pan or dolly movement, but it won’t be a static shot either.
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I’ll have to look into that one. Thanks for the tip Dave!
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I don’t know that you wouldn’t be able to stabilize it with a single tracker point at the corner of the building and then add pan back in.
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I would use Deshaker. Google / YouTube it. I’ve had better luck with that than warp stabiliser for time lapse.
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Looks pretty good to me with the combination of single-point tracking, position keyframing, precomposing and Warp Stabilizer. The lens flares are the main thing that jump around now. Maybe some sort of a frame bend would help lessen that effect some.
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