when I stabilize it changes project size?

[Stephen Mann]

I never use Stabilize, but I can see how it would necessarily reduce your resolution. Stabilize routines work by taking a subset of your video frames and rotating and moving the data to match the previous frame. Since the result is never as big as the original, cropping becomes necessary, and the next standard smaller frame resolution is 720.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Jeff Karp]

I dunno, I swear I have done it before and it doesn’t change the rez.. anyone else ?

[Mikhail Petrushin]

I use stabilisation very often (now with Mercalli, but I used to use Sony Stabilizer as well) and it does not change the project’s resolution.

By the nature of stabilisation the resolution is decreased but the stabilizer upscales result to project’s resolution automatically.
Have you checked your project’s settings?

[Jeff Karp]

not sure what to check.. even after the stabilize it says the resolution is the same .. but you can clearly see its chopped and zoomed in and losing a lot of the video… I don’t see any option to stabilize to a certain size… when I click on match properties it takes me to “open file” .. not sure how to use that

[Stephen Mann]

“…even after the stabilize it says the resolution is the same .. but you can clearly see its chopped and zoomed in and losing a lot of the video”

So which is it? In the OP you said that it changed to 720, now it’s the same but zoomed in. Zooming in is the only way that stabilization can be assured of having enough pixels to keep your image size while it rotates and shifts the frames to maintain stabilized. The shakier the footage, the more it has to zoom in.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Jeff Karp]

sorry for the confusion.. I reimport the clips this time .. I first set the project to the correct size.. 1980×1080.. and they show up fine unstabilized.. then I stabilized and in the full preview it stays as 1980×1080.. but the is actually chopped down.. and if I render it is chopped down.. I know its not supposed to be doing this, because I’ve done it before and this has not happened.. I’m going to try and import at 720 and the stabilize and see if it stays the same.. maybe it just can’t handle that high of a resolution

[Jeff Karp]

even at 720 its still shrinking it

[Norman Black]

So you are saying the output file is not 1080 like the input file?

Or are you saying the output visuals are different but the output file is still 1080? The borders cropped in.

If the later. That is how stabilization works. The Sony stabilizer is only capable of the cropping, zoomed in effect. Other stabilizers have features to fill in the outer borders various ways to minimize the amount of cropped/zoom effect.