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When to stabilize
When stabilizing shaky video with the Warp Stabilizer in CS5.5, at what stage of the process do you do this? Do you stabilize the raw video or the final sequences?
Will this change in CS6 when the Warp Stabilizer is built right into Premiere Pro?
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Up to you, depends on what you feel like.
If you have a lot of it, then I would wait till the edit is locked and then ONLY stabilize the footage you need.
W/CS6, we won’t have to go out to AE to do it.Chris Tompkins
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Thank you. To me, this seems like the top feature of CS6.
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Chris,
If I stabilize a clip, and then trim the clip afterwards, how do I get Premiere and AE to re-evaluate the cropping? For example, if I cut out a very shaky part of the clip, less cropping will be required but Premiere does not seem to recognize this.
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Are you dino linking? Roundtripping?
Then stabilize after the edit is locked.
Chris Tompkins
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Chris,
I am a little bit confused by how the link between PP and AE works.
If I stabilize 5 clips, do I need a separate AE project for each clip?
If I update the Warp options in AE, how do I make the update showup in PP?
Regards.
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I don’t like to create a new AE proj. for ea. dino link either.
I don’t know how to avoid that so I dino link one maybe and then manually import sequences after that. I’m sure there a way.When you alter something in the dino-linked AE proj. it will auto update in the PP sequence.
Chris Tompkins
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I recommend doing your selects and rough cuts first, then stabilize—if only for memory and performance reasons. You don’t want to waste time and other resources stabilizing footage that you’re not going to use.
See this for information about memory and storage requirements, leading you to want to stabilize after doing selects and rough cuts:
https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2012/05/memory-and-storage-tips-for-warp-stabilizer-and-3d-camera-tracker.html———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
product manager, professional video software
After Effects team blog
Premiere Pro team blog
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Todd,
10kb per frame does not seem like a lot to me, but I will take your word for it!
Besides the performance hit, what are the workflow considerations?
On the one hand, I want to see the stabilized video when I am editing so I know what the final will look like.
On the other hand, stabilization seems to depend on where the cuts are made.
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10KB per frame is a lot when you multiply that by a lot of frames and a lot of clips.
I gave my recommendation for workflow in my previous response: Do selects and rough cuts first; then stabilize. There’s no point wasting time and storage stabilizing things you’re not going to use.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
product manager, professional video software
After Effects team blog
Premiere Pro team blog
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