Any fix for footage shot with stabilization on?

Jessariah67 wrote on 8/5/2008, 9:24 AM
We shot part of our day (24P HDV) with stabilization accidentally turned on. The footage shot on sticks is fine, but the handheld is a bit jerky - not terrible, but I'd like to know if anything is out there that can smooth it out a bit more?

Thanks for any input.

KH

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jrazz wrote on 8/5/2008, 1:59 PM
You can crop in some and use keyframes to smooth it out, but of course you will lose quality doing it this way on top of what the stabilization already cost you.

j razz
GlennChan wrote on 8/5/2008, 4:46 PM
In a program like After Effects...

Use a 1-point motion tracker, track off all the motion.

On an adjustment layer or whatnot, add motion back in. (Or an alternative would be to blend between the keyframes / use math operations to blend between the keyframes.)

Zoom in as necessary to get rid of black edges.

You COULD try to do this in Vegas... but the motion tracking part would just be painful.

2- An alternative would be to use the camera stabilization plugins out there.

3- Did you mean stabilization on or off?
farss wrote on 8/5/2008, 5:36 PM
If what's meant is On then that can produce a degree of stickiness in camera motion although it's more of an issue with say pans when the camera is on sticks. The image stabilsation tries to compensate for the motion of the pan and then gives up so the shot jumps. That's oftenly easy enough to deal with by just triming the first frames of the pan...or not.

Hand held I've not noticed this problem however one simple solution worth a try could be to add some motion blur on the video buss master at the offending sections. Try the various types of MB too. It's far from the ideal solution but it's simple and might mask the problem enough to be acceptable.

Bob.
Jessariah67 wrote on 8/5/2008, 6:47 PM
I'll play with it. The problem is the "stickiness" of the motion, due to the stabilization. It isn't a big deal at all, I just wanted to know if there was something out there that might help smooth it out.

Good suggestions here, though. Thanks for the input.

KH
RBartlett wrote on 8/6/2008, 3:13 PM
John Meyer wrote this tutorial for integrating this Vdub filter with Satish's plug-in to create a deshake workflow.

http://vegas.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=28849

Otherwise what Glenn said for AE (for which you'll find similar capabilities in NewTek Aura2, NewTek SpeedEDIT, Bauhaus Mirage and if money is no object Twixtor from http://www.revisionfx.com/products/twixtor/ )
farss wrote on 8/6/2008, 6:12 PM
Although what the OP requires is motion to be added not removed i.e. the reverse of deshaking, Twixtor would seem to be the best solution as it can add or remove motion blur. It's high on my list of goodies to buy for AE.
One concern though. I can't really fathom just what the Pro version of Twixtor adds, it would appear that you might need the Pro version to manually tweak the motion vectors which is what you'd probably need for this task.

Bob.