the Boris product does not set the timeline to the lenght of the media automatically you have to click in the duration box and set the lenght

if you need to find the length of the mdeia expand the track and click the face or media track and it will be displayed in the controls window

the motion tracking is very flexible it allows to to choose the most important elements to track

Cheers

Paul

Thank you Paul

I have tried expanding the track and I’ve clicked the face and / or media track. But the duration is not displayed in the controls window… But I manually specified a value for the duration (that probable do not match the correct duration) and I can view the video…in slow motion it appears – and with no audio.

Joran

hhmm,

I use RED and was assuming it would be the same as they are essentially from the same code

I'll download the ltd versions and have a look

Paul

Paul

I finally got it to work, in a way. But it seems that you only can stabilize “static” shots, not panning and / or zooming shots (without a lot of key framing). But again, maybe I’m doing something wrong…

Joran

Difficulties stabilizing a zoom is understandable, but pans... ???

The main problem seems to be panning. But sometimes you both pan and zoom...

Joran

Well, I have been trying to figure it out for a while and I give up ( I am way to tired to think right now!).

I have to say that the tutorial makes very little sense to me, there are things written in it that I can't replicate with my version of FX keyframer. Has anyone else run into this?

I played around with the Boris Stabilizer some this weekend, and finally figured out how it works. First, their tutorial is as bad as their user interface. If you don't have their way of working figured out, you won't be able to see what's going on.

The biggest surprise I had was getting to see the target controls for the stabilizer. If
you've figured out how to load a clip into the stabilizer, you've probably seen the preview window stay just as it is, even when you've clicked on the keyframe and the settings window. Well, the secret is the little monitor-shaped icon on the track with the stabilizer effect. Once you click on that, a shrunken-down preview window opens. Resize that so you can see the whole frame, and your video is there WITH THE TARGET BOX!

After that it gets pretty easy. Put the target on something that's easy to see, stays
visible throughout the clip, and doesn't move at (in the real world) all during the clip. Then you can click the "track motion" button on the settings window -- it's the button with the crosshairs icon at the bottom of that window -- and the stabilizer will start the analysis.

After that you can export the clip with the corrections applied. I usually exported to
an uncompressed AVI, composited on black. This leaves black bars around the edges, like you get with deshaker when you have edge compensation turned off, but then I use Vegas to crop the image and export to a DV file for the final project.

Adding more than one target box is easy. I'm not sure what it adds to the tracking,
though, unless you're trying to eliminate rotation.

The biggest problem I have with the Boris Stabilizer is it just can't handle any intentional camera motion. Its goal seems to be to keep the targets you selected at the same place throughout the clip. If you pan, the image gets shifted off to one side; if you zoomed, then it actually scales the picture to maintain the original size!

I'd say deshaker is still the best general solution. It can handle pans and zooms, and really can turn a hand-held shot into something nice. But...

Deshaker can get confused. I've seen this on close-ups in the concert I'm editing.
When the camera's wide, everything's fine, but when one of the performers fills the
screen, deshaker seems to lock onto them and decide THEY'RE the intended movement. As a result, the background seems to pulse in time with the movement, while the performer almost, but not quite, stands still.

I've taken a few of these problem clips and run the original footage through Boris
Stabilizer. The results are stunning. Since I can tell Boris what to treat as
stationary, it can keep, say, the microphone or a light in one place. It doesn't
care what the performer does.

I'm not going to claim to be an expert on Boris, but if anyone needs help getting started, I'll be glad to help.