Be aware that in VMS stabilizing is only possible at media level and not at event level. To stabilise only a trimmed part of an event you should create first a subclip of that part and stabilise that subclip at media level.

Many thanks for the helpful replies. I definitely have some camera "swishing" in my shots. 😀 I found out about using media level when I tried to do it on the event and got the error msg. 😀

To clarify a previous suggestion -- if you want to stabilize only the trimmed clips, you should render them and reintroduce them to the timeline. There are a couple of ways to do this. I believe this is still the case; Stabilizer is intended to be used only at the Media level.

Here is my workflow:

a) Use trimmer to generally select what I want and save it as a sub-clip to media window

b) Stabilize sub-clip in media window

c) Put sub-clip on timeline

d) Edit timeline event

e) Render MP4

So, do I get a stabilized MP4 this way or do I need to delete (b) and:

f) Import the MP4 into media, stabilize, put in timeline and re-render?

Thanks,

Ralph

You can trim directly an event on the timeline, than right click trimmed event and choose create subclip. A subclip will be generated and will overlay the event on the timeline as a "take". Also the subclip will show up in the Project Media tab. Stabilize the subclip in the Project Media tab. The result of the stabilise is shown directly in the overlay take at the event. By pressing "T" you can switch between unstabilised and stabilised to see difference. Don't delete subclip, you will loose stabilisation.

Render whole stabilized project when finished, no renders in between as wrongly suggested here before.

@3POINT Thanks for the tip to bypass intermediate render. Didn't know about "T" key and that is very useful.

Didn't know about "T" key and that is very useful

Same here. Thanks @3POINT

Another useful trick to compare unstabilised and stabilised in the preview is the split screen view. When activated it will show one half of the preview unstabilised and the other half stabilised at the same time. (this setting will not effect the renderproces).