Problems with Pan/Crop Event

An_Cat_Dubh wrote on 11/30/2004, 9:47 AM

Hello everybody, this is my first post in this forum.
Here is my question:
I had some clips modified because of heavy camera shaking during shots (due to strong winds). I tried to get a steadier result by using the Pan/Crop event utility. I took a reference point in the scene and tried to keep it as steady as possible.
After rendering all the project I realized that the affected clips weren't sharp as they should have been, in particular all the edges of objects were jigsawed, especially visible if these objects move in the clip.
My settings are the following (in PAL because I live in Italy)
-Video Properties
PAL DV 720*576 @ 25 fps
Lower Field First
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0926
Render Quality: Best
Motion Blur Type: Gaussian
Deinterlace: None
-Rendering
720*576 @ 25 fps 4:3
I-frames: 16 B-frames: 3
Main Profile @ Main Level
Interlaced, Bottom Field First
Video Quality: High
Insert Sequence Header Before Every GOP
VBR Two Pass

I also forced the resample for those clips but to no avail.
Can you help me solve this mess out?
Thanks in advance,
Bye, Tony

Comments

[r]Evolution wrote on 11/30/2004, 11:31 AM

OUCH!
You are doing it the extremely hard way. I too was trying to do it this way... at first. The results are just too unnatural looking. Even if you get it locked the way you think it should be, when you look at your final output you may still be disapointed a bit.

You need to grab you a copy of 'Dynapel SteadyHand' or an equivalent program. It will do it automatically for you. You just load your source video and tell it where to save the output. There are also some controls that will allow you to Crop or Zoom to compensate for the 'Steadying' too. Check it out:
www.Dynapel.com
or you can do a search for Dynapel SteadyHand. You'll see they make a Plug-in for premiere but for VEGAS you'll have to Steady your video before bringing it in to VEGAS. Or you can continue your edits with the Shaky Video then do a 'Replace' and insert your Stabalized Video. -but heah, I'm sure you can work all that out.

DGrob wrote on 11/30/2004, 1:37 PM

Virtual Dub Deshaker filter does an excellant job, and it's free! Check out this article for guidance. Darryl

http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/articles/deshaker_guide.htm