Removing 'walkiness' from videos

Video_flaneur wrote on 3/20/2018, 11:11 PM

I use Mercalli stabilisation within VP15 and it does a pretty good job on hand held camera shake etc, but has practically no effect on the up and down motion created by someone walking with a camera. I have seen this referred to as 'walkiness'. Has anyone had success at minimising this walkiness in editing. I have Hitfilm Pro so maybe there are rotoscoping techniques I should investigate. Any suggestions welcome.

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fr0sty wrote on 3/21/2018, 12:03 AM

Buy a Ronin or similar stabilizer, or have to crop in so far trying to do it in post that your video looks terrible.

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Richard Jones wrote on 3/21/2018, 6:50 AM

I have the separate Mercalli Plug In as well as the SAL version and always use these rather than the one built into Vegas and have found these able to deal with the most extreme shake (even rescuing an 8mm film transferred to AVI which was jumping all over the place because the camera had a broken sprocket when the film was shot). You may need to play with or explore the various settings but the effort is well worth it.

Richard