@Glenn-C - I use it all the time. My hands aren't as steady as they used to be. My Sony camcorder does a great job at smoothing out the minor shaking but my static shots still suffer from what I call 'camera drift'. The Video Stabilisation FX makes my static shots rock solid. I don't bother with all the settings, I just leave it at Basic and set the mode to Freeze Frame. I used to use Smooth Motion for my panned shots as it did a really good job of smoothing out the pan, until I found that the final render produced the odd skipped frame during the pan.

In conclusion, I think that this is one of the best plugins and I would be lost without it. The added bonus is that it's free.

I cannot for the life of me, get Video Stabilization to work, on even simple shots where an old film splice has juddered for three frames at the end of the shot. It makes the image zoom in and out on random frames, rather than freezing the image. Why is it asking me if I want Freeze Frame or Smooth Motion at the end of analysis?? Makes no sense.

You should first trim your event before attaching the Stabilizing FX. Difference between Freeze Frame and Smooth Motion is, Freeze Frame makes image rock solid as shot from a tripod without any camera movement, while smooth motion will leave intended motion of your camera unaffected, like a pan shot.

@3POINT - Ah, right! I’ll give that a go. Stoopidly thought it meant....oh, never mind.

Ah! Retested, works superbly with FREEZE FRAME.

Been trying it today on a boogie piano performance where a tripod mounted remote camera was just off the left hand of the player. Who was bouncing an 800 pound piano all over the stage. The freeze frame seems to be the best and worst of all worlds for me. Found it worked really well when the cut to that camera was fairly short and I picked a reference frame in the clip with the least shake. It very nicely kept the stuff that was supposed to be still rock solid and left the piano free to move as it was actually doing. But on the longer solo it looked like it was also doing just fine playing it on the timeline but went a little bit wild when I rendered it... zooming in and out at times and going completely black at others. Leaving it set to smooth wasn't quite as good on playback but at least it rendered ok.

Btw, for this kind of shot I think it would work better for me if I could position the analysis box off center because the center is where my bouncing piano is located while there's stuff around the edges that absolutely should not be moving.

I've tried all of the above, including just TRIMMING the section I need FREEZE-FRAMED. Still, sometimes it works, sometimes everything goes tilt-a-whirl wonky for no reason. It's a plugin that needs to be rewritten from the ground up.

For instance, why do you have to run the Motion Analysis first and THEN select Freeze Frame?? Because you then have to RE-RUN the Motion Analysis AGAIN!! Why not be able to select it first and save the step?

Besides the fact that 70% of the time it takes an hour to get the plugin to work, if at all, properly, without it introducing motion artifacts and black frames and such. It really is a nightmare.

Besides the fact that 70% of the time it takes an hour to get the plugin to work, if at all, properly, without it introducing motion artifacts and black frames and such. It really is a nightmare.

I reinstalled build 387 of VPRO17. In that build the stabilisation plugin works (almost always) correctly and doesn't require a re-run of the motion analysis after selecting "freeze motion". This re-run is a bug that has been introduced in the last builds (also newly released VMS17 has this issue). I really hope that Magix will correct this before releasing VPRO18.

Thank you, I will give 387 a shot.
However, does going back to an old install erase anything newly-fixed of significance?

Thank you, I will give 387 a shot.
However, does going back to an old install erase anything newly-fixed of significance?

Not that I'm aware of. Projects created in a newer build are editable. Only disadvantage, you have to de-install Vpro17 first before you can re-install a previous build. Also after installing the previous build, you will get each time this annoying message that there is a newer build when you startup Vegas.

I only had failures with the new stabilization plug-in. :(

When I really need it I use the old Stabilize, which was fortunately still included up to now. I am afraid it will get removed completely before the new one is... stable enough.

@adimatis It's been removed from Internal Preferences in recently released VMS17 so I suspect, as you suggest, it won't appear in Pro 18. It's still hidden away somewhere as old projects that use it open with it.

😲 what?! Oh no, that's indeed worrying then. Have not updated to the latest build... but man, that's a bummer to hear! :(

Worked on some, not on others. Mercalli works 100% for me (even on some it shouldn't). Expensive but can save a money shot.