View Full Version : Fixing shaky footage


Joseph Laczkoskie
December 14th, 2009, 04:16 PM
Is it possible to fix some of your shaky shots in final cut and make em appear to be on a stabilizer? If so how is it done?

Perrone Ford
December 14th, 2009, 04:40 PM
FCP SmoothCam Filter Demo on Vimeo

Justin Tomchuk
December 15th, 2009, 06:39 PM
Perrone, great video that filter works incredibly well. I'll take a look at this filter next time I use Final Cut.

Robert Turchick
December 15th, 2009, 10:08 PM
depending on the type and amount of shakiness, smoothcam gave me mixed results. Just got Lock and Load from CoreMelt which works much better and faster. There's a promo code too for dvinfo members. $20 off
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Chris Davis
December 16th, 2009, 11:15 AM
I use Red Giant's Magic Bullet Steady plug-in for After Effects. Results are pretty much identical to the SmoothCam example.

Matthew Overstreet
January 3rd, 2010, 02:08 PM
That's pretty interesting, question though... does it result in any resolution loss?

John Woo
January 7th, 2010, 09:33 PM
Any of the great plugins for Sony Vegas?

Aric Mannion
January 13th, 2010, 09:46 AM
That's pretty interesting, question though... does it result in any resolution loss?

Always, because it has to scale up the footage to compensate for it's shakiness. After Effects has a nice stabilizer as well, and I heard CS4's is even better.

Thomas Moore
January 25th, 2010, 06:05 AM
Any of the great plugins for Sony Vegas?



New Deshaker for Sony Vegas (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.edmiston/deshaker.htm)