[M4RT1NJB]

I was wondering if there was any software that can remove camera shake from DV footage? I'm editing some footage from an old 8mm camera taken in windy conditions, and it could do with being a lot steadier. Any ideas will be appreciated.

Thanks

Martin

[dannyn]

Shakey footage will be shakey no matter what you do to it. Sort of like out-of-focus footage -- it's blurry when you shoot, it'll be blurry when you work with it.

There is one possibility though. Commotion Pro will allow you stabilize the footage to an extent (depending on how shakey the footage is). It's still going to look funky, i.e. wrap-around edges, camera blur, etc.

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[M4RT1NJB]

>Shakey footage will be shakey no matter what you do to it. Sort of >like out-of-focus footage -- it's blurry when you shoot, it'll be blurry >when you work with it.
>There is one possibility though. Commotion Pro will allow you >stabilize the footage to an extent (depending on how shakey the >footage is). It's still going to look funky, i.e. wrap-around edges, >camera blur, etc.

Thanks, I'll look into it. Fortunately there is no motion blur, because the shots were taken out of doors with a high shutter speed.

Martin

[olePigeon]

If you wanna cough up $3400, you can get an Avid setup and that'll do it.

[bizzare]

if you have FCP, you can do in that too. you have more control than Commotion Pro also.

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[osiris]

I believe Adobe After Effects has a motion stabilizer plug-in as well.

[M4RT1NJB]

Cool, so what you're telling me is that nearly every piece of DV software has motion stabilisation available. I've been playing with the commotion 3.0 pro demo, and without instructions I haven't quite got it doing what I want yet, I'm working on it.

Thanks for the suggestions..

Martin

[doug young]

Don't forget in future that a camera (canon or Sony) with OPTICAL image stabilisation built in can make quite agood job of this.
If you can manage to film from behind or inside a car/tree/building etc, that would also help.

I guess all this may be a little late though, if you already have your footage.

Motion tracking software costs �$$�$�$�$�$�$� and demos probably won't export, Good Luck.

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[This message has been edited by doug young (edited 02-20-2001).]

Most filming classes will tell you it's best to get good footage to start with. "fix it in post-process" is not a viable option, one of my prof's use to say, then i showed him my roto-scoped lightsaber effect, and he shut up :-D