Sometimesa little bit of shake can be lovingly called an artistic choice, but more often than not, camera shake finds its way into your footage where you don't want it to be. Whether from improper stabilization or a slightly over-enthusiastic camera operator, sometimes footage is rendered a little too jarring, and you want to smooth it out a little bit.
Thankfully, Adobe Premiere Pro has some handy tools that will help you take the shake out of your footage in post-production and give you smooth, stabilized video instead of a headache-inducing earthquake.
There are a variety of reasons you might want to stabilize your video. Most of the time, it's due to unintended shakes during camera movements such as pans and tilts. This can be caused by stabilization equipment that is improperly calibrated or cheap tripod heads.
Also, Warp Stabilizer requires the program to crop in on your footage slightly, so you may notice some lost details on the edges of your frame. This is not usually a dealbreaker, but it's something to consider.
There are many great third-party plugins that allow you more control over how and how much you stabilize your images. Consider purchasing one of these if you would like more control over stabilization while still working inside Premiere Pro.
After Effects also has a warp stabilizer that is sometimes slightly more accurate than the one in Premiere, but you also have the option of using keyframes and motion tracking to manually stabilize your footage in After Effects. This takes more skill, but it can provide more precise results.
The best way to eliminate shake, of course, is to have less shake in the original footage. You can save yourself a ton of time in the editing room if you invest in proper stabilization equipment and learn how to use it. Here are some examples of stabilization equipment:
However, if you are working with shakier footage (because hey, most of the time, it isn't even you that shot it), hopefully, this guide will help you stabilize it in a snap so you can keep in your editing flow and produce a polished final product.
Shaky footage can destroy otherwise amazing shots. Fortunately, Adobe Premiere Pro has an incredibly simple and effective stabilizer available with the click of a button. This step-by-step Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial will go over everything you need to know about how to stabilize shaky footage in the Adobe Creative Cloud for all Mac and Windows devices.
The only way to really add the stabilization effect in Adobe Premiere Pro is through the Warp Stabilizer Effect. The warp stabilizer in premiere pro can be found by going inside of the Effects bin (located on the bottom left-hand side of the screen in the Edit Workspace). The Effects bin in Premiere Pro contains all of your high-end video effects and transitions.
Type stabilize into the search box inside of the effects bin to find the warp stabilizer effects. Double-clicking on this effect will add it to your selected video clip. You can also drag and drop the effect directly on top of your video footage to apply it.
Once the effect is added to your clip, Adobe Premiere Pro will automatically start analyzing it. A blue progress bar in the playback window will indicate how much time you have left on your stabilization.
The only other way to stabilize footage in Adobe Premiere Pro is in tandem with Adobe After Effects. Right-click on your footage inside of your timeline and click on Replace with After Effects composition.
Doing this will bring your footage into After Effects where the process of adding the warp stabilizer is quite similar to Premiere Pro. The available options are similar as well. While the differences are barely noticeable, the stabilizer tool in Adobe After Effects does do a slightly better job than Adobe Premiere Pro when it comes to stabilizing footage.
The first is to always make sure you record in a well-lit environment. Stabilization software is great but can be incredibly demanding under low-light conditions. Stabilization effects can often fall apart and get the jitters (that jello look) under these conditions.
Post-production video stabilization has come such a long way, saving creators countless hours and dollars on equipment such as a gimbal. In the right conditions, digital stabilization can look just as good if not better than physical stabilization. With content creation, the more time and money you can save the better.
When Adobe unveiled warp stabilizer just a few years ago, the possibilities were endless. No more buying multi-thousand dollar rigs. No more wasted time on set. You could very easily fix it in post. But then we actually tried warp stabilizer and the results were not amazing. In fact, they were quite the opposite.
As far as functionality goes, the After Effects plugin works in a very similar way to warp stabilizer, but with some added goodies. For starters ReelSteady has a built-in rolling shutter repair tool that works long side its built-in stabilizer.
The results from ReelSteady speak for themselves. It is an absolutely incredible tool that produces amazing results. Take this footage of this wing suit jump for example. Here is the footage before ReelSteady:
To get the full benefits of ReelSteady, you will want to record your footage at a larger resolution than your desired output. For example, you might want to record in 4.6K or 5K if you want to output your video to 4K. That way you have a little wiggle room for ReelSteady to do its thing.
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