Shaky hands? An alternative to YouTube's "jello" stabilizer for dive videos

[toozler]

As I can't travel around with a larger metal tray with handles, I've been using a short handgrip. Of course, results are shaky - even standing still.

Here is a sample stabilization with Kdenlive, a video editor for Ubuntu. It leaves some artifacts on the bottom of the image as it rotatates it to keep stable. Those can be cropped but I left them on this video to illustrate that.

[video=youtube;F3phfPyX3kE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3phfPyX3kE[/video]

Shutte angle on the vstab options was set to "6" - this apparently controls how much the image is allowed to rotate. Larger angles would make it stabler but generate more of the glich looking artifact on the bottom.

 

[crab4life]

I film in 60 fps and slow it down to 30 in editor and it works great!

 

[keller34]

Give VirtualDub and deshaker a try. It works wonders for me.

 

[emoreira]

Give VirtualDub and deshaker a try. It works wonders for me.

Hi, do you know of any tutorial available on how to use VirtualDub to stabilize a shaky video ?

 

[undrwater]

Kdenlive is for Linux in general but uses the qt-libs which is not a problem in and of itself. Some just don't like bringing in all of those dependencies when using gnome (gtk+).

I like kdenlive as a video editor, and you can't beat the price.

 

[emoreira]

Hi, do you know of any tutorial available on how to use VirtualDub to stabilize a shaky video ?

VirtualDub does not support mp4 format. This is what I get out of my Intova Sport HD. :depressed:

 

[keller34]

Yes it does. You just have to install the addon for it. I use it for my gopro

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VirtualDub: How to use mkv, mp4, flv, mov and other file formats with VirtualDubThe Don's Craptastic World

I hope this helps some. It is what i used to get it working. It is a 2 pass process and the link below will help you a ton as it did me.


http://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng1nQufskiU

http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/articles/deshaker_guide.htm

 

[haha49]

I use corel video studio ulitmate which has mercile filter which does stablization really well (it zooms basicly)

 

[toozler]

Kdenlive is for Linux in general but uses the qt-libs which is not a problem in and of itself. Some just don't like bringing in all of those dependencies when using gnome (gtk+).

I like kdenlive as a video editor, and you can't beat the price.

Installation on Ubuntu (and most likely any other Linux distribution) was a breeze. In older versions, it was a lot more work.

And yes, can't beat the price!