Can you stabilize "shaky camera" footage?

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:36 am

I was watching some of my older anime titles last night and I noticed that with many scenes the camera shakes or shifts quite noticeably from side to side. It's small but very visable especially when focusing your attention to the edges of the screen. It was like they took a picture of each frame with a handheld, but more likely it's a misalignment of the cels.

Anyway, I was wondering if there was a plug-in effect or technique (either in Premiere, Final Cut, etc., or After Effects) which can help to "stabilze" jerky footage like that ~ if that's even possible.

Thanks for your help.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:12 pm

http://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm
Here is a plugin for virtualdub. There is also an implementation for avisynth which I think is supposed to be better, but I don't quite have time to look around for it right now.

After Effects can stabilize motion, but its designed for a single scene, not an entire video.

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:17 pm

That would be cool if there was an avisynth plugin. I'd love to try that on some captured anime clips to see if it actually works. No hurry, but if you ever do find it, let me know.

Thanks for posting the link for DeShaker, I might play around with that too.

I also thought there was a "stabalize motion" function or plug-in for After Effects. Maybe when I go back and study the software again, I might come across it.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:11 pm

I'm sure that's pretty hard to do.