First of all, it is worth understanding that the highest quality material is well-shot material. Before you start stabilizing your footage, you should know what causes shaky video and how to get rid of it. With all of this information in mind, you are ready to jump into stabilizing video.
Stabilizing videos in Premiere Pro can help you create smoother, more professional-looking clips that won’t leave your audience feeling dizzy from all the motion.
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Stabilize video in Premiere Pro: Step-by-step guide
Step1: Apply the plugin «Warp Stabilizer»
To stabilize video in Premiere Pro we have a video sequence on the timeline, the frames of which need to be stabilized. For this, we will use the plugin «Warp Stabilizer». It is located in the window «Effects» – folder «Video Effects» – subfolder «Distort» (or use a quick search).
Move the plug-in to the frame we want to stabilize.
Step 2: Automatic frame analysis and stabilization
When you apply the plugin on a frame, it will start automatically analyzing the video. Once complete, the plugin will be applied and the video will move more smoothly. All settings will be applied by default, but they will not always work correctly.
Therefore, if after applying stabilization your image has become better, congratulations! Great work! You managed to stabilize video in Premiere Pro.
If not, then we move on and perform additional settings so that the stabilization works correctly.
Step 3: Perform a number of additional settings
To perform more detailed video stabilization in Premiere Pro move through the settings from top to bottom.
Warp Stabilizer in Stabilization Result has two parameters: Smooth Motion (by default) and No Motion.
Smooth Motion – the image moves the same as in your frame, but more smoothly.
No Motion – the image does not move, creating the effect of a static frame.
To fine-tune applied stabilization, you need to pay attention to several parameters.
The first – Smoothness percentage. It is responsible for the smoothness applied by the stabilization. The higher the percentage, the smoother the video will look, where zero is the absence of smoothness (the picture acquires its original appearance); from 1 to 1000 – how smoothly the picture should move.
By default, the plugin uses 50%, which in most cases is quite enough for good, smooth stabilization video in Premiere Pro.
Next comes the method by which stabilization takes place. There are four of them:
Position – stabilization is based on position data only. It is the most basic way footage can be stabilized.
Position, scale, and rotation – stabilization is based upon position, scale, and rotation data. It is the most basic way footage can be stabilized too.
Perspective – a type of stabilization where the entire frame is corner-pinned.
Subspace Warp – complex process where warp various parts of the frame differently to stabilize the entire frame (is used by default).
Then you can tweak framing, namely choose whether your image will be cropped and enlarged.
Stabilize Only – only stabilization video without crop and scale image.
Stabilize, Crop – video stabilize with crop, but without scale image.
Stabilize, Crop, Auto-scale – stabilization video with crop and scale image.
Stabilize, Synthesize Edges – video stabilize and fills the empty black space from the moving edges from frames earlier or later in the clip.
And the last parameter that you should know is the «Detailed analysis» that is in the category «Advanced». Applying a detailed analysis, the stabilizer is instructed to process the frame in even more detail to make the video more stable. After adjusting all parameters, your video will move much smoother. And this is exactly what we were trying to achieve! Excellent work! You professionally managed to stabilize video in Premiere Pro.
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