Camera Shake

[fredfillis]

I've got mountains of home video which is perfectly reasonable to watch at normal playback speeds. I want to take a few scenes and speed it up and insert into some home movies I'm planning to make. Problem is, camera shake is VERY nasty when sped up.

I found a program called SteadyHand http://www.goodervideo.com/products/SH.html which seems like it might be helpful.

Does anyone have any experience with that program or have any other suggestions?

I'm pretty sure I would only use it on clips I intend to play back fast.

[guns1inger]

I have used the plugin for virtualdub with some success, however there is a common issue with all stabilisers, and the virtualdub plugin is no exception. In order to stabilise the image, points are tracked and their motion analysed. The image is then shifted in the frame so that these points remain in a fairly constant position. The result can be large border areas with no image in place. If the movement is subtle, then these can be small enough to be hidden by the overscan of a normal TV. If the movement is extreme, then the only solution is to then zoom in on the stabilised image to fill the screen again, giving you a softer image. While all of the programs have various options to fill the borders, none of them any good.

[ssalim]

Sorry to hijack,

What if I want to make the movie in slow(er) motion, so that camera shake is not that noticable.

[guns1inger]

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=303037

[fredfillis]

I have used the plugin for virtualdub with some success

Now that is a great tip! I'll check it out.

Is this it? Steady De-Interlace

I might have a bit too much shake to be successful with the clips I have, maybe I'll have to cut out some of the worst bits. Given what I'm trying to do here, my guess would be it is better to "process" the clip in regular speed and then speed up afterwards.

[liquid217]

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=303037

Concerning that link, MVTools (the plugin for avisynth) can also be used, not only for a slowmotion effect, but also for stabilization.

source=avisource("d:\videofile.avi").tdeint()

vectors = source.MVAnalyse(isb = false)
globalmotion = source.MVDepan(vectors, pixaspect=1.094, thSCD1=400)
DepanStabilize(source, data=globalmotion, cutoff=2.0, pixaspect=1.094)

the tdeint() is a deinterlacing plugin that i use.

Option2
With that said, you should definitely check out DeShaker for virtualdub. It is much easier to use since it has a nice pretty GUI(although you do need to create the temporary pass file, which can be a little irritating).
http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/articles/deshaker_guide.htm