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[Mikael Alanko]

Here's my video about David Brown 50D restored by finnish guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9gLQqkbrWA

The video is shoot with Canon 550D and stabilized with Premiere CC. Some shivering can be noticed.
Feel free to give advise and feedback on how to get rid of the shivering at the end of the video and get it even more stabile.

[poisondeathray]

Here's my video about David Brown 50D restored by finnish guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9gLQqkbrWA

The video is shoot with Canon 550D and stabilized with Premiere CC. Some shivering can be noticed.
Feel free to give advise and feedback on how to get rid of the shivering at the end of the video and get it even more stabile.

Did you mean in post ?

This "shivering" occurs because of the shooting technique used and rolling shutter from the CMOS sensor of your camera. The software stabilization tries to align adjacent frames, but cannot do it perfectly because of the "jello" and blur from the rolling shutter. As a result you get this jarring in/out of focus effect despite stabilized/aligned frames.

If you improve the stabilization during the actual shoot (e.g. with a steadicam or similar device), the software stabilizer has less to do and can align the frames more easily which will yield less "going in and out of focus" blurry frames . Shooting with faster shutter speeds and higher framerates will also help because of less blur and faster sensor readout, thus less "jello". (But the 720p50/60 version on that camera is terrible for aliasing artifacts) . You can add more motion blur in post if you want to, but the reverse isn't possible - you can't remove motion blur for a sharper picture very effectively. Non motion blurred frames are always easier to work with in post, than natual motion blurred pictures

In post , yes it's possible to improve it farther, but only with more advanced techniques and more manual work. There are no 1 click solutions that will work well. You can interpolate over "bad" frames with optical flow methods like twixtor. A free way is though avisynth and mvtools2. Basically you interpolate between 2 or more "good" frames used as "reference points", and replace over the "bad" frames in the middle. This implies manual identification and specifying which frames to replace. It's not "automatic" like warp stabilizer or other software stabilizing methods. Nor are they "perfect" ; they can generate artifacts which require more manual work and masking to "fix" which can involve motion tracking, patch repairs, even more advanced techniques .