Fix Jittering from Recording Problem

[kolbep]

Good Day.
I have a Canon ZR100 Minidv Camera.
On the day that I needed to shoot a Family Day, the transport packed up on the camera.

As a last resort, I hooked the composite out of the camera into my LG DVD/HDD recorder, and recorded directly onto the HDD.

The signal that recorded has rolled over Vertically, So that the Blanks are Visible, and also there is a lot of jittering.

As I am going to edit this (and my other camera footage) into 16 x 9, I can crop out the video so that the blanking is not visible, but I am stuck with the Jittering.

I tried the online example of using VirtualDub with Deshaker plugin, but I can still see some of the Jittering in the middle of the picture area.

I have uploaded my original, and Deshakered video here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sreLGk8rmSg

Please could somebody help me, and let me know if there is any other deshaker settings I should use, or if I can use another method.

I am going to edit in Sony Vegas.

Thanks
Peter

[lordsmurf]

Define what you mean by "jitter"

For some reason, your Youtube video isn't playing for me.

[kolbep]

Sorry, I do not know the jargon,
but the picture basically moves up by 1 line for a couple of frames, then moves back down.
It seems to be a random jumping (Not a recogniseable pattern), but it continues the whole time. It looks sort of like when the older t.v.'s Vertical sync wasn't dialled in properly.


U tube plays for me. That is a strange one ....
Peter

[kolbep]

Please Help

[filmboss80]

Good Day.
...I hooked the composite out of the camera into my LG DVD/HDD recorder, and recorded directly onto the HDD.

The jitter is likely coming from the analog composite transfer from the camera. That is not an optimal capture method at all. Do a bit-to-bit, exact digital transfer from miniDV to DV-AVI via firewire connection between the camcorder and the PC on which you will be doing your Vegas edits.

[jagabo]

Deshaker worked pretty well for me. Starting with the 480p Youtube video I cropped away the edges of the frame, and used Deshaker at its defaults, except I set Scale to Full, and turned off Rotation and Zoom detection. During the second pass I cropped a little more off the top and bottom to get rid of the shaking borders. Xvid AVI attached.

[kolbep]

Wow.

Thanks for that.
I have been fighting with this the whold night and day.

Let me give it a go on my source footage.

Thanks
P

[intracube]

This looks a bit like a PAL/NTSC incompatibility.

Is the camcorder an NTSC model? If it is, and the LG DVD/HDD recorder is PAL, and doesn't support NTSC recording - it might explain both the jittering and the offset/distortion to the video.