after effects has a great built in stabilizer. Here's this video clip, shaky camera that you can find in the project files and I'm just looking at the first five seconds of it and you can see that it has that sort of handheld quality to it. Some people like that. But oftentimes I get a little bit annoyed with it. I'd rather have it to be a little bit more stable and smooth. If you want to stabilize video footage like this, just right, click the layer and choose or stabilizer. Vfx. This is the same type of warp stabilizer that's available in premiere pro So if you know that you'll know how this one works. Once you apply it, it's going to initialize and analyze the video clip that you've added. So the shorter the video clip, the better actually so that it doesn't have to analyze everything. And also you want a clip where the shot is relatively the same. You don't want the camera to be panning around changing the shot within this exact same shot because it's analyzing everything. So it's ...

good if it's in one location and then once it does that it will actually go through each frame and stabilize. And if you don't want it to have to actually stabilize everything. What I definitely recommend is trimming in to your comp work area. So if I cancel this the night reanalyze, you'll see that it's only going to stabilize frames one through 27. So you can see it's kind of shaky right here and then let's see what happens after this stabilizes. You'll see the orange bar stabilizing. Now, if we play this through, look at that smooth buttery, I love it. You get rid of those little hand jitters that you get when you're shooting handheld, you can control the amount of smoothing and stabilizing through this smoothness percentage. It automatically sets the settings to what typically works best with the warp stabilizer. The result is smooth motion and not no motion if you want absolutely no motion. Sometimes it can be done. It depends on the clip like this one is pretty good. See look at no motion at all and what's happening is it's actually sort of warping the image. It's rotating it, it's changing the position, it's scaling it so that there is no motion. Let me just show you what happens when I change the method from subspace warp to position, scale and rotation. And then I changed the framing to stabilize only. So this is actually what's happening. You can see that the frame, your video composition is actually moving around, it's rotating. See look how it's rotating around so what it needs to do or what this effect does is it scales it, it crops it if necessary and so you will be punching in a little bit on the clip, meaning you will zoom in a little bit more. But the result is you get this more stable. Look if the no motion doesn't work for you or even if the smooth motion looks a little bit wonky because sometimes depending on how much camera shake there is, it can look a little bit digital, you can decrease the smoothness and that will make it a little bit less stable but better than having something that looks sort of distorted and then just play around If sub space warp doesn't work for you, try these other ones. Typically this is going to be the best option though to do an even better job, click under the advance and do detailed analysis and we'll go through all the frames with more detail and try to stabilize it even better. But usually without this it does a decent job. But even without this it does a decent job. So that's the stabilizer right within after effects.

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Stabilize Shaky Footage

Stabilize Shaky Footage

Lesson Info

28. Stabilize Shaky Footage

Lessons

Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

Understand the After Effects Workspace

Starting a New Composition

CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

Using the Basic After Effects Tools

Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors

Working in the Timeline

Layer Properties

Quiz: After Effects Basics

Animating in After Effects

Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

Using the Graph Editor

Challenge - Bouncing Ball

Solution - Bouncing Ball

Quiz: Animating with Keyframes

Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects

Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths

Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients

Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers

Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear

Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers

Easily Reverse Complicated Animations

Playing with Time

Blend Modes

Stabilize Shaky Footage

CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts

CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time

CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates

Quiz: Important After Effects Skills

Intro to Motion Graphics Projects

Clean Lower Third

Logo Reveal Animation Bumper

Colorful Transition

Text with Mask Path Animation

Text Bubble Animation

Weather App 1

Weather App 2

Weather App 3

Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects

Flat Animation Challenge

Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene

Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect

Removing Green Screen Background

Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground

Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool

Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect

Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge

Intro to 3D

Swinging 3D Text Animation

Build Out Your 3D Composition

Animating Our 3D Scene

Create Stars in After Effects

Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

Using the Rotoscope Tool

Cleaning Up Your Edges

Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation

Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

Easy Screen Replacement with Masks

Replacing a Screen Version 2

Screen Replacement with Mocha

CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin

Quiz: Rotoscoping

Using the Puppet Pin Tool

Animating Your Puppet Pins

Animated Blinking Eyes

Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds

CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool

Quiz: Screen Replacements

Applying Text Animation Presets

Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn