Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:29 am
You will have to try the various stabilization modes to determine which one introduces the fewest number of artifacts in the image. I find sometimes the Classic Stabilizer works best (with Point Tracker), but the new tracker has surprised me on occasion and did a fine job right out of the box... sometimes. It does require trial & error to determine which will work best -- it is not a purely automatic function.
I just finished a 100-minute documentary feature last week, and one trick I had to resort to is, we occasionally had a series of long shots (say, 1 or 2-minutes) of continuous footage, and we sometimes had to break them down into shorter clips and just stabilize the short clips, because there isn't much you can do with a frantically moving camera going through a crowd or something. Once it stops on a person's face for an interview, then you can stabilize it, and if you do it carefully, you can make the transition imperceptible.
marc wielage, csi • VP/color & workflow • chroma | hollywood