Thu May 31, 2018 3:22 pm
It's like you said, the GoPro has a bunch of very precise sensor data that is calibrated for that model of camera. So it can tie every movement to a specific frame of footage and make the appropriate compensations based on what the camera actually experiences. Whereas Resolve (and other NLEs) can only compare pixels and guess, "Is this pixel changing because of camera movement or natural movement in the scene?"
When you think about it, stabilizing in post is kind of miraculous in its own way.
The only two ways I can see post-processing being competitive is for cameras to publish the stabilization metadata, and having NLEs that can use that data. Or using AI to better interpret the footage without additional metadata.
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