How the...
...do they do that? I say it's witchcraft.
Google has announced that it has acquired a Dublin firm "specialising in motion based manipulation of film and video" – with an eye to improving the quality of YouTube videos. Down at the YouTube blog, Google Video Technology big cheese Jeremy Doig says of the sometimes less than top-notch YouTube footage: "What if there was a …
There's been steadicam plugins for After Effects etc for donkeys years. I never liked them much in production work 'cos the zooming meant you lost resolution and ended up with a fuzzy looking picture, but that was back in the days of SD. I guess with HD to Youtube this isn't really an issue.
"There's been steadicam plugins for After Effects etc for donkeys years"
Yup, and for the free/opensource world, I've been using the VirtualDub plugin for years, well, since at least 2005 according to the metadata on my copy. Just Google deshaker.vdf and drop it in the plugin folder.
Had the same output as you though - namely that it's a neat trick, but no substitute for hard or soft steadicam techniques built into cameras.
yeh, nowt special. even imovie has it.
with HD, and uploading to youtube anyway, it makes sense to do it somewhere if you have shaky footage
Doesn't help much with rolling shutter stuff though (imovie, final cut, etc have different filters for that)
I suppose for your general unwashed phone uploading utube muppet, it could make their happy slapping more watchable....
what would be interesting is if it does any magic if the stuff has titles, etc on it - I would assume not... hence why you stablise BEFORE editing....