Hi,
I am doing a walkthrough of my school for new students and using a very rudimentary shoulder mount so needed to use stabilisation feature to help smooth out the bumps. Once I had stabilised and exported however, I realised it had done some very drastic cropping in many places.
Is there a way to avoid this? See before and after below at exact same point for example. Any help would be gratefully appreciated!
MacBook, OS X 10.11
I would say the stabilisation you have added is too aggressive due to too much camera movement.
You may have to adjust the settings to find the sweet spot of smoother looking footage and minimum cropping.
Al
All forms of electronic stabilisation cause cropping . . . it is basically how they work.
I am wondering whether you could get smoother footage by simply holding the camera in front of you and using your bent arms as shock absorbers.
Many of the items sold as camera supports are pretty useless gimmicks which often are less effective than simply holding the camera.
There are various settings in the Stabilization panel. Have you tried any of them? In my last project every clip seemed to be unique as for stabilization. If it's just a single short clip and the shaking is really bad, try doing manual stabilization using frame-by-frame cropping. Then do a FCP stabilization pass. This pre-processing might make it easier for the stabilization to work.
Thanks for the Helpful star!
Uh, I forgot one thing, though. If you do the frame-by-frame manual stabilization cropping (hopefully you won't need to!), you'll have to export and re-import the clip. Also, you can't use FCP stabilization on a compound clip.
Stabalisation Crops my footage?
