imovie stabilization and crop

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imovie stabilization and crop

iMovie 10.0.3, OS Maverics 10.9.3

There are some movies that need to be stabilized. I have consistently applied to all the movies the Stabilizing feature.The result was that several films were stabilized without cropping the image. That is, the image moves across the screen and I myself can cut it with the Crop feature (if i want).

At the same time, several films were stabilized with automatic cutoff frames. And There is no possibility to cancel the crop (or adjust manually), as the appropriate tool is unavailable (inactive). Cancel stabilization is the only way to remove trim.

The question is how to stabilize а video without automatic cropping frames? (if i want i will use the Crop feature manually).

There is another situation where this issue is relevant. There is a movie that consists of several episodes. Divide the movie for a few episodes and stabilize every episode. some scenes will be cropped do not automatically cut off, while others won’t.

Sorry for my English. It was translated with Google

many thanks in advance!

OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), imovie 10.0.3

Posted on May 26, 2014 1:03 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 16, 2015 3:47 PM in response to GeeD

If you use an uncut clip, iMovie "moves the window". If you cut the clip, like take something out from the end, iMovie will crop the video. This is quite annoying as I wanted to shave a few seconds from the ending of a clip but keep the moving window and it doesn't seem possible… ugh…

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Answer 2

GeeD

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May 26, 2014 1:56 AM in response to Community User

Stabilization has always crops video clips since it has to move each frame so that the background changes slowly rather than jerkily. You can change the amount of cropping manually by selecting Adjust, clicking the stabilization tool (camera icon) then using the slider to the right of "Stabilize Shaky Video". 0% gives no cropping (and no stabilization). Usual value is around 30%.

Geoff.

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Answer 3

GeeD

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May 26, 2014 3:20 AM in response to Community User

Interesting. I have only ever got cropped stabilized video, but I do remember another poster a long time ago complaining about getting what you actually want! I don't know how iMovie chooses what to do.

Geoff.

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Answer 4

GeeD

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Sep 16, 2015 3:59 PM in response to wHaTEvEr-

I'm interested why anyone wants to have wobbling black borders around their clip. I suppose its the only option if any cropping would remove some essential item like someone's head. For this reason I always try to make sure I have a margin around the subject when shooting video but I must admit I do sometimes forget. In such cases I perfer to forgo (or at least reduce) stabilisation. I have never got 'wobbling borders' even with clips which have not been trimmed.

Geoff.

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Answer 5

Sep 16, 2015 4:11 PM in response to GeeD

I'm doing one right now. It's not a movie, it's just 3mins of friends doing funny stuff, shot on an handheld phone so it's really shaky. Stabilisation crop only does something if I allow it to crop more than half the video… With the wobbly borders I get the full content and is very stable. Sometimes the borders woble a lot but the content stays aligned, within possibility. I think for this use case, having the choice of going with the wobbling is nice, I just wish it would be an option and not what seems like an edge case turned feature. 🙂

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Answer 6

May 26, 2014 2:16 AM in response to GeeD

No. Stabilization not always crops video.

Here is an example: http://youtu.be/nG19iI1Xt5o

The video was stabilizated and there is not any crops. The frame moving around people and key objects.

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Answer 7

GeeD

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May 26, 2014 2:22 AM in response to Community User

I don't think you can do this in iMovie. Most people would not want the video window to be moving around.

Geoff.

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Answer 8

May 26, 2014 3:10 AM in response to GeeD

I do this in iMovie 10. I select a video clip and I choose option stabilization. Sometimes I get the result of the above. sometimes (another clip) imovie crops the stabilizated video.

The question is how can I get the predictable result of stabilization? And no wonder that happen? static trimmed frames or frames moving around the key subjects?

While the above stabilization fits me better for some reasons.

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Answer 9

GeeD

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Sep 16, 2015 4:16 PM in response to wHaTEvEr-

Ah. The behaviour must be different on iMovie for iPhone. (I don't have one).

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Answer 10

Sep 16, 2015 4:17 PM in response to GeeD

I'm talking about iMovie OSX.

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