Those are really long clips for anybody to try to stabilize, start to finish. You’ll notice in Figure 5 that these two clips are very long-nearly 11 minutes and 26 minutes long, respectively. Comparing Mercalli and Built-in NLE Stabilizationīack to our cycling footage. I wanted everything to stay rock steady in this shot, so I decided to throw the plug-in at it and see what it could do. I felt like this snake did such a great job posing for me and staying still that I wanted it to be perfect. It’s a very steady clip already, except you'll notice there's just a little bit of a camera movement to it. I did get a pretty cool shot of this snake at the waterfall and I just couldn’t pass up getting this clip. If you don’t like snakes, don’t watch this one. The final clip-trigger warning-has a snake in it ( preview here). There was really no way for me to avoid that, so the best thing I could do was shoot it as steady as I could, and then try to fix it later. You can see on the edges of the frames how the camera is just constantly bouncing around. The new few clips are all of a waterfall ( see the preview) that I shot from a wooden platform where there was a lot of foot traffic, and it caused a lot of vibration and shaking in the tripod. It has a lot more harsh vibration in it, so it’s going to provide more of a challenge for Mercalli. The second clip, as you can see in the preview, is essentially more of the same, but it’s got a different quality to it. That effect comes from the shutter speed of the GoPro. Mercalli calls it the rolling shutter skew, but in the clip you can see every once in a while that some of his frame, his legs, and the tires deform in an unnatural way. You’ll also notice that, as another rider comes into the frame, you get a little bit of the familiar, Jell-O rolling shutter effect. Plus, the rocking back and forth from his peddling makes a big difference too.įigure 5. You can see in the clip that the road vibration is transferring all the way up into the lens, making it pretty bouncy. The first one is not too bad, because he's not going too quickly. You can see me preview the footage at the 1:44 mark in the tutorial video. He gave me some really terrible bouncy footage to play with. The top two clips shown in Figure 5 (below) are some POV cycling footage I got from a good friend of mine, Rob Gillen, who went on a ride a couple of years back with some friends and a GoPro.
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