The movement was created with the effect ‘Transform’, which allows you to enable or disable motion blur on the camera movement. Enabling this, makes the handheld movement more realistic on your footage. Included is a normal and a long version. Use the normal version on short clips up to 45 seconds. Today we are going to see how we can recreate the movements of a handheld shaky camera inside adobe premiere and adobe after effects. Creating a camera shake is possible both using built-in tools inside after effects and also with available plugins which we are going to use the one created by Red Giant. Using Wiggle in After Effects. Here are some free Deadpool handheld camera presets from Jarle Leirpoll. It seems David Fincher’s choice to cut Gone Girl on Premiere Pro may have been the key influencing factor for both the Coen Brothers and Deadpool director Tim Miller’s choice in NLE this time around.
Although the FlyCam HD-3000 24” Handheld Stabilizer bears a striking resemblance to the Neewer 24” Handheld Stabilizer, there are a couple of important differences. This is a higher-quality gimbal, and it features an adjustable three-axis plate that allows you to adjust the pan and tilt without ever having to touch the camera. 8 fake handheld camera movement presets for Adobe Premiere Pro. Created using real handheld motion, this free video pack gives your videos more dynamic.
This Warp Stabilizer hack from AdobeMasters makes it easy to fake a handheld look.
We’ve all been there: after days of work in the editing bay, your project is nearly perfect. You’ve locked your picture and mixed your audio. From hundreds of archival clips, you’ve gathered the essential ore and forged it together.
After careful honing and polishing, your sequence is now practically a katana of visual storytelling. But right before you export, a pang of doubt makes you pause. Does that locked-off clip clash with the handheld footage next to it?
Ok, this might not be a universal experience, but if you’ve ever had to work with stock footage or archival clips, you know it can be tough to make everything look consistent. Savvy color grading helps, but a static tripod shot in the middle of a shaky handheld sequence often sticks out like a sore thumb.
Another way to make them look more consistent is to add camera shake in post. We’ve shown you how to add camera shake to clips with the After Effects wiggle expression, a while back, but AdobeMasters shows how to get the same look directly in Premiere with Warp Stabilizer. See the rest at NoFilmSchool.com.
Sliders, dollies and (particularly) handheld gimbals are increasingly affordable and popular ways to get silky-smooth tracking and handheld shots in an array of situations. However, whether you use fancy on-camera stabilization equipment or not, it’s rare that every shot comes out as effortlessly. Fortunately, digital stabilization has come a long way recently too and Premiere Pro is here to help with its brilliant Warp Stabilizer effect!
What is the Warp Stabilizer?
In the past, to stabilize a shot in post-production, you’d need to spend time motion tracking a shot in a package like After Effects then use your tracking data to apply position, scale and rotation effects to negate the camera’s motion. This was a very manual process and took a lot of time to tweak each shot.
Now, the Warp Stabilizer can do this for you much faster and produce better results. The effect analyzes the motion in a given shot, applies the necessary movement effects to the clip and will also dynamically skew your image to cover up any super serious wobble. Simply put: it’s a massive time saver that can make handheld shots look much smoother. Obviously, there’s only an extent to which digital stabilization can help a really shaky shot, so don’t think this will save you if you’re running around swinging the camera all over the place.
How do you stabilize your footage in Premiere Pro?
Using the Warp Stabilizer is easy. First, drop the effect on your clip in the timeline and Premiere will start interpreting your footage. Once this is complete, stabilization will be automatically applied to your clip with the effect’s default settings.
There are a few options you should pay attention to here:
- Result – here you can indicate “Smooth motion” or “No motion”. In most cases, you’ll want to choose “Smooth motion” – “No motion” is mainly useful for handheld shots that do not include deliberate camera movements.
- Smoothness – This is a percentage value that determines the strength of the effect with 100% being the strongest. By default, this sits at 50% but, as with most VFX, we find that less is more. Using smoothness of more than 20% on most handheld shots can create odd distortion. Unless this is what you’re after, we’d recommend starting lower and scaling up.
- Method – This lets you choose how the stabilization is applied. In most cases, Subspace Warp (dynamic stretching and position adjustments) will give the best results. However, you can choose only to use position, scale and rotation based stabilization or skewing instead.
- Framing – This dictates how stabilization looks once it has been applied. If you want to keep your video filling the frame, the default “Stabilize, Crop, Auto-scale” is the best choice. Premiere Pro will automatically increase the scale of your video slightly to ensure the frame is filled. (You can see by how much in the “Auto-scale” drop-down beneath “Framing”.) If you want to go for a different effect, test out the other Framing options.
It can take a powerful graphics card to play back a stabilized clip at the timeline’s native resolution without pre-rendering, so we’d recommend hitting “Enter” on your keyboard, with the timeline selected. This will create a preview of all the effects in your timeline, including your new stabilized video. If you don’t want to preview the other clips in your sequence, just edit the sequence’s in and out points temporarily.
Once you’ve created your preview, play your timeline and tweak the effect options to get the level of stabilization you want and you’ll be good to go!
Pro tips for stabilization in Premiere
“My stabilized video looks blurry”
This normally happens when there’s a lot of motion in a video and the smoothness is set to be too high. As you increase the smoothness, Premiere Pro warps the image a bit more and often scales up parts of the image to smooth motion. (Check the Auto-scale value in the effect settings.)
Depending on your source files, you may be able to get away with quite a lot of scaling (e.g. if you’re using a 4k file in a 1080p project). But, if your source files are the same size as your project, once the scale increases by more than about 10%, picture quality can degrade quite a lot. If this is happening, try turning down the smoothness to find a balance.
“It’s taking ages to preview all my stabilized clips and I need to get on with my edit”
If you need to stabilize a lot of clips, it can take a while for Premiere Pro to render previews. Our tip for getting the best out of the Warp Stabilizer is not to apply the effect until you’ve locked down your edit. This way, you’ll be working with a mostly complete timeline and be less likely to make edits that require the content to be rendered again.
“My video frame is a different resolution to my project resolution and I can’t apply the effect”
Premiere Pro can only stabilize footage where the source and sequence resolution match. If these don’t match (e.g. you’re using a 4k video in a 1080p sequence), however, all you need to do is nest your original file in a new sequence (Right click on the clip in the timeline -> Next…) and apply the Warp Stabilizer effect in this new sequence. Your changes will then show up your original sequence.
What’s next?
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That’s it! You have all the tools you need to get a great looking, stable clip. With your cut locked down and your sequence ready to go, all that’s left is to put your creation into the world. If you want some advice, check out our article on how to export video from Premiere Pro to get an inside look at what we do.
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If you have any questions, please do get in touch. Otherwise, happy editing!