How to: Smooth moves from shakey footage! (Warp Stabilizer tutorial)
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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In this video Sam goes over how to get really cinematic and dynamic camera moves without having to use equipment. He goes through what to look out for and how to shoot, with the idea of using Warp stabilizer in mind. There are several examples showcasing the different scenarios or issues you may run in to. To finish the video he talks about the settings and which ones are most ideal for a typical video. Hope you enjoy! Now go make movies!
Valuable info here. -N
Also note: Having a lot of RAM will speed this part up. Like 32 gigs+
I don't have a slider, so for my latest video I put my DSLR on a toy truck and pushed it across the table; after applying warp to it, it seriously looks like a high quality slider or dolly. Such a powerful film tool.
Yeah, you guys can thank Wren for making all these videos possible. Main channel vids take so much of our time that we wouldn't be able to do this without his help. -N
If you're going for a much truer "film look", then yes, bumping up the shutter speed will make it seem "choppier". However, if a you're shooting a VFX shot that needs it, then it needs it. It's better to get a more solid track than a jumpy track because you there was too much blur to begin with. As for plugins, look at ReelSmart Motion Blur from RE:VisionFX. It analyzes each frame and calculates motion blur based on pixel-movement. We use it all the time in our main videos!! Super sweet.
I don't think you guys realize how helpful you have been for aspiring film makers. Thank you so much!
It's cool to know how movies are made!
I'm watching this and don't even... wait, what am I talking about I made this!
L.M.A.O why doesn't this have any likes
Thank you for your hard work and contribution to the filming community.
Sometimes. You have to experiment, but if your camera move was relatively steady to begin with, sometimes you can get better results by tracking after stbilization.
The value of evergreen content - discovered Corridor at the end of 2021, bought a camera over Christmas, now in 2022 I'm learning from your tutorials released 9 years ago... love the channel!
We thought it'd be overkill at first, but it's really very creatively liberating to be working with a camera that doesn't limit us any more. 4k footage comes in handy when we need to crop in, and the footage is super flexible in color grading, so it's easy to fix our mistakes.
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Great video, but it would be super cool if you could go a little more in depth on the second part of the video when you were explaining the masking and pre-composing process.
Please! I need this
This would be really helpful indeed!
This is a FANTASTIC video. I did not even realize I could use warp stabilizer for this. In fact, I didn't even realize I had this tool readily available to me. Thank you! I'm so excited to put this into practice!
7:09 you can see niko smiling in the background
The masking trick was a huge help. The tracking was the only thing throwing off my footage from being stabilized correctly. Thanks alot!
That was an amazingly composed video. Very helpful and the examples given were great. I said "Oh, that's what that does" to myself a lot watching this.
Freddiew produces nice short scenes that are good for a laugh or two.
but CorridorDigital produce amazingly creative content that can be seen hundreds of times.
Brush with Death, anyone?
Kittens on the beat? Dubstep guns? It seems that your ideas are so innovative and never, ever, stop.
You deserve mores ubscribers and have inspired noobs like to remain passionate about VFX.
Thank you, sincerely, for being such an inspiration.
May the lens of eternal happiness find your cameras.
181,601 ppl have been SCHOOLED lol... Dude knows his stuff. Thanks for posting!
+Brandon Elliot Smith You've also been schooled :D
Remy Xu I actually knew all of this already. This was a refresher course 😉 lol
Probably the most useful tutorial video yet.
thanks for the timely tutorial sam! being playing around with warp stabiliser & now it makes more sense. cheers!
It's a red scarlet camera with several attachments that connect directly to the body. For a DSLR you'll need a rig system that you mount to the screw on the bottom of the camera (or to a quick release plate that secures to the rig). Some basic rigs are shoulder, DSLR cage, and handheld. For good quality low cost rigs check out Jag35. For "on the cheap" you can look into Opteka.
You probably have to deal with a lot of rolling shutter artifacts, where a strobe only fills up half a frame, and the other is dark. The best solution is to shoot with CCD cameras that have global shutters, but in your situation you might be limited when it comes to stabilizing your footage in post.
Great info. In fact, this is the first tutorial I've seen that talks about stabilizing from shooting until the software part (shame on me, I know). Especially the part about the shutter speed! Thanks!
how do you use the mask to pre compose and stabilize only the part you want stabilized?
busterthecocker I'm also wondering about this.
busterthecocker I think it´s precomposing your footage with a mask, then let the warp stabilizer analyse/stabilize this precomposition, after that delete the mask. Warp stabilizer will not analyse again unless you tell him. I tried that, still tracking points appear in the mask area but maybe they don´t have an effect as they are in a neutral color area??
Did anyone else see at the end when Niko was "sleeping" he started to smile. :) Btw great vid!
JESUS CHRIST!!! thank you man, I been looking for a good stabilizing vid for two days!!! this is the best by far!! *subscribed*
CorridorDigital creating quality content for us once again. Thank you!
Now this is why I like CorridorDigital.. tutorials!!
I love you guys!
You're still so down to earth and seem to care about your viewers :)
Thank you
Thanks guys! Appreciate the explanation of the settings. Using this in a few shots to emphasis the badass-ness of the antagonist, while keeping our protag a lil bit shaky. Worked perfectly, even the slight warp as it added a bit of unease.
Yes!!!!!!!! It seems like later in the evening too. It always happens to me! ITs so annoying
7:09 Nike is sooooo smiling. Thanks for the tutorial, I've been experimenting with motion stabilization but now I know what everything does.
That's awesome how you guys use CS6! I've been using it in my high school class and I love it. Thank for helping me out with the stabilizer!
Thank you Sam!!! I really appreciate everything you guys teach us!!!
I have been waiting for this tutorial for a long time.
As someone whose going into the film industry, this helps a lot.
What a fantastic tutorial! I hope you keep doing these in the same fashion, especially with visual examples!
I would even like examples for failures and BAD things to do. like, when you said to stay with 100%-120%, show a 150% shot to see why it isn't a good idea!
Love these, thanks!
It's likely getting blurry because of how much it has to crop in the footage. If you just apply 2% or 3% smoothness, it can really take the edge off of hard vibrations wihtout cropping in much. Also, we can scale up a bunch with 4k footage from the RED. It's luxury, I tells ya! -N
This is the greatest video you have ever made. Thank you good sirs, thank you.
Hey i just want to say , and i speak for everybody , thank you for all this awesome tuts ! I love your videos, i can watch hours hours of your videos ! Really thank you and please make much more!
It's possible that it's green/blue screen. Another possibility is that the have a huge platform rig where it crabs at the side of the forest WITH a threadmill for downey to run on, with the camera on the huge rig itself. But a chroma key method saves much more money and time. Either that or they used a stabilizer arm (advanced arm to the gopro stick) that attached to Downey's hips.
thank you so much, i have been looking for a good stabilization tutorial
That was absolutely awesome. Great work guys!
Supremely helpful, guys. Thanks for taking the time to share this. Cheers~!
Thank you guys too for putting out such AWESOME content
OMG Brush with Death is KILLER!! awesome video!
What kind of footage are you editing (what codec)? We have an SSD for our operating system/programs, and a regular HDD for projects. The bottleneck might actually be CPU if it's hitting 80%, though frequently HDDs are indeed the culprit of slow footage.
Also, If you want, You can tape your small camera to a large heavy object and hold it while filming to reduce small shake.
Thanks Wren, this tip and the video are extremely helpful !
I believe you can replicate that effect by using the basic corner pin tracker built into after effects. Place the tracker over the persons head (or whatever object) then instead of track, choose 'stabilize'. It should stabilize the footage on his head while the background still moves. Obviously there are better programs for this, but I believe this method will work. Cheers.
Just wanted to say thanks for making this video. I learned a lot!
What was the video we showed?
How is it possible to people dislike this video, internet is such a picky place.
I love these tutorials, you guys are awesome.
Quick point - I'm pretty sure that masking to avoid "random objects" only works in CS6. In CS5.5 it tends to treat the mask as a shape to be tracked.
Because they use a Red Camera, which shoots video at a resolution WAY bigger than 1920x1080, they don't really need a flycam, because stabilizing won't degrade their footage. For the rest of us shmoes though that can only shoot at true HD, you're absolutely right, a steady cam really helps.
Best tutorial by far, never thought 💭 of shutter speed, so in a regular 1080p 24fps you recommend 1/200 shutter speed?
Damn I don't even study film and I found this pretty interesting! Great work guys!
I'm watching this and think that Sam and Niko are the coolest guys ever! :D
Hammocks do that.
Yes it is! And you make it easy to understand and follow, so thank you :D Keep making your amazing videos!
Amazing video! high quality stuff
Love the Berlinale mug!
Google "voodoo camera tracker"
Loving the Evike logo in the top of the frame at 4:37 - props! (in more than one way! :D)
Thanks so much!
I'm probably never going to use this, or even the editing software - yet I still watch!?
This tutorial is amazing. Very clear, easy to understand. Thanks!
great tutorial: you presented it, showed the settings and explained them well, love those little "basic" things that can change a lot!
could you show us a good color correction tutorial what to do in which scenario? would be great!
Yeah, that's true but it mostly depends on your work style. I've used and I'm still using both FCPX and Premiere Pro but the first one makes things faster and easier. If I have to work on many visual FX Premiere is better because of its integration with the other CS6 programs like AE.
Whoa, that was trippy. I had a dream last night that there was a convention and you guys knew me and took me there and you had a panel. How did that SXSW vid get to my head?
i dont know if it has a name, but you just have to stabilize the footage in after effects (choose rotation & scale) and track both eyes as an example. you also find that effect in guy ritchie´s rocknrolla
Great info here. Thanks Sam.
This tutorial just saved my shot Thank you
cool i love both of you guys videos. keep up the good work!
at 6:52 I didn't know that was possible and that is very effective to use. I may have to try this
Genuinely helpful, I'm going to tell all of my college buddies about this! :-)
I'm watching this and its really informative.
Yes, you're right. its HD 720p at 1280X720 or HD 1080p at 1920x1080 (which is 1.9K).. my bad. But the question remains. I heard the RED scarlet films at 4K which (i'm guessing) allows for zooming/ stabilizing without any (noticeable) quality loss.
Thanks for the tutorial!
I love watching tuts from you guys!
I hope you will be making more soon!
thanks guys, this was SOOOO helpful!
I gotta say I really loved you tutorial. Will try it out soon. Very entertaining and interesting. You're definitely in my top 5. I gave you a sub. Keep up the good work!
Awesome! Thanks for this I'm going to try it right now.
Such a helpful video, thanks guys!
try it and see if you like the result. you may want to pre comp it then correct for the fish eye first and see if that gives it better stabilization.
you are brilliant... exactly what i need to learn!
Your guy's tips have done me loads! I film promo videos for Blank Skateboarding I am good but not great cuz I didn't know allot of these tricks (Never went to school but I have always loved filming) I am going to start making shorts one of these days and use your tips PS I love your videos and I also airsoft! :D
Thank you very much. wasn't sure where to start.
AH! Thank you Sam! I've been trying to truly figure out how to really utilize warp stabilizer and you just set out some very very VERY useful info. THANK YOU SO MUCH! :)
P.S. The masking tip, ohmygodthemaskingtip.
OMFG THANK YOU SO MUCH SAM!!
they filmed the footage, then camera tracked his head, and used the data to stabilise the footage. But they stabilised it around his head, so his head was stationary and everything else appeared to be moving around it. hope that helps!
thats awesome! You're a lucky man!
Can't wait to see your new content! :)
They all work together in the same building so i think of them all as amazing filmmakers
Love the end with Niko trying not laugh his ass off.
this absolutely rocked my world! thank you so much for this video! this changes everything! :O
Added to my UA-cam Filmmaking School Playlist
Glidecam with warp stabilizer is AMAZING!
Do you have any video reference ? I'll gladly answer but I don't know this movie.
thanks for the advise on flares!