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• That’s amazing! I checked out the video before I read the rest of the post, so it was pretty exciting to see DeShaker in action and then realize it’s a free plugin for a program I already use.

  Posted by Cameron on November 2nd, 2008 at 7:17 am

• I’ve been using Deshaker for well over a year now and have managed to get stunning results for some sequences – especially one shot from behind of my wife skiing, which went from unwatchable to hypnotic. However, I have just bought my first HD camera (Xacti HD1000) and find I get some odd results occasionally – a kind of wobbly shimmering effect in the stabilized video – should some of the settings be changed for HD ?

  Posted by Blewyn on November 10th, 2008 at 12:53 am

• Well, the Xacti has a rolling shutter, so Deshaker can fix some of the wobbles if you tell it that the footage was shot with a rolling shutter, but for the most part all you can do is make sure the shutter speed is set very high on the camera to minimize the amount of the wobbling. Pob lwc!

  Posted by Isaac Botkin on November 10th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

• It is my understanding that high shutter speeds in fact exacerbate rolling shutter artifacts, and that you should use a 180° or 360° shutter, so that motion blur hides some of the wobble/skew.

  Posted by Charles on March 21st, 2009 at 12:29 pm

• Unfortunately, motion blur only hides slight wobble of moving objects; if the camera is moving and the entire frame is warped, all motion blur will do is soften the edges of anything that’s warped. If you are trying to stabilize the footage, motion blur will confuse the tracker, and even if it does work you’ll get motion blur happeneing even on frames where the movement has been stabilized.

  Posted by Isaac Botkin on March 22nd, 2009 at 11:37 am

• I would like to get a result like your large image at the bottom. A very large frame that accommodates the widest and most vertically expansive view available cumulatively from a sequence of frames. I could then set VirtualDub to crop the borders as I saw fit. I like Deshaker plugin a lot but I often prefer eliminating the shake by converting to a fixed POV as opposed to smoothing the shake by going to a smooth pan.

  Can you tell me what settings you used to get the large image?

  Posted by Dan Miller on March 6th, 2010 at 6:16 pm

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