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Stabilize a shot

Stabilize a shot - Media Composer Tutorial

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Stabilize a shot

- [Man] Some of the segment effects in Media Composer are fairly straightforward. Throw them unto a clip and you can adjust the settings in the effect editor. Some of the effects, like the one we're going to look at now, preform some automatic analysis of your content and they use the output of that analysis to change the way the effect is configured. We've got a shot here that is okay, it's pretty good, but we have a little bit of camera shake in it. I'm going to click back to the start of the clip, just this one, around about 20 seconds in this stabilizer shot sequence. And have a look at the playback, watch this in the program monitor. Now it's okay, it's pretty good, it's quite short. But there is a little bit of camera movement and we're going to use the stabilizer effect to fix it up. So over in the project window, inside our effect palette, I'm going to click in and I'm going to start typing "stabilize." I don't need to type the whole word, it's going to come up right away. And…

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