From the course: Motion 5.3 Essential Training

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Stabilizing footage

Stabilizing footage

- [Instructor] We've all been there before. You've gone out and shot a bunch of beautiful footage and then you realize the one clip you need to use is the one that has the absolute shakiest camera. So in this video, we're going to go ahead and look at how we can fix some of those shaky camera issues. If we check out our project by pressing the play button, you can see I've got this clip of a person that's installing some solar panels, and here, I'll just pause this and make sure that I change the magnification to fit so you can see the entire clip. So you can see, I just want to use the first couple seconds of this clip but since he was moving from an upper area to a lower area by looking at how things have been installed, the camera kind of got a little bit shaky as we were setting things up by trying to keep him in the center of the scene. So to stabilize this, the first thing I'll do is go to my layers panel here, and click on the video clip itself. Then I'm going to press F6 to…

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