Tutorial: Auto smooth your jerky footage in After Effects

Using 2d3's (creator of boujou) SteadyMove Pro Adobe After Effects plug-in, I demonstrate how to use the plug-in and show examples of what it does. It takes your shaky, jerky, jolty footage and stabilizes it to look like you filmed it with a steady cam.

If you want to try it out, you can download a demo version from 2d3's site. The demo version puts a large logo across the middle of the video, but you can play with it and determine if it's worth the money for yourself.

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[chikotube]

did i see that correctly? Maximum correction is keyframe-able? so like if some point in my film, the motion correction is cropping too much, i can just use keyframes to back-off of critical points?

[nuclearspike]

yes, both Max Correct and Smooth % are key frame-able. When I rewatch this tutorial, I've thought about how I should have mentioned that briefly (since it's probably not going to be a very common need), good catch.

[chikotube]

i saw another demo, probably with the same plugin, where there was a jerky video of some valley surrounded by mountains. When they stabilized it, the peaks got cut off from too much cropping. Good to know about keyframing the crop level.

[nuclearspike]

I believe you are referring to one of my examples that is posted as a video response. When shooting footage that you plan to later smooth, zoom out a little to give the plugin some room to play.

[sk8erboi7072]

i cant find steadymove pro on the website

[moeloehoe]

i like your tutorial.^^ where were you 5 years before man^^?

well anyway keep the good things up

[AbartsWorld]

jerky footage lol

[TheBlanco951]

how can i get a hold of the plugin? i wen t to the website and couldnt find anything that had to do with a plugin.

[LittleFX1]

is this CS4? Or CS5?

[MannYgfx]

gotta hit this up. thanks for the vid man, now i know what to get! and yea, thought you would like this.

[leonidhaimov]

I've got a problem, it shows many errors on the rendering

[nuclearspike]

@thevfxbro Like what?

[Arjun007ize]

Oh man nice vedio ...great, keep it up, Subscribed.

[flappy321]

@davidleamanmiller piratebay :P

[WWoodyW]

looks like a good way to stabilize those videos from the portable cams like the flip and zi8. I'll definitely have to come back to this video when I get my camcorder.