Camera Motion Compensation Example 1 (Wedding Video)

An example of motion tracking used to compensate for the panning, zooming, and rolling of a camera while recording. When performing this compensation, the stabilized video can be combined with past and future frames, along with other techniques, to fill in gaps caused by the camera's motion (not done here). The end result is a high-quality stabilized video. This example is zoomed out to show the full range of the camera's motion. Only very gradual changes in zoom, panning, and roll are allowed and are averaged over time. No gap-filling techniques are used in this particular video, so that the current transformed frame can be clearly identified at all times. The particular software used in this example is VirtualDub 1.9.7 (free) with Gunnar Thalin's Deshaker 2.4 plugin (also free) with some extreme settings. The original source video was a Quicktime movie (AVC/PCM). VirtualDub (like almost everything else) does not support Quicktime videos natively. I brought it into VirtualDub using Tateu's Quicktime Import 0.2 (also free) with customized import settings to make it work. Since I hate the virus that is Apple's Quicktiime software for Windows, I used Codec Guide's Quicktime Alternative 3 (also free) to allow the decoding. Since YouTube likes H.264 video encoding best, I used the H.264 encoder included in ffdshow tryouts 3111 (also free) to encode the video.

Software links (all full version, 100% free):
VirtualDub 1.9.7 - http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/
Deshaker 2.4 - http://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm
Quicktime Import 0.2.0.0 - http://www.tateu.net/software/
Quicktime Alternative 3.0.0 - http://www.codecguide.com/download_qt.htm
ffdshow tryouts 3111 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/ (Just to clarify: This is full-version software. "tryouts" is just how ffdshow labels their unofficial releases.)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Camera
• Motion
• Tracking
• Compensation
• Deshaker