Adobe Premiere Elements Video Stabilizer Demonstration

Here's quick video I put together to demonstrate the "Video Stabilizer" effect that's available in Adobe Premiere Elements. This video is split into three sections -- no stabilization on the left, 5% stabilizer in the middle, and 10% stabilizer on the right. Note that all three sections were taken from the same source video.

According to the Premiere Elements help file, the stabilizer works in the following method: "The Stabilizer effect removes unwanted camera shaking by analyzing the video image and tracking objects in the picture. If the entire picture moves suddenly, the effect compensates for the move by shifting the image in the opposite direction, thus smoothing out the camera jitter. You can specify the amount of smoothing. When the effect moves the image, it leaves empty video on one side."

Because Premiere Elements shifts the image to compensate for the camera shaking, it causes the strange effect to the black bars you see in the video above. In practice, you can get rid of the black areas by upscaling the video and cropping off the unwanted black areas.

Note that in this video, there's a significant difference between no stabilization and 5% stabilization, but little difference between 5% and 10% stabilization. I suspect that the amount of stabilization needed varies with the shakiness of the source video, but it's obvious that a shaky video can be dramatically improved by using the Video Stabilizer effect.

For a complete example showing the Video Stabilizer in action, please check out the following two videos:

Laveen in HD (stabilized): http://vimeo.com/4840667
Laveen in HD (unstabilized): http://vimeo.com/4841654

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[peeweethepinstriper]

Are you using Elements 7 or 8?

[clipper453]

@peeweethepinstriper I'm actually using Premiere Elements 4, but I suspect the later versions probably have the stabilizer effect.

[peeweethepinstriper]

@clipper453 Looks like i have in in 7 but don't think i can adjust it.. Just ran a test on my trex500 fpv video and comparing them... thanks!

[clipper453]

@peeweethepinstriper Adobe PE7 is only one version newer than PE4 (since they skipped 5 and 6 to bring it up to the same version number as Photoshop Elements). I'll bet the application of the stabilizer effect is the same in both versions. I know in mine, you apply the effect, but to adjust it, you must right-click on the clip and select properties. Then you can adjust the amount of stabilization in the properties for that effect.

[waxasbabar]

can u tell me how u put 3 videos in one like that. thanksss

[Panzzoo]

hy there, i wanted to ask, where can I find the stabilize option. Please reply! Panzzoo

[explorador26]

and Adobe Premiere CS5??? please!!!

[ussprinceton2004]

what software or program are you using to allow 3 different screens at the same time on this video?  Do you think the newest version, which I think is Premiere Elements 9 would have this video stabilizer effect? Will it be adjustable?

[CelebrityGrill]

Great demo. How to I use the stabilizer in Pre Elements 8?

[pocketvid]

If you want to stabilize your pocket camcorder before the editing stage, check out the readysteady. It's a pocket-sized solution to a big problem -- shaky video.

[djelvisi94]

hi. do you now if this video filter is olso in adobe premiere



[dwdrader]

Thanks for this very helpful video. I've got a Canon Vixia HF200 and I've shot some stuff on city streets from a moving bike and while it's not too-too crazy with shaking, it has a little too much of that 'Blair With Project' vibe going on and I think this will go a long way in helping me out. Thanks for this video and info.

[BeachCory]

What process is this called?

/watch?v=atkHJTWljUU

It's not tracking..

anyone of you gurus know?