Instructor: In this tutorial, we're going to learn
how to stabilise footage using the Warp Stabiliser effect.
So go ahead and find the Warp Stabiliser effects,
search for warp in your effects bin.
Here are two shots from hiking
in southern California.
The first is unstabilized, the second is stabilised.
You can see that the first there is
a little bit of camera shake.
The second, nice and smooth.
It almost looks like a nice tilt down.
With this shot, it's a lot more shaky,
and the stabiliser tries to do a better job
of stabilising it.
And we're going to dive into the details
of the effect to see how it's actually working.
So first with this first one, let's just delete
the Warp Stabiliser and you can see without
and then when we add Warp Stabiliser,
it analyses it, it sees what's going on,
it tries to see what's happening with the camera shake
and then it will apply it.
And this one automatically does a decent job.
We have the settings that are standard
with the effect.
We want a smooth motion shot.
If you want, we can do no motion
and what it's really going to be doing then is
zooming in and cropping just a bit.
So see, look at it, literally like no motion at all.
There's a little bit of a sort of perspective change
in the beginning.
But I like the smooth motion a lot better for this shot.
It doesn't look bad at all.
The smoothness, you can change it from the 50%
to a little bit lower so if you want
a little bit more of that motion
or if you want less motion, that's getting closer
to the no motion option.
And then the method we have Subspace Warp,
Position, Position, Scale or Perspective.
Position is just going to move the frame around
to try to get it to be stable.
Position, Scale and Rotation will not only
just move it around left, right, up and down,
but it will rotate and it will scale up if necessary.
And with perspective, this will do
a relatively good job because it's actually looking
at your frame and it's kind of as if the camera angle was
turning left, right, up or down to get
a different angle.
And that does a really good job for this shot.
Subspace Warp kind of combines everything
and it will actually bend your image
so that it looks stable or tries to make it look stable.
Let's jump over to the hiking three clip.
So without it, very unstable.
With the effect, stable but you get
this gelatin effect.
And I'm going to tell you up front
that this shot it's just too shaky to have
a good stabilisation in Adobe Premiere Pro.
You can take it into After Effects
or other programmes and get it to be stable,
but in Adobe Premiere Pro there are some limitations.
What we can try to do is change the Subspace Warp
or change the smoothness.
Maybe we don't want it as smooth.
It's kind of counterintuitive when you're trying
to make it more smooth.
You think oh I want to make it 90% or 80%,
but sometimes you have to decrease the stabilisation
so that you don't get that gelatin effect.
So at 10% you still get a little bit
of that gelatin effect, but it's better than without it.
So without it, super shaky.
With it, I would say a little bit better.
To see what's going on, let's change the borders framing
from Stabilise Crop and Auto Scale to Stabilise Only.
Look at what's happening.
This frame is bouncing around, it's going crazy.
You see the edges, it's rotating,
it's scaling up or down, well it's not scaling up
or down right now but it's rotating,
it's moving around.
If we want we can do a Stabilise Crop
which just crops it in and then the Stabilise Crop
and Auto Scale will actually zoom in to the footage
to fill the frame, okay.
So these are a few options to play around with
if you have a shot and you're trying to get it stable,
I would definitely play with the smoothness
going lower or higher and then the method.
Sometimes Subspace Warp works better
but sometimes just Perspective might look better.
Then you don't get as much of that
sort of jello effect.
It's a little bit shaky still but less of that jello.
So that's the Warp Stabiliser in Adobe Premiere Pro.
It's a great tool.
I add it to a lot of clips, even stable clips
that I use with my monopod on
because there are some of those minute hand motions
that you don't think you're making
but then when you're watching your video
on a big screen or just in high resolution,
you will see those little minute motions
and adding Warp Stabiliser really helps.
And also for drone footage, really good to add
Warp Stabiliser to it.
Thanks for watching and we'll see you
in another lesson.