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Multiple tracking points are automatically placed to
analyze the motion of the image for stabilization
This analyzes the clip, but no stabilization is yet applied.
4 Adjust the Strong parameter to reflect what kind of stabilization you want. If you want
to eliminate all possible motion from the shot, leave Strong set to 100. If you want to
use stabilization to smooth out the shot but leave some motion in the frame, reduce the
strong parameter to be less than 100 but greater than 0. This parameter is a multiplier,
so higher numbers reflect a higher percentage of smoothing being applied to the clip’s
range of motion, and lower numbers reflect a lower percentage of smoothing being
applied to the original range of motion.
5 If you’ve set the Strong parameter to a value less than 100 to calm the motion in the
shot, rather than lock the shot completely, you can also adjust the Smooth parameter
to mathematically smooth what motion remains in the shot. This lets you even out any
“wobbling” that you don’t want, while retaining the camera motion that you do want.
The Strong and Smooth parameters work together, so experiment with different values
in each parameter to get the result you need.
6 Choose how you want the edges of the stabilized clip to be handled using the
Zoomcheckbox:
If you want DaVinci Resolve to zoom into the image as much as is necessary
to prevent blanking (black edges) from intruding into the frame (the result
of repositioning the image to steady camera motion), then turn on the
Viewer Zoom checkbox.
If you want to leave the scale of the image alone, allowing blanking (black edges)
to intrude into the frame so that you either (a) have an effects artist deal with filling
in these holes later, or (b) manually animate the Input Sizing Zoom parameter to
eliminate blanking in a dynamic way, then turn off the Viewer Zoom checkbox.
7 With all of these controls adjusted, click Stabilize. The clip is immediately transformed to
apply the amount of stabilization you selected via the Smooth Frames slider.
8 Play the clip and examine the stabilization effect. If you need to make any changes,
choose new Strong and Smooth Frames values, then click Stabilize. Any time you
change any of the Stabilization parameters, you need to click Stabilize to recalculate
the resulting transform to your clip.
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