TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
Apr 12, 2008 | 20mins.
• Learn advanced techniques for stabilizing footage in AE
• Composite realistic smoke behind vehicle with paticular
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
In this 2-part tutorial you will learn a great technique to stabilize shaky footage and we'll cover compositing smoke behind this moving vehicle with Particular. Thanks to Mark Christiansen for his great technique for this tutorial. Check out his book 'Adobe After Effects: Studio Techniques'.
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355 Responses to "Stabilize Shaky Footage"
jt
01/10/2012
u r the man!!!
Jonathan Sefah Tamakloe
07/19/2011
pls which type after effect do you use
brianimanuel
08/16/2011
In this tutorial he's using Adobe after effects 7.0 i believe
david
07/04/2011
Great... thanks!!
Marcus
06/29/2011
hey Andrew, whenever i start stabilizing, its stabilize but the end it says "Timed out obtaining dynamiclink esrve conection " can you please help me to solve this problem ??? Thank you
Iain
06/21/2011
Hi Andrew / Josh,

Have you any tips on stabalizing a shot with a big focus pull. i.e. DOP blurs out any points you may want to use for tracking. There are still points for tracking but these blur out half way through the shot when the focus pull happens. Was filmed on handheld DSLR so pretty shaky, but shot has come out nice otherwise.
Vladimir Pérez
06/02/2011
Incredible ANDREW! Thank's for share your tips!
Warren
05/17/2011
I want to let you know that you rock Andrew. You make this incredibly intimidating video editing program as easy as cake. Thanks for all of your help! Its making my AP world video SERIOUSLY badass.
fredotron
05/10/2011
Could you make one to stabilize a pan shot
Wiky
04/29/2011
You say that you copy the Anchor point from the video to the null object but how XD?
Julian Craane
04/13/2011
I wish I had on/off headlights on my car.
Addepat
03/19/2011
Great tutorial again!
tj varghese
03/16/2011
hey i have the after effects cs version , i dont have that trapcode- particular on my effects wat to do
Josh
04/07/2011
you will most likely have to download particular !
eldiine
03/13/2011
Very helpful tutorials thank you. (From Egypt)
tushar
02/18/2011
u r grate
Mawazi Alemo
02/10/2011
U guys have changed my life for ever,..i have gained so much skills with your tutorials
EricB
02/06/2011
To that I say do not call me Andrew, call me sir. Lol your a commedian! Nice tuts SIR!
Mike
01/09/2011
Hey man! I just love your tutorials. The have been a great inspiration 4 me an I´ve learned so much. Keep it up and I hope to see more EXCELLENT tutorials in the future. Also, I happened to see a glimse of your studio in a tutorial. Please show us some more.
Have a great 2011.
Shady
12/14/2010
Thx 4 the tutorials like'em (Algeria)
mohammed
12/01/2010
Hey This Is Very Nice Tutorial.

thank you for make this tutorial:D
Mitchell B
10/10/2010
Great tutorial, but there is a much simpler way to do this, as explained in this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq59Ua8THws . The steps are mostly the same, except insead of copying the anchor point data to a null, the data is copied to the position of the same footage, thus cancelling it out. Then using the smoother on the position data, the video is smoothed out.

This method has no null object, no camera, no 3d, and no expressions, and is much simpler.

But don't get me wrong... video copilot is still the best place to learn after effects!
Josh Kramer
06/14/2011
Aye, it's easier, but it isn't if you implement more footage in the same shot. Like this one with the smoke. Now you can just connect the smoke footage to the null object and you got the same camera movement.
rajeewa
09/18/2010
amazing stuff............... U R Great
da5id
07/19/2010
Wow, awesome tutorial, but also kind of disheartening too for someone like me who has never really used After Effects but is interested. I have used Photoshop since about version 4.0 so I understand masking etc, but all that linking in stuff really does my head in! :)

I appreciate the humour you bring to your videos as well.
buster
07/17/2010
Great tutorial!thanks
BTW did u go to jail that day;)
Simon
06/06/2010
thanks Andrew,
you 're King!
s.
bruce
05/10/2010
also forgot to add, do you know how to stabilise extremely jerky footage? like a camera out of the window of a car? it sends my footage off the screen :s ta
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