Warp Stabiliser on Premier Pro 2022

[rob-mcp]

Can ANYONE help with this. Try as I might, and after watching a stack of how to videos. I am finding it impossible to get Warp Stabiliser to make any apparent difference to hand held videos I take. Anyone suggest a BASIC set of settings that I can apply and view a video and think, yes, that looks better.

[Ann Bens]

There is hand held video and there is hand held video.

Without a screen capture its impossible to help. Or upload a clip for testing.

[rob-mcp]

Happy to upload a clip (If I knew how) found out updating

However I did say

Anyone suggest a BASIC set of settings that I can apply and view a video and think, yes, that looks better.

UPDATE. I've just uploaded a particularly poor exammple. I realiase it could be better, BUT, no matter how many different settings I use, I can produce nothing at all that looks like any of the Youtube vids posted by 'experts' who say, click click click and done. I'm not a fool and I realise I need to work at this but so far, as memntioned no difference with warp and without.

[Peru Bob]

There is too much shaking in that video to be stabilized by warp stabilizer.

Warp stabilizer can fix minor shaking, but not very badly shaking video.

You can try cutting the clip into pieces and try warp stabilizer on the individual cuts, but you will have to match the scaling.

[rob-mcp]

I realise it's (very) shaky but even on better handhelds I cannot produce the same improvements others 'say' they can.

Hence the frustration.

[Ann Bens]

You will never get this right.

I can hardly call this hand held footage I would call it hosing the garden.

Hand held means some shakyness and sloooooooow panning.

[rob-mcp]

Curses!

I'd hoped that Warp stabiliser might be of some use.

[Ann Bens]

Might want to change your way of filming.

[rob-mcp]

Might want to change your way of filming.

You live and learn ( also, not always possible on the fly )

[Peru Bob]

Think twice before deciding that you can "fix it in post." 

[rob-mcp]

Think twice before deciding that you can "fix it in post." 

Fair point but then Adobe wouldn't plug new tools like Warp!

[Ann Bens]

Think twice before deciding that you can "fix it in post." 

Fair point but then Adobe wouldn't plug new tools like Warp!

By @rob-mcp

You should use the plugin as it is designed for. Not trying to go to the extreme and grumble, it does not work.

You live and learn ( also, not always possible on the fly )

By @rob-mcp

Then decide not to use the footage or accept.

[rob-mcp]

You should use the plugin as it is designed for. Not trying to go to the extreme and grumble, it does not work.

As a beginner, I relied on people 'showing' how it was used on a multitude of Youtubes, saying how good it was, no caveats as to what it would or would not do.

I posted here hoping for some help. Everyone starts at the bottom.

Then decide not to use the footage or accept.

I cannot replicate the footage, I'd hoped to improve it, even a little, and what should I accept?

Community guidelines

Be kind and respectful.

[Ann Bens]

multitude of Youtubes, saying how good it was,

Then decide not to use the footage or accept.

I cannot replicate the footage, I'd hoped to improve it, even a little, and what should I accept?

Community guidelines

Be kind and respectful.

By @rob-mcp

Tutorials are usually made with footage that is easy to use. Specially made for the tutorial.

They hardly ever  tell you when it does fail.

and what should I accept?

That you shot bad footage: either use it as it is or put it in the trashcan.

Criticism does not always show as kind and respectful to the user. Sorry.

[Peru Bob]

Be kind and respectful.

By @rob-mcp

I apologize if the replies seem unkind to you. 

We are just offering constructive criticism and don't mean to offend you.

I relied on people 'showing' how it was used on a multitude of Youtubes, saying how good it was, no caveats as to what it would or would not do.

By @rob-mcp

As you know, I'm sure, not everything that you see on the internet is always completely as it seems.  Sometimes the truth is stretched a bit.

[Ann Bens]

Adding to this:

By most questions asked, we cannot determine if the user is a beginner or a professional.

If we act on as if the user is a professional and turns out t be a beginner, user gets upset.

If we act on if the user is a beginner, and it turns out to be a professional user gets upset and sometimes quite offended.

Sometimes the user is a long time user of a different editing software and just starting out with Premiere. What is the level of expertise of this user????????

All and all it does not make our 'job'  any easier.

[rob-mcp]

Criticism does not always show as kind and respectful to the user. Sorry.

Apology accepted thank you.

No one is above it, I just felt that the answer was a little blunt, or slightly patronising.

I have been a programmer since 1989, and for the last 17 years I've owned an internet consultancy designing and building web sites. I am by no means stupid, but accept that I do not know everything either.

I now want to learn what I can about photo editing ( which is ok - ish) and video editing, which I accept is very basic.

I had hoped (generally) that a support/community site provided by a supplier, that I pay a lot of money to use, would be a kind and respectful place to visit.

Alternately if you'd just said, it's a pile of plop. (As a Scotsman, I'd just have laughed)

Shall we start afresh?

(I worked on the clip(s) they are slightly better thhanks)

[Media Editor · Accepted solution]

I cut out the first two seconds and stabilized it.  It played back fairly smoothly.   I then changed the speed for the entire video without stabilization to 50.  It played back with less shakiness.

[rob-mcp]

I have done similar, thank you for the suggestion. That camera ran at 120fps for that possibility.