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Stabilize multiple clips sequentially on the timeline

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November 10, 2018
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I have 20 4k clips on the timeline, I made corrections to them and at the end, I want to apply "Warp Stabilizer".

If I do it at the same time for all the clips my iMac is not able to do it.

Often some of the clips are not stabilized and I have to press "analyze" again.

Even worse, sometimes the computer hangs because of the hard work because it tries to apply the "warp stabilizer" effect to all the clips at the same time.

I need to find a way to overcome this issue. The best thing would be if Premiere would apply the effect to the clips sequentially, but I don't know how to do it.

I hope you can suggest a new way to solve this problem, thanks.

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Aaron Ncz

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I like premier pro, and I generally really appreciate the whole adobe creative cloud solution, but just saying that this is a joke. I'm not a programmer or anything, but I just don't believe you can't put a button something like "analyze and stabilize all clips" when you select the clips. This is especially a joke, because the video was stabilized a few days ago, and now i have to go through it clip by clip. If my understanding is correct, this is an industry standard professional video editing application that millions of people use. Hope u guys solve this problem soon.

R Neil Haugen

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Warp has to re-analzye if you do about anything to the image ... so 'leaving' Warp on a clip and moving on is problematic to begin with. And given that Warp is by nature a massive computational sink, when you've got a bunch of clips as is noted in this thread ... if you are requiring it to re-analyze, well ... you're going to continually lock up that computer re-working the same dang clip.

I would recommend what I know a number do ... apply Warp, then render & replace the clip with the 'corrected' version. Now use that in your project moving forward. This way you get one analyzation and have a stable clip to work with.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

R Neil Haugen

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Dave ...

I have trouble seeing a polite, realistic response as "rude". And yea, I've had to modify my own shooting "style" because of reality numerous times.

Warp was built to be a last-ditch salvage operation. It rags the computer resources terribly. It is not the same as in-camera stablization just flipping a switch.

So ... can you use it say for every clip of a 40 clip sequence? Of course. Feel free. But ... it will take a lot of time to apply, and the processing time will be LONG. That's your choice of course. Make any change to any of the clips, that clip needs re-analyzing. (Which is why it's better to Warp and then render/replace that clip immediately ... )

Is stabilizing 40 clips on a sequence a practical or a best-choice option? I don't think it is either, as it does slow down the editing dramatically and introduces all sorts of potential issuers. There are other options out there.

That's just the reality.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

Dexter Golden

Inspiring

Hey Guy

I noticed in the 2020 verison of premier pro, I was able to put the warp stablize on all my clip BUT I didn't analyze until I was ready.

Once I was ready to analyze them I click on each clip and clip on ANALYSE on each clip.

When I came back a bit later they were all stablized per my specs. Granted some of them need to be modified but the process worked fine.

I know that trying to get stable footage in the field is always a challenge. And the times you thought you had it and your find you get a shake clip is just sorta the nature of what we do.

I hope this was helpful.

David

Mo Moolla

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20 4K clips needs warp stabilizer? Wow thats a lot of work for even a high end machine to manage. And it will be tremendously time consuming even if you were using proxies. May I ask why so many clips need stabilizing? And what cam were they shot on?

jovannigAuthor

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Sure...

I usually shoot short travel clips (20-30 secs) with Nikon D850 without a tripod and all the clips need to be stabilized.

That's why I have a lot of short clips to work with.

My iMac needs about 2/3 minutes for every clip and I don't want to stabilize a clip, wait and then stabilize the other.

What I need is a process that stabilizes all the clips sequentially, not all together.

So I could run this process and just wait for it to finish. In the meantime, I could do other kinds of works and I won't lose precious time running each clip manually.

Giovanni

Mo Moolla

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In my experience there is only one way to "batch stabilize" as I term it.

Edit your sequence with all the clips that go into the edit.

Nest the sequence and then apply the stabilizer to the nested sequence.

The disadvantage to this is you will NOT be able to adjust stabilizer settings per clip as to will affect all clips in the nested sequence.

How long it will take to analyze is anyones guess. Also please note that varying degrees of judder will need fine tuning and this method will not allow you to fine tune per clip unless you somehow managed to shake your camera in the same way for every shot lol.

Best of luck and let me know how it goes

Mo

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Every clip needs Warp?

I would suggest modifying the shooting process, as a heavy lifterclike Warp is designed to fix problems not be the standard effect on every clip.

That said, you're going to have to do this one at a time.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Mikhail Ivanov

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I agree with Dave.

For example right now I'm editing ~15 min project with more than 200 segments of which about 100 requires stabilization since it was shot on handheld camera. It would be much more better of course if I could re-shoot all the scenes from that trip with some kind of tripod, but I CAN NOT.

And I was really frustrated las time when I re-edit a large part of the project and on compile step I received a message with about ~40 timecodes for the segments that require "stabilization". I HAD to stabilize it all either way and right now I have only one choice: click "Cancel" an MANUALLY click-click-click all the enlisted segments. It is really painful. Instead there might be third button "Stabilize it ALL and continue". It woult save me a lot of time spent on tremendeously dumm work.

Sorry for bad english and have nice day!

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arthure78481115

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First, my reply that Dave Blair found offensive wasn't at all ... suggesting things that can improve the process is a normal part of any workflow discussion in any field. And as an adult, everyone is welcome to choose what they want to do. Period. And yes, sometimes you can't reshoot, that's generally understood.

Mikhail ... the Warp process as noted in so many places is incredibly resource-demanding. I understand your problem, I've of course had situations like that.

Would it be useful if we could tell Premiere to batch process a selected group of clips in Warp? Most certainly, and if it already isn't a request on their UserVoice system it should be. Feel free to go check there, and whether you upvote one already there or create a new one, post the link back here for others to upvote it.

I found two ... the first is about having clips already analyzed, that somehow lose analyzation during export ...

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/38171392-option-to-automatically-run-warp-stabilizer-during

The second one is about having Warp simply start analyzing when you apply it to a group of clips ...

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/38245702-warp-stabilizer-presets-do-not-automatically-analy

Now, having either feature would mean of course that when you applied them, you'd pretty much lock up your computer for some perhaps extended period of time.

That said ... at the current time, with that many clips needing Warp ... it's still a one-off process. And yea, that's a pain.

Neil

The rudeness comes from suggesting that he should have done things differently, when he just wanted someone to help him do the thing he wanted to do, better.

It would be like if someone asked "Does anyone know how to repair the axle of a Yugo? I can't seem to find parts anywhere. Is there a replacement part I can use?" And then someone replies "Why are you trying to fix a Yugo? It's a horrible car. You shouldn't even be driving that car in the first place."

So, no matter how true any of that response is, it does absolutely nothing to answer the guy's question, and is rude to imply he shouldn't even be doing the thing he wants to be doing - maybe the guy has some very specific reason he wants to fix the Yugo. I would disagree that warp stabilize is a last-ditch kind of thing as you suggested (as I mentioned, it can be very useful in applying a very gentle smoothing out of hand-held shots at very small stabilization percentage). But, it isn't even the issue if we disagree if it a great thing to use or not. The reality is he wanted to use it, and just wanted to know how to use it more efficiently.

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