I agree with Rick: these shots are almost totally the result of careful planning, a professional crew using professional equipment, and many, many takes to create the desired look. In other words, these shots are accomplished AT THE TIME THEY ARE SHOT. In the end, this is a far more efficient way to work. On the extremely rare occasion when a shot is discovered to be not as stable as desired, there is no way of knowing what was done. The demands of each shot dictate different techniques. They use stabilization only as a last resort. They do not use it regularly as a crutch to ease the burden on photography, which you seem to think. There is no one-size-fits-all recipe for stabilization, which it seems you seek. And it does not exist.
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