SunSurfer Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Just discovered YouTube have added a motion stabiliser to their editor. http://www.youtube.com/editor This carving snowboard video I came across shows the result. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9JfNBvM10wM" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="750" width="1280"></iframe> SunSurfer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 thank you for this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinecure Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 Nice corduroy. Too bad it's so crowded. :) Now they need an editor to make people with polecams look like less of a tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
utahcarver Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 Does anyone know how to upload or link to music files other than the ones offered in the editor? Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.oldsnowboards.com Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 Does anyone know how to upload or link to music files other than the ones offered in the editor? Mark Hi Mark. I believe YouTube controls this as a way to add advertising and control the rights issues. You can upload the video with your added music, however, they will block it if the music is rights protected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpalka Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 The youtube one seems to work OK. But the stabilizer I use, iStabilize from pixlock, does a much better job. Hope the original video author won't mind me posting a stabilized version -- I'll remove it in a few days, it's just to show the difference. <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/24323895?portrait=0" width="800" height="456" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/24323895'>http://vimeo.com/24323895">Stabilized version of: alpine snowboard carving, Russ following polecam</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1570026'>http://vimeo.com/user1570026">snowytom</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 ugh, mac only - I agree it does look much better. The PC ones that I can find are really complicated to use (at least for me) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted May 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 The comparison with the Mac stabiliser is interesting. With the Mac stabiliser, the background remains vertical and the motion of the riders is very smooth, and it is especially easy to follow the rider in the background, but you lose the sense of the sweeping motion changes of the camera and the image is extensively cropped. With the YouTube stabiliser, the shaking motion of the camera is removed, visible only as the shaking of the pole in the foreground, while the large scale motion of the camera as the rider makes his turns is preserved. The rider in the background can still be easily followed as can the shape of the landscape. And the image remains full screen, not cropped. It would be interesting to see a comparison between an original file and after the stabilising has been done by both stabilisers. I suspect it's going to be a matter of personal taste. I like the stabilising but dislike the cropping. Sean Martin apparently shoots in 1920x1080, edits, stabilises, then crops to 1280x720 to reduce the apparent cropping from the stabilisation process (comments made in thread associated with one of his promo videos in the Vendor section). If the YouTube editor is able to stabilise acceptably without cropping that seems a significant advance to me. SunSurfer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwmaron Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 The youtube one seems to work OK. But the stabilizer I use, iStabilize from pixlock, does a much better job. Hope the original video author won't mind me posting a stabilized version -- I'll remove it in a few days, it's just to show the difference. I don't think that bigwavedave would mind a bit if you left this version posted - besides, it makes an interesting comparison of the stabilizing technologies available. Russ (the rider in the background). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpalka Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 Nice summary, SunSurfer. Yes, the cropping is nice -- I used another stabilization software which over-cropped. All in all, I personally prefer the iStabilize method -- I like how in that version you can see how the carver leans and turns. After a while I focus on the rider and forget the black borders... Three years ago I tried to make a movie out of a bunch of followcam footage -- trying to make the riders blend into each other. Didn't work too well, I was pretty new to the whole video editing. But the stabilization part worked fairly well. Wish I had all the sources so I could play with it again... <iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9M1QUqa5NZs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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