Stabiliser CS5

Do you have the Production suite or just Premiere? If you have the production suite then you can use After Effects' Warp Stabiliser to stabilise your footage.

Premiere CS6 will give you the Warp Stabiliser inside Premiere itself.

Could you just buy Mercalli and have that as a Premiere plug-in?

YesTom, could buy - but waste of money if it is hidden somewhere in Premiere Pro CS5.0.3 that I have been unable to locate.

There is no stabiliser as part of Premiere Pro CS5.03

The Deshaker plugin for Virtual Dub demo as linked to by Tom is what I use, there are some errors in the exact method shown in that video, for instance you only need one instance of Deshaker, not two, you just reopen the single instance after the first pass and toggle it's settings to 2nd pass, no need for more deshakers. The black that appears around the edges as the frame is moved to stabilise can be avoided by simply selecting "use previous and future frames to fill in the border".

 

Having tried After Effects and Mercalli and discarded them because they make video look steady but soft. I think  Deshaker  is the ultimate fix for steadying shaky video. It uses sub pixel positioning and as long as you select Bicubic in it's settings there is virtually NO visible degradation of the original fine detail.

That's quite a recommendation for VD's Deshaker Claire, and I should go and have a look-see.  The Mecalli 'steady-but-soft' accusation only applies if you zoom lots to cover very wobbly footage, and you can play around with the zoom control to control the losses.

 

It's a bit like the lossy 'active Steadyshot' I can call into play on my Sony NX5.  There's a resolution drop but I find that's far less noticeable than the steadyness increase.  It's more than fair-trade, it's a genuine bargain.

 

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