today.
I'm going to be explaining everything
that you need to know about Da Vinci resolve stabilizer as quickly as possible.
So if you are a filmmaker that is looking to get smooth footage,
this video is for you and to save you time.
I've put together a free one page cheat sheet that you can reference at a glance
to know
all of these settings for is all stabilization,
and that is going to be even faster for you than watching this quick video.
So I will link that free cheat sheet down below.
now let's say, do you have a clip that your editing
that is shaky and you want to stabilize it in resolve
like this clip that I have here
that had a bit of shakiness due to my gimbal
being a little overly sensitive to do that.
You can select your clip,
go over here to the inspector in the now to stabilization and click stabilize
and resolve.
It's going to do its thing and hopefully stabilize your footage.
But if that stabilization does not work for some reason, let's say you're seeing
some wobbly jello effect like you can see right there in this clip
or maybe the motion blur looks weird or your video gets cropped in.
I'm so happy to tell you that you have other options to help
stabilize your footage and remove those issues.
To start with this first dropdown menu here, you're going to see the by default
resolve is going to use perspective, which basically means that it is analyzing
your camera's pan, tilt, roll and zoom to figure out how to stabilize the image.
This usually works really well out of the box, but sometimes
this can introduce unwanted jello or other wobbly effects in your shot.
If that happens, you have two other options here.
You could alternatively select similarity and then hit stabilize again
and similarity is going to analyze those exact same things as perspective,
but use a different stabilization algorithm to do it, which can result
in significantly better stabilization depending on what you're filming.
This would be my first recommendation.
If you're footage is not looking so good, simply try similarity
and there's a chance for your footage to look a lot better.
if your footage still doesn't look good, and especially if you're filming something
on a gimbal, like, say, a barn that is a wedding venue, for example,
when there isn't a subject in your shot and the barn itself is your subject,
In this case, the translation option may be the best choice for you
because it can help remove subtle camera shake, lets it stabilize and voila.
Look how much smoother this shot is with translation.
on back to our first clip that still is being a little stubborn
when it comes to stabilization.
You're going to see a checkbox underneath the mode that says camera lock.
And by default, this is going to be unchecked.
If you were filming something handheld
and you want to make it look like it was filmed on a tripod,
this is the box that you want to check
because it's essentially going to try to lock your image in place.
Of course, keep in mind that if things look weird, you can go back up to Mode
and choose perspective, similarity or translation with this checkbox,
which may give you a better result.
So don't be afraid to try that below the camera lock box.
You have the zoom checkbox
and this is definitely a box that you're going to want to have checked
because whenever you stabilizer footage and resolve, it's going to zoom in a bit
to help with stabilization.
If you want to modify how much it's zooming in and out, you can use this
cropping ratio slider which by default is going to be set 2.5.
increase the slider to 1.8 and resolve is going to barely crop in on your footage
and stabilize it less or decrease the cropping ratio down to 0.25
and resolve is going to crop in more but also stabilizer footage more as well.
You normally shouldn't need to mess with this setting,
but if you're noticing that your footage is zooming in too much, try
increasing the cropping ratio a bit more and that can help smooth things out.
Two settings left you have smooth and strength.
Smooth is, as the name implies, going to make your video
smoother and by default it is set to the lowest setting,
which usually should make your footage look smooth without overdoing it.
But if you have a particularly shaky clip and you're trying to tame it, feel free
to increase the smoothness. But be aware that if you do
resolve is going to crop in on your image even tighter.
You can get rid of some of that crop by increasing the cropping ratio,
but that is going to offset some of the smoothing effect.
it's all a balance.
And the amount of smoothing versus ratio that you choose
is really going to depend on the clip that you're stabilizing.
Lastly, you have strength and strength is really there to help with micro jitters
that you would commonly see if you're filming with a camera handheld by default,
strength is going to be set to its full strength, as it were.
But if you're noticing any subtle jello or warping effects,
especially in the upper corners of your footage,
decreasing the slider down to 0.5 or even zero can help with that.
For this clip.
I find that choosing the similarity mode and setting the crop ratio to about 0.8
or so has really tamed some of the jello and warping and made this clip look great.
And that is DaVinci Resolve Stabilizer explained.
Remember that you can download my free stabilizer cheat sheet down below
and if you want, even more help with your video editing,
I've created a free guide called Edit videos Like a pro.
this guide is going to walk you
through some of the biggest secrets that I have discovered over the years.
They will help you speed up your editing.
You can download this guide completely for free at the link down below.
Thanks so much for watching and have a great day.