I'm Alexis Van Hurkman and welcome to Resolve in a Rush where you'll learn DaVinci Resolve
Grading and Finishing techniques in Under 5 Minutes. I'm gonna show you how to use the
image stabilizer, using this first establishing shot. Which is this beautiful 20-foot crane
shot, unfortunately the wind was blowing pretty hard, so if I play through this shot you can
see that even though I have nice smooth motion because of the camera support, the wind is
introducing just a little bit of wobble to the scene. Fortunately DaVinci Resolve has
Image Stabilization which is found inside of the Tracker Palette. There's a second mode
of the Tracker palette the Stabilizer, and I can use the Stabilizer in this case to analyze
the scene and get rid of any wobble that I don't like. First things first, I’m going
to turn on Loop and another thing, you'll notice that the background is black
so I am going to open up the settings and inside of the Project Settings I'm gonna go to General
Options and turn on "Use Gray Background in Viewers".
Click Apply, This Lightens up the background
its going to make it really easy for us to see what happens when we first
apply Stabilization. Inside of the Tracker Palette all I need to do is click the track forward button.
and Resolve automatically analyzes the whole shot.
The analysis shows up in this graph
and you can see that each line in the graph is color coded to show you individual
analysis for Pan,Tilt, Zoom and Rotate. All of which i've analyzed.
Going back to the very beginning of the shot, first you analyze then you stabilize, when I click stabilize
with the default settings and play through. You can see that I've gotten the wobble out
but I've done it in the most extreme way possible. With the default strong setting of 100
and smooth set to 0 clicking the stabilize button, basically tells Resolve to try and pin down the image.
This is a little extreme, it's not quite what I want, so I'm gonna use the
strong and smooth controls to reintroduce some of that camera motion back into the shot
while continuing to smooth things out. To make it a little easier to see what I am doing
i'm gonna press Command + to zoom into the frame
and i'm gonna middle mouse click drag the frame over.
Now, the Strong parameter is the parameter that dictates how much stabilization
I want to add. If I double click this set it to 0 and click the Stabilize button again.
I'm effectively eliminating the motion smoothing from the image. Let's do something a little
bit different, let's set strong to 90 and lets turn smooth all the way up to 99.
Click Stabilize and now lets take a look at the motion. Now, i've got more of that range of
motion in the shot, but its still smooth. You can manipulate both of these parameters
to allow more or less of the original motion through into the shot for example I can lower
the smooth parameter, click stabilize, and now I have a little more of the original stabilization
data coming through. Or I could drop the Strong Parameter Click Stabilize
and now I am reintroducing just a little bit of the original wobble. So, by manipulating both the Strong and Smooth
parameters you can try and find a happy medium between the original camera motion and the
smoothed camera motion you are trying to achieve. If I re-frame the entire shot,
you can see that around the corners of the image all of this smoothing is causing a little bit of
geometrical shifting. Now, one way I can get rid of that is by turning on this zoom box,
when I click stabilize the image is automatically zoomed in to the point where any blanking
that was introduced at the edges of the frame as a result of my motion smoothing is eliminated.
Except that I've got this letter boxing baked into the image. Fortunately it's an easy thing
to open up the Sizing Palette and you can just manually zoom in and now I've really
got that nice smooth crane shot that I originally wanted. For more information about stabilization,
tracking, and color grading in DaVinci Resolve. Check out the Color Grading in DaVinci Resolve
11 title I did for Ripple Training and stay tuned for more Resolve tips in Under 5.