So if you own the Sony ZV1 you know the stabilization coming out of this camera
isn't perfect, so in this quick video I'm going to show you a special way
of getting super buttery smooth footage coming from the Sony ZV1 just like this...
So you can see there in those shots they are the before and afters and i filmed all
of those in norwich and cornwall with the sony zv1 with all of the stabilization turned off
so i'm going to show you how you can import your footage into catalyst browse
and get your footage looking as stable as that so let's jump into it
so the first thing i'd recommend you do before you start using catalyst browse is download all
of your footage from the sony zv1 onto an external hard drive like this this is the samsung t5 i'll
put a link in the description below but once you've got all your footage on here it's much
easier to then bring it in and edit it on catalyst browse okay so we've opened up catalyst browse
i've connected the hard drive and you can see here i've got my norwich and my cornish
shots here from the sony zv1 so first of all how can you tell if you've got footage that you
will be able to edit well if we look here in the top right corner of each shot you can see you've
got a little movie icon and a little stabilization icon there and that means you've got the gyro
data available that you need so you can add the catalyst browse version of the stabilization so
let's just take this shot here let's go into that and let's just quickly play that back now you can
see it's pretty wobbly i did this on purpose it's pretty wobbly we're going down towards the beach
it looks pretty unusable you know if you put that in one of your youtube videos or documentaries or
whatever you know it wouldn't really be acceptable so let's see what we can do in stabilization now
all you need to do is come down to the bottom here and click stabilize catalyst browse will
now analyze that clip and then if we take it back to the start and play this back the shot on the
left is the original and the shot on the right as you can see looks so much smoother already
so that looks pretty pretty good now just a word of warning here it will crop in very slightly but
you can adjust this here just by clicking manual and then you can choose the amount of the cropping
ratio i wouldn't take it too far away from this line for you know the best best version of the
stabilization but you can zoom out a little bit you know you can see there it's nearly cropping
out the top of that tree if you take it too far you'll find the stabilization just won't work
that well so i take a little bit up here to 90 and if we play that back you can see that still looks
pretty good it has added a little bit more of a wobble but you know what i'm pretty happy with
that i'm just going to take it down a percent or two and then all you need to do is click export
and then we're going to export it to our stable cornish folder and then we're going to hit export
now this will take a few minutes depending on the length of your footage i've found for around
about a minute clip it will take around about a minute and a half on the 2020 macbook pro 13 inch
so let's take a look at the shots before and after so that's pretty
great let's take a look at another quick shot here while we're in catalyst browse
uh let's maybe try this one where we're walking down the street in knives i'm just going to click
that and click stabilize and let's play these through just look how shaky the shot on the left
is compared to the stabilized shot here on the right let's export that and see how that looks
so in terms of importing the footage it's as simple as that simply pressing that stabilize
button and waiting for the magic to happen but i came across a huge issue when i first
started using this and the first few shots i did on day one i took the camera out and walked around
norwich and as you can see from this footage here when it was stabilized you can see that it looks
more stable but if you look closely at the edges of shop signs people walking and people's hair
you can see that these little micro jitters appear and really for some shots you wouldn't
notice it but for a lot of them it was really really off-putting and i don't think you could
use this footage so it got me really frustrated i thought this is pointless you can't use this
catalyst browse to improve your footage and you'd be better off with shaky footage and then i saw a
video from our friend jevin dovey who recommended uh by the way check out his channel if you haven't
seen it but he recommended changing your shutter speed up to it as fast as you can allow and we did
that and i changed the shutter speed to 300 when i went out for a walk in cornwall and that really
did make a big difference so what i'm going to show you here is just the quick shot again
one taken from the walk around in norwich and as you can see this has loads of those micro jitters
now if we take a shot here from cornwall where you can see the shutter speed is around 300
and then we have the stabilization it really makes a big difference this looks super smooth
and it completely removes those micro jigs now when you increase your shutter speed you should
be aware that your footage will look a little less cinematic you know the reason that you double your
shutter speed to your frame rate is so that it matches that of the human eye it's meant to feel
much more natural so when you increase the shutter speed you actually remove a lot of that motion
blur that you would naturally get in your footage so you are removing that so the footage doesn't
look quite as good in my opinion it's still great and it definitely rescues some of your shots
but i would probably recommend using the embody stabilization even though this does look pretty
great so let's try and stabilize this shot here again i think atlas browser is going to
do a pretty good job if we play this back you can see here on the right hand side this is the new
stabilized shot as we start to walk forward you will get some little micro movements and that's
just natural that's just me walking down a hill towards the beach but you can actually improve
this shot even more if you add warp stabilization within premiere so let's export this put this in
premiere and show you how it looks original with catalyst browse and then with the warp stabilizer
so there we go if you just have a sony zv1 you may not even need a gimbal if you use catalyst browse
overall i think it's a pretty good piece of software for really taking out those shakes
when using your sony zv1 but as i've mentioned it is a bit of a hassle because a you have to
turn all of your stabilization off and then you have to try and fix it in post in catalyst browse
that takes some time and secondly you may not be able to rescue the footage and you
won't know until you try and edit it so have a play around let me know in the comments section
below what you think of it i'll be using it for some scenarios i think for other situations
i'll be using the active in body stabilization but anyway thanks for watching let me know what
you thought of that in the comment section below and i'll see you in the next video