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.
