EVERYTHING you didn’t know about STABILIZATION in Davinci Resolve 17 tutorial

hey what's going on everybody welcome back to my channel if you have not been here before my name is Jamie fen and today we're gonna talk about stabilizing in DaVinci Resolve now I have to admit when I first started using DaVinci I kind of just selected one of the three options and kind of played with the sliders and I really didn't know what I was doing so in today's video I'm gonna break down every single option for you that way the next time you go to use the stabilization feature you'll know exactly what you need to do so let's dive in and get started mister bear hanging out my backyard this summer just eatin some berries and hanging out but as you can see the clip itself is handheld and even with the g-h 5 ibis it's still kind of shaky so if you look over here to the right there's a section that says stabilization now you can make sure this is toggled on and that will make all these buttons live so just go ahead and click that on and what we first have is this giant button that says stabilize so underneath mode here you click the down arrow we have three options and basically these three options determine how the clip is analyzed and stabilized you must choose one of these options first and then click stabilize if you choose a different option so say for example if you select perspective and click stabilize and then you don't like the results and then you come down and go to similarity you'll have to click on stabilize again to reanalyze the clip so you may be asking what do these three mean and how do they work so this perspective mode enables perspective panning tilting zooming and the rotation so it brings in all of those factors when trying to stabilize your clip then there's similarity similarity enables the pan the tilt the zoom and the rotation and similarity is used for when the perspective analysis doesn't really work so if you kind of get weird artifacts and like warp II kind of looking style with perspective that's when you start to go to similarity next is translation this enables pan and tilt is when you think about it this is like the most advanced stabilization this is somewhat advanced and then this is like kind of more basic under the modes here we have camera law and camera lock disables the cropping ratio and the smooth slider here and it enables the stabilizer to focus on eliminating all camera motion from the shot so for example if I come up here and I click on camera lock and I turn off soom which by default zoom is always on but if I go ahead and analyze this you're gonna see how camera lock kind of stabilizes the clip it's kind of like one of my tutorials I did with the lockdown stabilization effect da Vinci pretty much stabilizes the clip as best as it can and it's moving the frame around but you see the black background so in order to get rid of that you can just click on the zoom and that zooms the clip in enough to the point where it shows no black and which does a really good job it locks the camera like it's on a tripod but sometimes your frame may not be framed up correctly and the composition will look off just like this so for this situation for this clip I wouldn't use camera lock so I would turn this off and again when you turn things on and off you have two restabilized and real quick when you stabilize something like perspective or similarity for this example right now and you change one little thing if you click restabilized it actually restabilized is really quick you don't have to wait for it like you do if you select one of these major modes that's a really nice so I kind of covered zoom but when you check this the image is basically just resized and it makes the clip large enough so you don't see the black edges of the stabilization so let's move down to these three sliders here which is cropping ratio smooth and strength so the cropping ratio it kind of works hand in hand with how much you're willing to kind of zoom into the clip for the amount of stabilization so if I turn the cropping ratio to one there's no stabilization okay so that cropping ratio doesn't do anything so it's kind of weird if you actually turn this down all the way so I'll show you the difference here's one this is with nothing no stabilization pretty much that's just default but when you turn this all the way down and you click stabilize now you can see it's really smooth it's great so by adjusting that you kind of just adjust how much you're willing to give up of the frame when you have this zoom button clicked in so let's move down to the next slider smooth this basically kind of rounds off all of the adjustments of the stabilizer I don't know if that really makes sense but it basically lets you apply smoothing to the analyzed data that the stabilizer creates when you stabilize a clip or when you analyze the clip lower values like the default setting point to five are very low in strength so if you want to smooth out the clip you got to bring this value up to one it's kind of weird it's kind of backwards from the cropping ratio so again if you turn this up all the way and you click stabilize now you have like a super buttery looking smooth shot so by default just keep in mind you have 0.5 up here and 0.25 so this is kind of like in the middle but if you really want to crank this down and turn up the smooth that's kind of like you're getting the most out of the stabilizer and then this brings me to my next point which is the strength so this is just kind of like the overall power of each one of these so with the strength all the way up to one that's the most powerful like these are both at one super powerful in the cropping ratio is at one but that's not powerful at all so strength and smooth just remember keep those up pretty high if you want to really have a smooth looking clip personally you guys I keep this at one and I just adjust the cropping ratio and the smooth typically I try to shoot in 4k sometimes I do shoot with 1080p so as far as the cropping ratio is concerned I like to kind of keep this higher for low res files and then turning this down and keeping it at 0.25 for high-res files and then the smoothing comes into place with that but for me I typically only play with those two and depending on the clip so you know your handheld or if you're moving with a GoPro or you're doing a vlog you're going to have to choose between these three modes and pretty much just play around with the smooth in the cropping ratio real quick before I end this tutorial the settings here work exactly the same as when you're in the color tab when you come over to the state Lizer same exact properties here you can choose here in these are the same settings so it's just kind of visually easier to see it over here I do all my stabilization before I go to the fusion in the color tab and fusions another whole story you can do stabilization in there but that will be for another video feel free to like and subscribe comment down below if you have any questions and I will see you my next video have a great day or night or afternoon bye

Channel: Jamie Fenn

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Length: 7min 18sec (438 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 30 2020

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