How to Use the Warp Stabilizer Effect in Adobe After Effects CC

hey what's up everybody today I'm gonna be showing you how to use the warp stabiliser effect in After Effects warp stabilizer is a great post-production tool that you can use to stabilize footage that would otherwise be unusable so for example right here we have a some footage I shot and at first you know there's nothing really cool here but right here if you play it you can see it goes back and forth back and forth as we raise up and it can create a sort of nauseating feel behind it as we you know kind of climb towards the sky it's a great shot if it would be stabilized and so what we can do is we can actually apply the warp stabilizer and do that now a couple of things that you need to know before you apply warp stabilizer is that it can't stabilize everything if it's extremely shaky or if the camera is looking from left to right back up down it's gonna have a very hard time figuring out where it should stabilize itself so the first thing you need to do when stabilizing a shot is make sure to cut the shot down to the only the part that you're gonna be using so I want it to start here so I'm gonna bring the trim comp area to right there and then I want it to go on to right about there and so I'm gonna drag the comp whoops so I'm going to drag the comp end right here I'm gonna right click and hit trim comp to work area so now the entire comp and the clip is just the only the footage that I want there's no of the there's no a shot to the camera turning towards me or different planes all you see is the overhead view starting to take place so what you have your shot trimmed down it's really simple just drab the warp stabiliser VFX effect onto your piece of footage you can find that in the effects and presets by searching warp stabiliser or you can go to the distort tab up in effect and you can get it there so once we drop this on here it's gonna start analyzing the background and this is going to be a frame by frame procedure so that means that if you have a solar computer or a really large piece of footage it is going to take a little while as you can see right it's about 10% through this I'm yearning a quad core with a gtx760 graphics card that it's utilizing right now so I have a very fast computer and it's still taking a little while for just you know a 3 second clip so understand that it's going to take some time and every time you make an adjustment it's probably gonna have to reanalyze while it's analyzing one thing to note is that footage that has motion blur cannot be stabilized motion blur is something that just can't be corrected motion blur is when there's low light like this scene right here and if you see right here it's running in slow motion right now but as you can see that's a great time to see that see the blurs going back and forth so I used warp stabilized on this piece of footage and before it was just as shaky as the other one so now it's nice and smooth but it doesn't matter because there's all of that that motion blur in there that just makes it a big mess it looks stable but it looks like something weirds going on and so yeah if it has any motion blur in it the footage can't really be stabilized that well I mean you can stabilize it it'll make it look maybe a little bit better but it's not going to be you know worthy of like a commercial or something like that it just it's gonna be a low-grade piece of footage so whenever you think that you're gonna have to warp stabilize try to shoot in a very fast setting on your camera meaning the shutter rate is very very quick so that you don't get motion blur so we are now back over here and it has analysed and then right after it's on analyzing a orange bar will come up here that says stabilizing and that process usually is pretty quick so now we've transitioned into a actually a beautiful clip right here so as you can see it's almost perfectly stable going up and that is one of the beauties that After Effects can do but if you did if you got a good eye you noticed that one of the things warp stabilizer does is it zooms the footage in so it's using the edges it's cutting out the edges so that it can basically have more space so it's easier to stabilize footage that's closer to the because it isn't moving you know like circles and stuff like that so the farther away you are from the center of the circle the more that it'll the more distance that'll be covered with a small a slight degree change so basically that means that it has to zoom itself in to make sure that you won't see you know extreme warping on the edges which is what it's trying to do I have it using stop stabilized crop and auto skill sometimes a lot of people just go with stabilized only it won't do the auto scale with it but I like to have the auto scale because it it kind of just I mean it does a lot of little work for you here now right here it says one hundred thirteen point five percent so it means it scaled it up by 113 115 percent is kind of the limit for quality wise after 115 percent unless you're working with higher footage it's going to start looking bad so what I mean by that is this is a great trick to use if you're trying to warp stabilized footage is create a composition with the next step down in resolution so this was shot at 2.7 K but my resolution of my composition is 1080p so what that means is that even though it's zoomed in 100 13.5% it still just looks like a normal piece of footage because the resolution is such a smaller so much smaller than what it was originally shot on and so that is a great way to if you shot some 1080p footage and you're fine with it being 720 you can usually perform a pretty good stabilization by dropping down the Rosalind result resolution and so now that we zoom back out we see that it has actually corrected everything pretty well and it looks like just a normal piece of footage it doesn't look like it doesn't look like a warped or anything like that if you notice at the beginning you can kind of see the warp stabilization watch right over here it almost moves back and forth unnaturally and that's kind of what warp stabilization is doing is it's just trying to keep what's inner center and what's on the edges at the edges the whole time but with just a click of a button you can get a good warp stabilization now if I think this is too smooth as in I think it stabilized too much maybe I got too much warp going on the edges I can just remove the stabilization a little bit reduce the smoothness and now it's gonna run through the reef stabilization process it doesn't have to reanalyze the frames as long as you don't change anything there and then now we can go ahead and rerun this and if you see my scale drop to a hundred and eleven percent it doesn't need a scale that much anymore it's only two percent less but it doesn't need as much and if I keep dropping that down the scale will go down and down and down so that it removed that little anomaly we had down here so I kind of like this actually a little bit better than having 50% so you kind of got to mess around with the numbers and now we can try I'll show you like let's say I wanted that you know two hundred seventy two percent smoothness watch our auto scale is gonna go now up to one hundred twenty two percent as it tries to re-stabilize everything so if you see the girl over here has cut off a little bit more than she was before and you start to get a little bit of weird movements in the center some of the I mean we're going back and forth now a little bit as it's really over trying so more is not always better dial it into what you you know what you want to do and then you have the method right here and the method is how it's going to actually warp it subspace warp is a great warp to start off with it's going to manipulate and stretch data stretch the edges stretch things is basically what it's going to do if however you wanted to a position scale and rotate it's just going to affect just those things the position the scale and the rotation so it's not gonna try to warp anything it's just gonna try to move the footage back and forth to try to get everything looking right what this does is it causes these little if you could see right there look at the look at the house right here how its kind of bending it looks like it's right there you can see it looks like a piece of paper that you're bending back and forth like what's in front of me is all water or something and that's because without the subspace warp it can't undo the those effects the Subspace it's kind of doing that exact same thing but the Subspace is rebuilding different parts of the footage so now it corrects itself almost subspace warp has come a long way when it was first released it was actually one of the worst ones to choose but now I usually go a subspace warp overall so let's try this on another shot um let's go into here and we're gonna go with another shot it's kind of like the exact first one but I want to show you what happens so we have this shot which is just someone walking exactly like the night one except there's no motion blur in this one and the motion blur is really the big thing here so if we drop warp stabiliser on here real quick if we look around the footage is perfect on all sides it's exactly what we want so we don't need to cut it down so it's gonna run really quickly all right now it is done and so we're getting into the stabilization it's gonna go through that process really quickly and now we have our footage so the end result is actually a lot better than the first one and you see because there isn't the motion blur like the night scene it's actually a perfect track right here so it looks very stabilized and it um almost looks like you're using a Steadicam it does look slightly warped you just kind of get an eye for it you can see that it's slightly warped on the edges but this is a perfectly usable footage and I'd use it in anything that I am working with so that is the warp stabilized effect in Adobe After Effects remember you can just mess around with these settings to try to figure it out move the smoothness up and down and you're really just gonna have to mess around with it to find the best stabilization for your piece of footage some footage can't be stabilized due to motion blur or excessive movement but I'd always give it a shot see how it works and thanks everyone for joining me and until next time guys see ya

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Length: 11min 6sec (666 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 04 2016