Now before you shout me down with your “Blender can do that!” patriotism, let me first explain how you would do it in Blender:
Open Blender, Import the footage into the Movie Clip Editor
Track a few markers (which might be tricky, since your footage is so shaky)
Enable 2D stabilization and assign those markers
Enable Display Stabilization and be shocked at how cropped your video is now
Spend the next half hour tweaking settings until you’ve got an acceptable video
And finally render it out (without forgetting the audio!) to a format (you hope) your TV or YouTube will understand using a limited number of encoding controls.
So that works, sure, but if you’re looking for something really quick and easy that gives you a huge amount of optional control over the output file, give our friend FFmpeg a try! Continue Reading…