| I wanted to see how much stabilization I need for this video. As you can easily see, it is a mess. This is due to many different reasons, mostly the lack of a proper camera mount. The paved trail is actually pretty smooth on the bicycle, but the camera sees something completely different as it takes the roughness and more. I you might have figured, this video is so bad, any amount of stabilization will not fix this video. You'll see a series of clips, all of them of the same thing. This will make it easier to see the differences in the different levels of stabilization the YouTube video editor has to offer. The first one is without any stabilization, then increasing amounts. The YouTube video editor's stabilization feature has ten levels for stabilization. For this example, I only included the least, the middle and the most since the differences were very small in between each increment. As more and more stabilization is used, you will notice a lot of image distortion, namely skew and wobble. Even with some of the best camcorders, those equipped with CMOS image sensors will cause image distortions if there is a lot of panning and other quick movement. I've been able to keep a lot of these distortions out by using the camera sideways, but something as severe as this is impossible to keep from happening. Additionally, recording video in this manner doesn't fill the display correctly. You see that in a lot of mobile phone camcorder and iPod/iPhone videos as most people ... |
