#29 Stabilizing Your Image in Premiere ProWhile you should always shoot with a tripod, sometimes you can't. Fortunately, Premiere Pro provides an effective, extraordinary image stabilization effect called SteadyMove from 2d3 Ltd (www.2d3.com).
It's a third-party plug-in, which means that (even though it comes free with Production Studio) you have to install it manually from the suite's main installation menu. Once installed, it lives in its own 2d3 folder in the main Video Effects folder. To apply it in your project, drag it to your handheld clip and open the Effect Controls window to see the controls in Figure 29. Figure 29. SteadyMove is as close to a "get out of jail card" for shaky video as I've ever seen.
In my experience, this effect is binary. Sometimes, it works with the default settings enabled, both stabilizing the image and zooming in to hide the adjustments, with no additional configuration from the user. The rest of the time, it doesn't work at all, and it's off to After Effects' image stabilization tool, which is discussed in #30.
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