A Love Song Chopping and Stabilizing

The very part of my roll as post-production editor is to take raw footage straight from the camera and sequence it. No VFX, colour grading or sound will be done until I have a full run of the piece. I'll be using Premiere Pro for the arrangement, this is Adobe standard video editing software and incorporates a lot of powerful features, unfortunately it isn't really seen as the 'industry standard' that would be Final Cut Pro. Premiere does the job just as well though, I prefer the interface over any other as I've spent most time there.

There was also a small problem with the footage. We recorded the majority of the videos without a tripod and this combined with a very cold camera resulted in some of the footage being shaky. All though annoying not unsolvable, I took the footage in to After Effects and used the 'Warp Stabilize' tool.

It automatically runs through each frame and attempts to steady the footage, if it's very shaky you may see warping of the whole video; this is where you need to fine tune your settings. Usually though it works first time and in my case it did.

You can see here a short piece from the video before and after the footage was stabilized.