DaVinci Resolve Stabilizer EXPLAINED - Fix Shaky Video FAST

[@cedarandsound]

Dude, look at the trees in that car shot, even on the last shot there's significant jello wobble. I don't think you ultimately arrived at a fully clean stabilized shot by the end. One thing you can try is by slowing down the footage to 75% speed for 30 fps, and if your footage was 50fps or higher you can slow the footage down to 50%, then use Frame Interpolation set at max settings Optical Flow and Enhanced. Render the video out essentially as a slow-mo frame blended video. Then re-import it, stabilize it with one of the three options, and the slow timing will give Resolve more time to stabilize without jello effects, then render it again. Then import the render and speed it up back to the original speed and export that. Bingo bango. Most of the reason you're still getting the jello effect on the trees is because the motion between frames is too great and Resolve can't keep up, you need added frames between them.

[@yesilikeapples3483]

I tried this, it worked a lot better than everything else I've tried, thanks

[@cedarandsound]

Glad it did, it's the first thought I had in troubleshooting, though I haven't done it myself.

[@afrosamurai3091]

Damn you cookee

[@TroyQwert]

This is what I do first thing: I decrease the footage speed. Usually to 80% for 30 fps. Even with no need to stabilize. Did you notice when you decrease speed of the 30 fps to 80% it becomes 24 fps or something like that?

[@SuperIzombie]

Finally, resolve tutorials from the best!

[@Yew-Tyewbe]

THIS is exactly what I needed! I always have struggled with the stabiliser in resolve, this has made it make sense! Thanks Matt!

[@TheTruthatLast]

Video actually explained what buttons to press in a coherent way well done

[@JasonPerryman]

Thank you for the quick and easy instructions. Having to do this task was a headache as it was a new request put on me, but you're a lifesaver for making it nice and simple to learn and do.

[@AndrewJeffersonCotter]

Thanks for being quick and to the point. Rare to find nowadays. I subscribed.

[@dollhausenx]

Thanks for info. And thanks for going further than some other channels to get through all those parts rather than going for the quickie. Good stuff.

[@Khkurk]

Matt's channel is the equivalent of a college course in videography. So helpful.

[@LightspeedTutorials]

Well done, short, dense and concise.

[@TheEldorado1991]

Thanks for actually explaining what each option is doing.

[@melissaviesca2299]

You're literally my favorite video editing teacher on youtube

[@jacobyu5050]

Awesone, your video explains everything.

[@NickeeGee]

Davinici Resolve is truly magic.

[@navarafilms5692]

Thanks Matt for sharing. Needed this information!!

[@AprilClayton]

Thank you. When I first saw the warping, I thought it was the camera. It happened with another. Realized it was the stabilization in Davinci. I’m going to check other options in there.

[@SimoneKehler]

Thank you so much for this video! It has been immensely helpful!

[@yedaoctopus114]

This is the reason where you should toss 180 shutter and shoot at above 1/200 + to mitigate motion for post stabilization especially night scenes . same goes for catalysts browse

[@lioncityhyperbole]

Thank you Matt! Somehow all the options don't seem to fix shaky video due to tilting/rotating left and right (and the tilting is very minimal). Any idea how I could fix this? Thanks!

[@ScootingaroundwithDan]

Thank you 🙏🏽

[@smepable]

I Just researched that topic for subtle gimbal shake and didnt find good Videos in it, awesome Timing!

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Fantastic video. I'm surprised this detailed of a video on the Stabilization tool hasn't surfaced before. So, thank you very much for doing this. Happy subscriber.

[@klsimedia8427]

That did the trick! Thank you.

[@raymorales6822]

thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@anilaboutme]

Great explanation. I have to admit though that your colors looked better in PP than DaVinci Resolve or maybe it's the camera?

[@xtinaspinkpixiedust]

Great video, thank you!

[@duffyrides]

Best video on stabilization 🙏👌

[@godsfilmmaker8863]

Good video! Thank you for explaining! You probably know this, but that drop down has an extra option if you’re filming on a fully updated BMPCC 4K, which is gyro (using the Gyro data from the black magic camera). I use stabilizer all the time but I did not know what a lot of those options actually do! Thank you!

[@bakerfx4968]

Hey Matt! Thanks for the video! Are you still the one editing your wedding films? Do you ever lack motivation to get a wedding done? How do you overcome it if so lol

[@4-MinuteMiles]

great vid, but... i'd be happy and probably not bother with stabilization if my source vides were as smooth as yours (unstabilized) :-). This was helpful!

[@lynsmith1096]

Good tips Matt

[@zaiENT1]

I haven't moved to resolve fully yet just because I'm so used to the warp stabilizer in premier pro, do you find the results in PP better overall?

[@by.wakhidd]

im happy using davinci resolve for color corection, but im still using adobe premiere pro bcs the stabilization warp is amazing than resolve

[@OfficeofthePacific]

Great video! Matt, I'm filming a music video with an A7SIII; should I be using Active Stabilization in the camera, I know in your settings video you had said to leave Standard checked? Thanks

[@whoismatt]

You can definitely use active if you want

[@sakreth1113]

Nice guide! What do you recommend for a tripod footage where the tripod's leg touched accidentally and made it shake a bit?

[@AdamSzarmack]

If you shoot on Blackmagic pocket cameras with their latest firmware, a fourth option will also appear called Gyro Stabilizer which uses the data from the camera gyroscope and its awesome. (Note it only appears if you shot in .braw)

[@FardeenTak]

The sony camera also shoots gyroscopic data, do we get an option for sony footage also ??

[@AdamSzarmack]

@@FardeenTak I don’t own any Sony cameras so I can’t say for sure but I want to say when they announced the feature it was only stated that it was for the BMPCC cams.

[@FardeenTak]

@@AdamSzarmack oh ohk thanks for sharing 🙌

[@aprilespinoza88]

I tried everything you mentioned and it still looks shaky, any suggestions?

[@GraphiZmelpeR]

Thanks a lot for the quick video! Now... Premiere/after effect' Warp stabilizer or Davinci Resolve stabilizer? 😏

[@toms2014]

Matt great video ! QUESTION... Are you going to do a video editing computer build for 2024 > ? Man I need a new edit machine for 1500 or less - ==

[@art4eigen93]

The more the frame rate, the more easy for the stabilization algorithm to stable your footage.

[@tommylerenard]

Thanks fella

[@GuillermoLescano]

Gracias bb

[@blaspayri]

thank you. Davinci Resolve's stabilisation process is rather unclear ... and I haven't had the courage to delve into the manual ... although it usually is not always very enlightening. You provide some heuristic to approach stabilisation which can be useful although the algorithms and parameters of DR remain hazy.

[@ryanhamstra49]

I usually just mess with settings until it looks ok. Nice to know what the settings are now haha

[@whoismatt]

😂😂👍

[@eduvivan2562]

Can post stabilization replace a gimbal shot?

[@ricardocarvalho1184]

top thanks

[@DTGL]

I feel like I have more trouble trying to stabilize in Resolve than I did in PR. Not sure if anyone else feels the same. Going to try the Planar Tracker that I've been seeing. I still prefer Resolve over PR!

[@by.wakhidd]

but stabilization in resolve it's so confusing lol

[@danielkondra107]

That didn't explain the differences between the stabilization types. I thought this was going to show the differences between similarity and translation

[@ricardocarvalho1184]

Davinci Resolve great ...

[@Wahyuvisual]

i think you bout to talk the gyro stabilization

[@smepable]

As an e-mail Newsletter subscriber it would be cool to get the link to the Cheat Sheet in the Mail so i dont have to subscribe again

[@Ben-fq1lj]

IF YOU ARE WATCHING, STOP: all these shots he uses are very easy shots to stabilize. Davinci resolve at the current time is unusable for stabilization. You will get horrible wobble artifacts no matter what setting you pick if the shot is any more complex or fast than these. In fact I challenge you Matt to do one on a gimbal like a reveal shot from a door to focusing on a foreground/reveal and not have horrible artifacts. Try doing a moving forward corridor shot with people or statues entering the frame or a reception dance where people come into the frame and i guarantee.....it will look horrible. Trust me I have tried to make it work, and as of now davinci resolve users need to put pressure on blackmagic to update the stabilizer.

[@bjoernfischer]

i use translation all the time and it works every time.

[@Ben-fq1lj]

@@bjoernfischer "works every time" not sure what your idea of acceptable stabilization is, but i'd have to see an uploaded example of the before and after to believe that. Translation has never solved the problems i run into.

[@bjoernfischer]

@@Ben-fq1lj you can't expect the software to do the whole job for you. film as steady as possible in the first place, and DaVinci will do the rest

[@Ben-fq1lj]

@@bjoernfischer I do expect it to....premiere's stabilizer works fine, why can't davinci resolves' do the same. There's no excuse on black magic's end. Just as adobe needs to improve their outdated color tools, so does blackmagic with their stabilization software.

[@bjoernfischer]

@@Ben-fq1lj seriously? I personally had the feeling that the warp stabilizer messes things up way more often. 😅 doesn't matter, of course, would be great if both companies would improve their toolsets. 😊 but for now, we have to work with what we have. have you tried out camera with giro stabilisation? maybe that's something for you. my a7siii has it, but you have to film with a high shutter speed and then use Sonys software to stabilize it, too much work for me personally

[@JolanXBL]

Cheat sheet is NOT free - you pay by adding your email to his mailing list. Extra steps involved.

[@transgirl420]

Thank you, super useful!!