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The rest of the stabilization controls let you refine the result. Whenever you adjust any of these parameters, you must click the Stabilize button again for the effect to be updated.
— Stabilization Method: A drop-down menu provides three different options that determine how the selected clip is analyzed and transformed during stabilization. You must choose an option first, before clicking the Stabilize button, because the option you choose changes how the image analysis is performed. If you choose another option, you click the Stabilize button again to reanalyze the clip.
— Perspective: Enables perspective, pan, tilt, zoom, and rotation analysis and stabilization.
— Similarity: Enables pan, tilt, zoom, and rotation analysis and stabilization, for instances where perspective analysis results in unwanted motion artifacts.
— Translation: Enables pan and tilt analysis and stabilization only, for instances where only X and Y stabilization gives you acceptable results.
TIP: These controls are identical to those found in the Video Inspector and the Color page Tracker palette, and populate the same image processing data. This means that you can use the Stabilization found on the Cut page, and then use the stabilization graph and controls found in the Color page to refine the results, if necessary.
TIP: These controls are identical to those found in the Video Inspector and the Color page Tracker palette, and populate the same image processing data. This means that you can use the Stabilization found on the Cut page, and then use the stabilization graph and controls found in the Color page to refine the results, if necessary.
TIP: These controls are identical to those found in the Video Inspector and the Color page Tracker palette, and populate the same image processing data. This means that you can use the Stabilization found on the Cut page, and then use the stabilization graph and controls found in the Color page to refine the results, if necessary.
— Stabilize: Clicking this button on a previously unstabilized clip analyzes the motion in that clip and applies an initial smoothing effect. Clicking this button on a clip that’s already been analyzed lets you recalculate a modified stabilization effect.
Lens Correction
Lens Correction presents two controls that let you either correct lens distortion in the image, or add lens distortion of your own for effect. These controls are also editable in the Video Inspector and Color page Edit Sizing palette.
Lens Correction controls in the Viewer
— Analyze: Automatically analyzes the frame in the Timeline at the position of the playhead for edges that are being distorted by wide angle lens. Clicking the Analyze button moves the
Distortion slider to provide an automatic correction. If you’re analyzing a particularly challenging clip, a progress bar will appear to let you know how long this will take.
— Distortion: Dragging this slider to the right lets you manually apply a warp to the image that lets you straighten the bent areas of the picture that can be caused by wide angle lenses. If you clicked the Analyze button and the result was an overcorrection, then dragging this slider to the left lets you back off of the automatic adjustment until the image looks correct.