Have a happy new year, cant wait to see what you post in the future. Some more mellow surf at dawn/dusk would be sweet. How about some timelapse with long shutter action (how many NDs you got?).

I don’t know mate. . .I don’t use any kind of stabilisation for my handheld stuff and it shows. Hahaha!

No matter how steady it feels I am being, there is pretty much always a miniscule amount of jello in everything I shoot handheld. Adding weight to the camera, rails, etc. can work as it just takes that tiny little shake out of it, that’s most perceptible and smacks of a tiny, underweight handy cam with no Image Stabilisation.

The trouble is, and I ran into this very problem this afternoon, you can smoothcam the footage, but because of the rolling shutter, even though the subject and scene may be static, there is still skew and wobble in the footage. Stabilising works to a degree, but it can’t remove the skew and wobble so results can be disappointing at times.

There is a plugin for AE by The Foundry imaginatively called ‘Rolling Shutter’ that does adress this issue and supposedly removes the rolling shutter artifacting from footage in post. Afterwards, smoothcam would have a great time with it and work really well I think. I’ve seen some great examples of the Rolling Shutter plugin’s results, but then again, I’ve seen some absolutely jaw dropping work with Twixtor too, but due to it’s complicated parameters, never realised anything like it in my own experiences. Likewise I don’t know whether this rolling shutter plugin is an art in itself or whether anybody can plug it in, wack the footage in there and be skew and wobble free in a couple of clicks. I’d love to find out though, so if you get, let me know!

Good luck with your efforts Dave, see you round!

In your experience, what is the easiest way to stabilise the shot for handheld? Assuming no access to rails/grips.

I was going to run it thru FCP smoothcam, but didnt really want to make it better as the coverage really sucked.

It is really good to hear from you and I’m glad you are digging the site!

You are almost famous now, no? The Paragliding Video went crazy on the internet! Do people stop you in the street? Hahaha!

Anyway man, you still have my number, maybe you should give me a call someday when you are hitting up another spot and we can make a sequel?

Hope you have a great Christmas!

Yeah I saw Phil’s Skywalker Ranch vid. I have wanted one of those sliders for so long and never been able to justify the expenditure. There are bunch around, the one I was looking at ages ago was the IndiSlider. I think I will get one soon, I’m just not sure which one to buy or whether I should make one. Linear slides are really quite cheap.

Those timelapses are just movies shot in camera and sped up. I usually do my time lapses like that unless it’s a night time one and I need the longer shutter duration, in which case I use the timer. It saves a bit of mucking around in post. I have seen the panned, zoomed Time Lapses doing the rounds, could emulate it, but haven’t. It’s a little too Ken Burns for my liking. When I do use the Intervalometer I always shoot Small JPEG’s.

Happy Holidays to you too man! Merry Christmas and all that! I hope you have a good one!

Enrico

Happy holidays to ya.