I can only repeat what others have said already-this is a brilliant tutorial. It's well-planned, full of information and very clear. 10/10, thank you so much! I'll be sharing this.
Not really doing a hyper timelapse, however this tutorial does help me in stabilizing footage where there are people walking back and forth, therefore requires multiple tracking on the same footage. Thank you so much.
Thanks so much for explaining the stabilization techniques in such detail. Took me a while to find smth like this that actually explains the Tracker's Stabilize Motion feature.
Bravo!! Started the video assuming all hope was lost and that the tree had ruined the hyperlapse, but you moved forward and provided not just one but three potential solutions to stabilize the footage! Also appreciated the detail review -- felt like I was in the editing room with you! Many thanks.
Hi cameratest! One word, "GOLD"!!! I can't wait to try this when I get back home from Thanksgiving. Thank you so much for making these lessons and sharing them. Once again, your lesson kicks the door open for amazing possibilities for stabilization of any scenes, especially hyperlapses. I'm so excited about this. I shall report back after applying your advance techniques. Thanks!
You did a really awesome tutorial, clear and full of skills... I'm studying and training for hyperlapse, but it takes much time, both shooting and editing!
I am planning to do my own hyperlapse and this tutorial helps me alot from planning my shots for an easy stabilization process afterwards. Thank you for sharing! 👍
When I started shooting hyperlapses, I used to carry my tripod everywhere, spend time in setting it up (gets tricky with uneven surfaces) for each shot and then realize that I didn't have enough frames for it to be a good hyperlapse. Either the light had gone by that time or due to some other constraints. You have made it easier for me to now shoot handheld and later fix everything in post. Thank you so much for sharing some amazing techniques with crisp and clear information. So, this is what I do now. Hope it helps some people. 1. Shoot handheld. 2. Import my frames into LRTimelapse and fix the luminance flicker (using Lightroom). I am now sure that my clip won't produce flicker while due to difference in exposure values across images. An amazing tutorial here: th-cam.com/video/YLtyUi-tK2Y/w-d-xo.html on fixing exposure using LRTimelapse. 3. Save the changes in source files itself and import into Adobe AE 4. Apply the amazing techniques shared by Adam for stabilizing the hyperlapse and finally crop and scale to produce the magic. Once again, I am really grateful to you to take time in sharing the valuable techniques for stabilization. I believe it will help many people like me. Cheers.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing your skills, I really appreciate. LITTLE TIPS --> If you can level your camera during the shot it's better, since the tricky part in post is mainly rotation. So, if you make sure when you shoot that you stabilize rotation, you will only have to handle position stab in post, it's faster, cleaner and easier :)
thanks for sharing your knowledge! This is a very well done tutorial, I've seen a couple of tutorials about stabilizing a hyperlapse, but yours is the first where you describes how to link the tracking points, you have helped me a lot with your tutorial!
Adam this is a great video. Have you created a tutorial on stabilizing Drone footage from and Interval shoot. I have a P4P and Inspire 2 X5S and both gimbal have images that jump around from a resting position. It only gets worse when you fly. I am going to try these techniques to see if I can get rid of those dancing building when using Warp Stabilizer. Anyway, thank you for creating this tutorial it is very helpful.
Hey Adam, just finished studying this video by writing down your steps and trying them out with some hyperlapse I couldn't finish before. I loved this video because is full of usefull information and the info delivery is super consistent throughout it. But since it's made with CS6, I'm encountering some small differences between your workflow and mine. My AE CC keeps puting keyframes between frames and I have to do every step twice because of it. I can't find a way to disable this 'feature' so it's kind of frustrating. Hope you are still online here, because I could really use a pro hand like yours here. Thank you, from Argentina!
Thanks so much. This helped me a lot. I was wondering though what do you do if you have a shot that doesn't have any two constant vertical points throughout? How would you track that?
Great tutorial. Do you have any tips on stabilising a hyperlapse that is moving forward? I get mixed results especially when there's lots of foreground movement (ie people)
This was awesome! Thank you! What if you have a hyperlapse that dosent rotate around something? But just a street that i walked through? Do i only use the Position only then? Lets say its the supreme court, but u are only walking away from it, keeping it in the center?
You'll need to correct for rotation variations from image to image somehow. You can do position and rotation stabilization or if you're lucky maybe warp stabilizer will fix it for you.
Yea okay! Hmm. So i find a horisontal line in the background that it leads up to - to use for the roatation? Would be so awesome if you could do a hyperlapse guide, from walking down a street or so.
Hello! Once again I want to say thank you for the best lesson on stabilizing hyperlamps! I have some questions for you, help please ... I shoot mostly with a wide-angle lens, so I do not have vertical lines, the picture is difficult to stabilize. I make a photo using a monopod, there is no electronic level, just a bubble mounted in the viewfinder. I tried different stabilization methods proposed by you. And tracker by position, then tracker by rotation, then stabilizer. And the tracker by position and rotation together, then the zero object, adjusting its position and rotation, then a new sub-composition and its stabilizing VARP. The result in each case is unpredictable. Sometimes it turns out perfectly, sometimes you can sit all evening, and do not get a good result, the picture shakes. In general, there is stabilization, but insufficient, the picture shakes. Something I do not understand. Even the questions can not be formulated correctly, it seems everything is clear, but the result is unstable. Did you have hyperlaps that you could not stabilize? I saw in your lesson, you changed the position of the anchor point. Why was this decision made? Why was it moved to the top of the roof? When using the third method, there were cases when stabilization by rotation, position, zero-object and stabilizer did not help and had to be done manually? How to choose the right point 1 and point 2 when stabilizing by position and rotation, then to less correct? Looks like I'm asking too many questions ....
That would be ideal because it's probably toward the center of the image, appears in every frame, and is likely to be a focal point of the hyperlapse, but it doesn't have to be that point.
Thanks for the tutorial, this is very helpful! I just had one question. I am trying to track position and rotation at the same time, and like you said it's ideal to have both tracking points on a vertical line. What is there is no vertical line anywhere on my footage?
I have the same problem. Im still getting an okay result though. I tried finding something in the picture that had somewhat a vertical line. But hard.. As there is no 100% vertical line in my project.
Hello Great tutorial, I have a question, When add a second position tracker and overlap the keyframes as you mentioned, when I apply the tracking data to the second tracker the entire position shifts, It does not track to the same point that was selected in tracker 1? once i play the sequence the second set of track points slowly drifts off the main point of tracker 1? Any thoughts on this? Thanks
I created a hyperlapse doing a semi-circle around a building. I applied WS in premiere pro and looks pretty good except the building is slightly expanding upwards/downwards as I move around. Image an accordion type of effect. I'd like to use AE (not familiar with it) and utilize motion tracking. Seems like 'scale' could be the problem. What's your suggestion? thanks
I realize this is super old now, but there is a way to use warp stabilizer without the scale. The catch is, it's quite a bit of work. If you follow the steps to convert warp stabilizer into keyframes, you can select just the posistion and rotation properties to link to.
True. Even in CS6, you can hack the warp stabilizer to convert all of its data into keyframes then choose only the properties you want. Check out this tut sometime: cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-get-better-control-of-warp-stabilization--ae-25841 Had to use this crazy workaround to stabilize some 240fps I was ramping through, although I might have gained some insight on a different workflow from your analysis here. Thanks for breaking it down.
I have a certain problem, using position and rotate method, I create a second composition, but when I scale to 4K for instance, it reintroduces some of the shakiness, have any idea why? Same issue when doing null object. My tracker point 1 is way off center.
+Havok The JPEG sequence feature is sensitive to how the files are named. Try naming the files starting with a serial number so it can detect the sequence. If you start with a date, for instance, it doesn't detect a sequence of images.
Could you maybe have drawn two imaginary lines extending from the slopes of the roof and guess that their intersection point is the tip of the roof? Or does it not work like that because it'll be tracking whatever's blocking the view instead?
nice tutorial... just wondering what size your Jpeg images are? and how many may have been in the batch you imported. I'm struggling to get anywhere near the processing speed that you are doing in the video, such as with preview of the stabilization, and I am running 16GB RAM 2.8Ghz i5 Mac Mini. The files are feeding of the SSD HD, same location as AE. Any help would be much appreciated :)
+Andrew Clelland I was using 18MP JPG files. The computer I was editing with has a Core i7-4930K 6-core processor, 32GB RAM, and a solid state hard drive. I have seen some info online about configuring your computer to maximize speed in AE. You might want to read about that and see if you can get some improvements.
+cameratest Thanks... I kind of assumed you have more power :) I found the settings to allocate more RAM to the stabilization App, and now seeing how it goes. I have also resized my JPG down to around 6MB each rather than working with Tiff and full res JPG. I have not used AE before, but this time lapse I am building has very little landscape detail and much moving clouds so PS CC stacking does not work, and FCPX stabilization also is not good. I'll keep at it :)
Great tutorial , very useful. but i have two questions : 1. i don't see the anchor point , in order to change it . I use after effects cc2015 on mac 2. the preview does not work for the whole sequence. for example for 7 seconds of video , the preview is running only for approx. 2 seconds
Ichim Marius 1. Sometimes the anchor point is hard to see on top of a busy image. Try temporarily turning down the opacity on your image to find the anchor point. 2. Is your composition at least 7 sec long? Is your work area longer than 2 seconds? I'd have to see your screen to determine what the problem is.
cameratest Thanks for the advices . it seems that i made something wrong to that sequence . I've loaded another sequence and and now i see the anchor point . The preview problem is still visible , for the moment .
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I can only repeat what others have said already-this is a brilliant tutorial. It's well-planned, full of information and very clear. 10/10, thank you so much! I'll be sharing this.
macronencer Thanks! Glad it helps you!
perfect....just perfect...I can not thank you enough man
this is a brilliant tutorial
Another repeat...-this is a brilliant tutorial. It's well-planned, full of information and very clear. 10000/10, thank you so much! :))
The easiest things are the hardest. You made it simple and understandable. Thank You for helping people getting better in their creativity.
This is brilliant. Just what I needed!
Not really doing a hyper timelapse, however this tutorial does help me in stabilizing footage where there are people walking back and forth, therefore requires multiple tracking on the same footage. Thank you so much.
Thank you for all the time and effort putting in those tutorial, simply the best i've ever watched.
Thanks so much for explaining the stabilization techniques in such detail. Took me a while to find smth like this that actually explains the Tracker's Stabilize Motion feature.
the bible of stabilization!
One of the best tut I've seen. Great content, technique, speed and vocal. Thank you!
Bravo!! Started the video assuming all hope was lost and that the tree had ruined the hyperlapse, but you moved forward and provided not just one but three potential solutions to stabilize the footage! Also appreciated the detail review -- felt like I was in the editing room with you! Many thanks.
+Jeffrey T Glad I could help!
Hi cameratest!
One word, "GOLD"!!! I can't wait to try this when I get back home from Thanksgiving. Thank you so much for making these lessons and sharing them.
Once again, your lesson kicks the door open for amazing possibilities for stabilization of any scenes, especially hyperlapses. I'm so excited about this. I shall report back after applying your advance techniques.
Thanks!
Thanks and good luck!
wow..yet to find a better tut than this...thanks for your patience and dedication...this is really informative.
You did a really awesome tutorial, clear and full of skills... I'm studying and training for hyperlapse, but it takes much time, both shooting and editing!
This is the best lesson on stabilizing hyperlamps, which I saw!
I am planning to do my own hyperlapse and this tutorial helps me alot from planning my shots for an easy stabilization process afterwards. Thank you for sharing! 👍
This is best of the best tutorial videos I have ever watched. Thank you so much sir!
When I started shooting hyperlapses, I used to carry my tripod everywhere, spend time in setting it up (gets tricky with uneven surfaces) for each shot and then realize that I didn't have enough frames for it to be a good hyperlapse. Either the light had gone by that time or due to some other constraints.
You have made it easier for me to now shoot handheld and later fix everything in post. Thank you so much for sharing some amazing techniques with crisp and clear information.
So, this is what I do now. Hope it helps some people.
1. Shoot handheld.
2. Import my frames into LRTimelapse and fix the luminance flicker (using Lightroom). I am now sure that my clip won't produce flicker while due to difference in exposure values across images. An amazing tutorial here: th-cam.com/video/YLtyUi-tK2Y/w-d-xo.html on fixing exposure using LRTimelapse.
3. Save the changes in source files itself and import into Adobe AE
4. Apply the amazing techniques shared by Adam for stabilizing the hyperlapse and finally crop and scale to produce the magic.
Once again, I am really grateful to you to take time in sharing the valuable techniques for stabilization. I believe it will help many people like me. Cheers.
monopod is the way to go
THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing your skills, I really appreciate.
LITTLE TIPS --> If you can level your camera during the shot it's better, since the tricky part in post is mainly rotation.
So, if you make sure when you shoot that you stabilize rotation, you will only have to handle position stab in post, it's faster, cleaner and easier :)
You saved my life and my job, Sir. A lot of thanks from Seoul, South Korea.
PERFECT Tutorial dude, exactly what I was looking for. That null object trick was the tip I needed to sort out my Hyperlapsing problems ;-)
thanks for sharing your knowledge! This is a very well done tutorial, I've seen a couple of tutorials about stabilizing a hyperlapse, but yours is the first where you describes how to link the tracking points, you have helped me a lot with your tutorial!
03:41 Motion Tracker 1
06:48 Motion Tracker 2
09:23 Apply Motion Tracker
12:25 Rotation Stabilize
19:05 Anchor Point
20:50 Warp Stabiliser
23:00 Composition Resolution
25:20 2nd Technique
Question : Is it possible to hide previous tracking points ? Because having too many on the screen make sit very complicated...
best tutorial on video stabilization i've ever seen. thank you very much!
Still watching in 2018, cheers man this was really helpful!!! Awesome job!
MVP!! Thank you very much! these tricks are mind blowing!
6 year later this tutorial is really helpful!
The only thing bothering me is that one dislike somebody gave to your video! Great tutorial, thank you!
This is soooo great! so much information! thank you a lot! :)
Great tutorial! Has given me the confidence to give this a try myself!
I would like to give this video 100 out of 10. Crystal Clear information and explanation. Thanks a lot and keep it up buddy. :)
Thanks! Glad to hear it helped!
Amazing tutorial, especially appreciate that amount of time you put in this
ABSOLUTELY GREAT.
Another great tutorial man thanks
Very good tutorial!! Thanks!
Phenomenally useful video.
Really needed this
@cameratest what technique do you recommend the most? 1 or 2?
Great job buddy..... Helped a lot.
Great tutorial, thank you very much
You just saved my day... Thanku soo much..
Great tutorial! Thank you so much!
This is extremely helpful, thank you!
i watch this every time i need advanced tracking
This is so great and clear, thank you so much!
Really great tutorial!
You did a great tutorial. congratulations
great job to explain stabilisation!!! 👍😉
Thanks master this was great !!
Best tutorial I've seen on stabilising a hyperlapse. Any tips for hyperlapsing with GoPros?
+Mark Duffy whoa gopros? The lens distortion is insane to stabilise I feel. You might do better with a mobile phone
Great tips. This was super helpful
thankyou so much dude!! you're the best!!
Wow. Just wow.
Thank you for the tut!
this is so cool, man! why have you stopped making new tutorials? and why don't you share your hyperlapse portfolio?
Awesome. great tutorial
Well done!
great tutorial... thank you so much :)
Super tuto, merci!
So helpful!
wow! well done
Thank you !
Adam this is a great video. Have you created a tutorial on stabilizing Drone footage from and Interval shoot. I have a P4P and Inspire 2 X5S and both gimbal have images that jump around from a resting position. It only gets worse when you fly. I am going to try these techniques to see if I can get rid of those dancing building when using Warp Stabilizer. Anyway, thank you for creating this tutorial it is very helpful.
Hey Adam, just finished studying this video by writing down your steps and trying them out with some hyperlapse I couldn't finish before. I loved this video because is full of usefull information and the info delivery is super consistent throughout it.
But since it's made with CS6, I'm encountering some small differences between your workflow and mine. My AE CC keeps puting keyframes between frames and I have to do every step twice because of it. I can't find a way to disable this 'feature' so it's kind of frustrating.
Hope you are still online here, because I could really use a pro hand like yours here.
Thank you, from Argentina!
Great thank you so much!
This is phenomenal I should have seen it when I shoot my Europe time lapse last year. Meanwhile can same be done in Light room?
It's very good. Thank you. :)
Thanks so much. This helped me a lot. I was wondering though what do you do if you have a shot that doesn't have any two constant vertical points throughout? How would you track that?
thank you man!
Thanks a lot dude
THANK YOU
Great tutorial. Do you have any tips on stabilising a hyperlapse that is moving forward? I get mixed results especially when there's lots of foreground movement (ie people)
Thank you it's great
thank you!
This was awesome! Thank you!
What if you have a hyperlapse that dosent rotate around something? But just a street that i walked through?
Do i only use the Position only then? Lets say its the supreme court, but u are only walking away from it, keeping it in the center?
You'll need to correct for rotation variations from image to image somehow. You can do position and rotation stabilization or if you're lucky maybe warp stabilizer will fix it for you.
Yea okay! Hmm. So i find a horisontal line in the background that it leads up to - to use for the roatation?
Would be so awesome if you could do a hyperlapse guide, from walking down a street or so.
thankyou very much. help me too much
Hello!
Once again I want to say thank you for the best lesson on stabilizing hyperlamps! I have some questions for you, help please ...
I shoot mostly with a wide-angle lens, so I do not have vertical lines, the picture is difficult to stabilize. I make a photo using a monopod, there is no electronic level, just a bubble mounted in the viewfinder. I tried different stabilization methods proposed by you. And tracker by position, then tracker by rotation, then stabilizer. And the tracker by position and rotation together, then the zero object, adjusting its position and rotation, then a new sub-composition and its stabilizing VARP. The result in each case is unpredictable. Sometimes it turns out perfectly, sometimes you can sit all evening, and do not get a good result, the picture shakes. In general, there is stabilization, but insufficient, the picture shakes. Something I do not understand. Even the questions can not be formulated correctly, it seems everything is clear, but the result is unstable. Did you have hyperlaps that you could not stabilize? I saw in your lesson, you changed the position of the anchor point. Why was this decision made? Why was it moved to the top of the roof? When using the third method, there were cases when stabilization by rotation, position, zero-object and stabilizer did not help and had to be done manually? How to choose the right point 1 and point 2 when stabilizing by position and rotation, then to less correct? Looks like I'm asking too many questions ....
mate.. THNXS A LOT!!!!
Do you suggest that tracking point for xy position is the same I picked while taking photos? Great training video! I wish you all the best!
That would be ideal because it's probably toward the center of the image, appears in every frame, and is likely to be a focal point of the hyperlapse, but it doesn't have to be that point.
thanks for help me out
Thanks for the tutorial, this is very helpful!
I just had one question. I am trying to track position and rotation at the same time, and like you said it's ideal to have both tracking points on a vertical line.
What is there is no vertical line anywhere on my footage?
I have the same problem. Im still getting an okay result though. I tried finding something in the picture that had somewhat a vertical line. But hard.. As there is no 100% vertical line in my project.
Hello Great tutorial, I have a question, When add a second position tracker and overlap the keyframes as you mentioned, when I apply the tracking data to the second tracker the entire position shifts, It does not track to the same point that was selected in tracker 1? once i play the sequence the second set of track points slowly drifts off the main point of tracker 1? Any thoughts on this? Thanks
I created a hyperlapse doing a semi-circle around a building. I applied WS in premiere pro and looks pretty good except the building is slightly expanding upwards/downwards as I move around. Image an accordion type of effect. I'd like to use AE (not familiar with it) and utilize motion tracking. Seems like 'scale' could be the problem. What's your suggestion? thanks
Hi, many thanks for detailed video.. Which Editing software you use?
+Mukul Sathe Adobe After Effects CS6
thanks alot
I realize this is super old now, but there is a way to use warp stabilizer without the scale. The catch is, it's quite a bit of work. If you follow the steps to convert warp stabilizer into keyframes, you can select just the posistion and rotation properties to link to.
You can do it with After Effects CC but not in CS6. In CC there is a checkbox that says "preserve scale" or something along those lines.
True. Even in CS6, you can hack the warp stabilizer to convert all of its data into keyframes then choose only the properties you want. Check out this tut sometime: cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-get-better-control-of-warp-stabilization--ae-25841
Had to use this crazy workaround to stabilize some 240fps I was ramping through, although I might have gained some insight on a different workflow from your analysis here. Thanks for breaking it down.
That's genius, thanks for sharing
thanks!
I have a certain problem, using position and rotate method, I create a second composition, but when I scale to 4K for instance, it reintroduces some of the shakiness, have any idea why? Same issue when doing null object. My tracker point 1 is way off center.
Sick when you keep in mind that this tutorial was made in 2014
Hello, when I import the images, it only imports one? I do click on JPEG Sequence
+Havok The JPEG sequence feature is sensitive to how the files are named. Try naming the files starting with a serial number so it can detect the sequence. If you start with a date, for instance, it doesn't detect a sequence of images.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Could you maybe have drawn two imaginary lines extending from the slopes of the roof and guess that their intersection point is the tip of the roof? Or does it not work like that because it'll be tracking whatever's blocking the view instead?
3:00 I hear ya!
Feature request?
Of course you can just apply the stabilization and remove the scaling key-frames afterwards...
TOP ! TOP ! TOP ! Thx
i dont have the "tracker panel" in the window tab. please help. thank you
thxgreat tutorial
nice tutorial... just wondering what size your Jpeg images are? and how many may have been in the batch you imported. I'm struggling to get anywhere near the processing speed that you are doing in the video, such as with preview of the stabilization, and I am running 16GB RAM 2.8Ghz i5 Mac Mini. The files are feeding of the SSD HD, same location as AE. Any help would be much appreciated :)
+Andrew Clelland I was using 18MP JPG files. The computer I was editing with has a Core i7-4930K 6-core processor, 32GB RAM, and a solid state hard drive. I have seen some info online about configuring your computer to maximize speed in AE. You might want to read about that and see if you can get some improvements.
+cameratest Thanks... I kind of assumed you have more power :) I found the settings to allocate more RAM to the stabilization App, and now seeing how it goes. I have also resized my JPG down to around 6MB each rather than working with Tiff and full res JPG. I have not used AE before, but this time lapse I am building has very little landscape detail and much moving clouds so PS CC stacking does not work, and FCPX stabilization also is not good. I'll keep at it :)
The Preserve Scale option is available in the Advanced section...
Great tutorial , very useful. but i have two questions :
1. i don't see the anchor point , in order to change it . I use after effects cc2015 on mac
2. the preview does not work for the whole sequence. for example for 7 seconds of video , the preview is running only for approx. 2 seconds
Ichim Marius 1. Sometimes the anchor point is hard to see on top of a busy image. Try temporarily turning down the opacity on your image to find the anchor point. 2. Is your composition at least 7 sec long? Is your work area longer than 2 seconds? I'd have to see your screen to determine what the problem is.
cameratest Thanks for the advices . it seems that i made something wrong to that sequence . I've loaded another sequence and and now i see the anchor point . The preview problem is still visible , for the moment .