To keep the overall camera motion but to smooth out sharp bumps and kicks, do the following:
| 1. | Find a shot that has some camera shake in it and select Image > Read to load it. |
| 2. | Select Furnace > F_Steadiness to apply F_Steadiness, and view its output. |
You will see the following banner in the overlay:
No valid key framed analysis found, please press Analyse
| 3. | In the Advanced F_Steadiness controls, make sure Mode has been set to Smooth. |
| 4. | Click on the Analyse button. |
F_Steadiness will now start analyzing each frame in the shot, figuring out the smoothing corner pin and writing it as key frames to the corner pin parameters, Bottom Left, Bottom Right, Top Left, and Top Right.
After a brief pause (while F_Steadiness calculates the transforms in the frame range), F_Steadiness will update the timeline and you will see the steadied image render in the viewer.
If at any point you interrupt the analysis, the pins it has calculated until that point will be retained.
| 5. | Play or scrub through the stabilized frames. |
| 6. | If you want to make the result smoother, increase the Smoothing parameter in the Advanced parameter group and the corner pin will be recalculated immediately to give a smoother shot. You don’t need to re-analyze the sequence if you do this; as F_Steadiness has kept the raw inter-frame transforms cached away, all it needs to do is re-write the keys for the average smoothing pin. |