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How SteadyHand Works: Step 6: Trim the Edges |
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After the video has been shifted to the best position, the edges are exposed. In the previous web page, the frame was shifted down, to the right and rotated a little.
SteadyHand will default to 5% or 10% border depending on the “Motion Correction” setting (“Strong” gives the 10% crop border). Using the “Target Window Settings” within “Custom Settings,” you can override this to any cropping window.
Johnny’s Helpful Hint: I find this “trim” function a very handy tool even when I’m not steadying. Sometimes, it’s to get rid of something in the video (that power tower in the background), or sometimes, I just want a smaller video file and I don’t need the whole scene (maybe to email to Grandma B Gooder). By trimming away some of the video, I can shrink the video file without losing details in a down-zoom. To crop without any steadying, I set the Custom Settings to a do-nothing setting. In theory, I should set all the corrections to zero, but unfortunately SteadyHand sees this as an error and rejects it. To make SteadyHand happy and still have no visible effect, I set everything to “0” except Zoom = 200 milliseconds. Zoom rarely comes into play in a normal video, and I don’t mind it being smoothed out a little bit!
Optionally, if you don’t want the zoom, you can choose to keep it smaller (less space on disk, too). You can even tell steady to leave the edges jagged like the top image. This can come in handy for extreme cases where the action is too severe and I don’t want to trim as much as would be required. That’s the last of the 6 steps to a steady video. Simple, yet amazing results!
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