Excluding motion from Warp Stabilize?

Is there any way to exclude motion from Warp Stabilize? It seems to be pickup motion from my talent. So when he nods his head, the scene wiggles up and down too.

There's a reason that the second paragraph of this post is as strongly worded as it is, complete with a whole sentence in emphatic italics:
"Chris and Trish Meyer review the Warp Stabilizer effect on the ProVideo Coalition website, as well as providing a very detailed and absolutely crucial set of video tutorials on Adobe TV. Please, watch these videos before using the Warp Stabilizer:"
If you watch the Meyers' videos, you'll have much more success using the Warp Stabilizer, including knowing how to hide motion from it.

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      var myName = myEffect.property("ADBE SubspaceStabilizer-0017").name;
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    I have some experience with warp stabilizer in After Effects.
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  • 5 things which should be improved in the Warp Stabilizer

    1. Performance.
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    This maybe okay if you still need much work to do in Premiere. But often, the next steps DEPEND on the stabilization and you have to WAIT and WAIT and WAIT...
    It's just painful to imagine that, running a machine with 8 cores, more than 8 times the amount of video material COULD be analyzed.
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    When using "stabilize only", the resulting frame, at least in Premiere Pro, has a HUGE "DC offset" sometimes. This is a term from music producing, but exactly fits in here. You can clearly see it when there are still images that shouldn't receive much of stabilization. They're somtimes shifted far out of the viewing frame, leaving big black borders, so you have to manually adjust the frame position to fit back into a "neutral" position. This could be resolved to let the whole correcting curve undergo something like a "low pass filter" which will try to keep the resulting frame SOMEHOW centered.
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    I'm considering to join the Creative Cloud, because unless I do this I don't expect to see any improvements in my old and out-dated Premiere PRO CS6...

    https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform to file a feature request... insert a reference to this message link

  • Warp Stabilizer Script Request

    There is an operation that is taking me looong looong time, and I would like to know if there is someone who can write me a script to make the operation faster, that would be fantastic !
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    I wasn't suggesting that stabilizing won't help your shots, I was suggesting that more care be taken in pre-production to save time and money. Any mistake made in production, any shortcut, like not taking the time to properly handle or mount the camera may, and usually does cost more in time and money to fix than it would have taken to do right in the first place. Even a tiny handy cam or DSLR can be held steady if you take a moment to brace yourself, attach a weight or even attach a small tripod that you use as a counter balance and mini steadycam to the camera.
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  • Possible to turn OFF "Rolling Shutter Ripple" correction in CS5.5 Warp Stabilizer?

    Is Rolling Shutter Ripple redcution on by default in CS5.5 Warp Stabilizer?  Can I turn it off?
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    Thanks Jim.
    The source stitched 176 frames for my test are about 1gb. So trying to get to the bottom of it without someone having to dl them (and it will take a while to put them up). The 8 frame version shows the same effect happening, just exaggerated. But its a fair call to assume maybe it would not happen with enough information to work with.
    The original http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7070604/full_ae_1080.mov I had tried at the time using detailed analysis as well to see if it fixed the issue, and the results were very similar.
    I'd also found that using subspace warp instead of PSR (position, scale rotation), or even just P (position) seemed to generate some additional warping there in the output, and certainly for my footage did not result in making it better.
    However, I have re-run the full footage starting from frames not a movie using detail analysis and subspace warp since you running that over the originally processed 1080 footage seemed to do a pretty good job.
    The results are here : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7070604/full_ae_1080_warp.mov?dl=1
    You can see the warp is really messing it up, and the zooming is not fixed. Left hand side easiest place to see it.
    Note I've found putting ?dl=1 on any of the links actually downloads them for anyone having issues with it simply playing in their browser. The way I am visiually checking any of these for issues (as many are at 1fps) is to load them into quicktime, change it to View, loop. Then In quicktime 7 holding FFWD. In quicktime 10 hitting forward until it runs at 8x. Looping at 8x is where you can really see the issue.
    The files I had not broken out seperately that are in the source files upload were the results in after effects just using the 8 frames. Here they are seperately.
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7070604/1080_rez_p.mov?dl=1
    Position only.
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7070604/1080_rez_psr.mov?dl=1
    Position scale rotate.
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7070604/1080_rez.mov?dl=1
    Unstablized.
    I presume even with subspace warp you get the same results or worse using these 8 frame files.
    If you ignore the extra warping/twisting in the new file, you have the same results as the original http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7070604/full_ae_1080.mov?dl=1
    played at 8x. The easiest place to see it is the mid left side where you can see it zooming in and out. The fact that it really only starts happening a 3rd the way through makes me think its simply not dealing with the changes in zoom, or the later pan changes in the source file. It wierd the photoshop processed version comes out fine though.
    I was really hoping it was a case of, "ah, I see why it can't deal with those 8 frames, it really needs a manual tracker/stablizer doing x,y,z" But of course I'd be even happier with a tweak to the automated warp stabilizer.
    If I do a 2nd run on the sample file http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7070604/full_ae_1080.mov I notice selecting P, or PSR does not fix it. Selecting Perspective or Subspace (which probably includes perspective) seems to go a long way and have a similar result.
    Leads me back to thinking selecting subspace on the original footage just warps it, selecting P or PSR fixes all but the zooming thing, and then reprocessing with perspective is tackling the persective in isolation which it could not effectively do before. I don't know if that is because you cannot select P&R without S scale. Or because AE's perspective adjustment cannot work effectively with images that have scale variences in them or ?
    I've now run the ouput from a frames start via P and PSR. Brought them back in and prosessed with subspace and P and PSR. Results seems to be no better. There is some special sauce here somewhere with the reprocessing. Maybe its the codec I am going out to in the middle, maybe its the aspect ratio, maybe its ???
    Might be time to u/l the full source files I guess.
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  • Warp Stabilizer progress status

    Hi,
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    Although it's easier (more convenient) to accomplish the mission in After Effects, you can do it in PrPro as well:
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    2. Within the newly  created nested sequence apply Garbage Matte onto the footage to separate the woman on the foreground. E.g. draw Eight-Point Garbage Matte around the woman.
    3. Create a Color Matte, pick e.g. R:7 G:7 B:9 to more or less match its colour to your footage background and drop this Color Matte above your footage with Garbage Matte.
    4. Copy Garbage Matte from the footage and paste onto the Color Matte, delete or disable Garbage Matte on the footage. Optionally apply Fast Blur effect onto the Color Matte and dabble with Blurriness value so as to soften (feather) Matte's edges, adjusting Garbage Matte points if necessary.
    5. Jump back to your master sequence and apply Warp Stabilizer onto the nested sequence, formerly your shaky footage. Set Stabilization to No Motion.
    6. When done, switch to your nested sequence, disable the Color Matte eyeball, switch back to the master sequence, enjoy.

  • Warp Stabilizer: How to Start and End Full Frame?

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    In the past when I wanted to stabilize a portion of a clip, I'd stabilize the part of it that I needed stabilized and then crop the non-stabilized part in to match the percentage that's scaled and then use the motion settings to sort of move the clip around to match the start or end frame that's stabilized. It's not perfect, but it's fairly seemless. Yeah, it would be nice to gradually de-stabilize something but for now, this is what we do on the rare occasion that we need to do it. Warp Stabilizer in After Effects is a bit more fully featured so maybe there's a way to do it there, I don't know.
    Good luck!

  • Can I export Warp Stabilizer Data?

    I have two identical video clips, they match frame for frame, however one of them is under exposed and is a lot darker. Therefore it is a lot harder for warp stablizer to work.
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    If you have identical footage then you either had a motion control camera, and even then it's highly unlikely to be exactly frame for frame unless the rig was very big, heavy and expensive and your actors were robots because anything moving in the scene would throw off the warp stabilizing, or the camera was locked down and there was nothing moving in the scene. There must be some differences in the shots or there would be no need to work on the one that is under exposed.
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  • Clips with warp stabilizer minimizes?

    Hi,
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    Rameez
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  • Warp Stabilizer glitch

    Hey guys,
    So a friend is having me color correct her footage for a project. She gave me her hard drive so I am directly editing from the video files on her drive (a transfer would take over five hours for all the videos).
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    Although it's easier (more convenient) to accomplish the mission in After Effects, you can do it in PrPro as well:
    1. Nest your shaky footage.
    2. Within the newly  created nested sequence apply Garbage Matte onto the footage to separate the woman on the foreground. E.g. draw Eight-Point Garbage Matte around the woman.
    3. Create a Color Matte, pick e.g. R:7 G:7 B:9 to more or less match its colour to your footage background and drop this Color Matte above your footage with Garbage Matte.
    4. Copy Garbage Matte from the footage and paste onto the Color Matte, delete or disable Garbage Matte on the footage. Optionally apply Fast Blur effect onto the Color Matte and dabble with Blurriness value so as to soften (feather) Matte's edges, adjusting Garbage Matte points if necessary.
    5. Jump back to your master sequence and apply Warp Stabilizer onto the nested sequence, formerly your shaky footage. Set Stabilization to No Motion.
    6. When done, switch to your nested sequence, disable the Color Matte eyeball, switch back to the master sequence, enjoy.

  • Warp Stabilizer automatically coming on

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  • Warp Stabilizer Stuck?

    I was trying to finalize a show and dropped the Warp Stabilizer into one of the clips.  Its about a 5 minute clip.   On my very fast computer with 16GB of memory it took 20 min to "analyze" and it has been "stabilizing" for 2 hours.  I tried getting out of the project to see if I could kill it off but when I reloaded it went right back to "stabilizing".  Is this normal?   From all the previews I knew it wasn't real time but if this is typical I can't imagine using this thing.
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    Trim a clip to 10 seconds and try that. If it takes 10 minutes, then you know you are stuck with a 60:1 ratio and you have decisions to make.
    Also, take a look at the video. If one part of it is really, really bad, you might want to exclude that part. Perhaps if you bumped the camera. That might be part of the problem.
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