Image stabilization degrades pic quality

I ran Image Stabilization on a few clips and found that it degrades the picture quality, even after unticking the stabilization box to disable the stabilization effect. Does Image Stabilization operate on a "lossy" basis?

Hi
Does Image Stabilization operate on a "lossy" basis?
YES - there are no other way to do this in after hand.
When recording in Camera
• Optical imagestabilization - is loss less
• Electronic/Digital - change the picture size and digitally follow it on the optical-chip
resulting in less pixles used = Less sharpness
When editing
• The image is enlarged to keep shakes inside frame = Less pixles is used = Less sharpness
If You un-select and then change size back to 100% then Your clip should be same
or very close to original.
By changing size - one can let the shakiness be more or less noticable with more or less
quality loss.
Yours Bengt W

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