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Warp Stabilizer

Warp Stabilizer

- [Instructor] A handheld camera often records video with an undesirable shake. The best way to shoot stable footage is by using a tripod or a camera gimbal. But if you don't have one, one way to fix it in post is to use warp stabilization in after effects. This effect helps to remove camera shake and can be used to insert layers and to shaky footage as we'll see here. In the second composition I've got some footage of a shaky handheld camera looking over the city. One thing to note about warp stabilizer is that the severity of the camera shake will dictate how much can be smooth. It's not a magic bullet for all shots, but it's great for smoothing out small jitters in handheld footage such as this. First of all, let's select our footage and we'll come up here to effect and under distort, you can find here at the bottom warp stabilizer, you can also right click on your layer and under track and stabilize warp…

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