Apple HQ / iMovie ‘09 Video Stabilization Test
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I recently visited Apple’s Headquarters in Cupertino, CA. I took my Creative Vado HD with me and shot this clip.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have any kind of stabilization mechanism, so it came out quite shaky. It made for a perfect sample to test against iMovie ’09’s new stabilization feature. I was quite impressed with the results.
If you don’t believe there’s much of a difference, keep an eye on the tip of the green 1 throughout the duration of each version. The panning is much more smooth after the effect is applied.
I uploaded this video directly through iMovie ‘09 and am not too pleased with how it looks here on YouTube. I decided to export the video with default Apple TV settings and upload the same test – since iMovie ‘09 does not support YouTube HD export options.
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4 Comments
hector
February 9th, 2009
at 9:48am
pretty cool lol
Connor Coghlan
February 9th, 2009
at 12:22pm
Wow, very impressive. It’s incredible how much smoother that is… Very nice.
Mick Hamblen
February 9th, 2009
at 1:18pm
Andy Ihnatko also does a comparison test on his site
http://ihnatko.com/index.php/2009/02/06/captain-video/
Luke
February 9th, 2009
at 1:45pm
Wow, you can clearly see the improvement in the stabilization. This makes me want to get a Mac, just so I could use this handy feature in iMovie ‘09.