Cool effect. Is this extreme rolling shutter?

Ryan Patrick O'Hara

Ryan Patrick O'Hara

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Watch at 4:40.

It looks like rolling shutter, but Richard Hammond is not really effected. I like the effect. I think it could have some potential given the right circumstances in storytelling.

Reminds me of a more realistic "That 70's Show" trippiness. Haha.
 
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whut up ryan, I noticed this too when I saw it the other day on reddit and I have to agree its a waaaaay cool effect
but it does not belong in this vid.

It was distracting and made it hard for me to concentrate on the speaker. Belongs in a sci fi drama or something and used at the right time
 
It's a really interesting effect. You could definitely do some interesting thing with it - I agree it has no place in this video though.
 
It is definitely from using "warp stabilizer" found in Adobe Premiere or After Effects.

That effect is what happens if you don't change the option under Stablization -> Method from the default of "subspace warp" to something like "position" which works pretty good for just smoothing out a slight shakey camera.
 
The correction appears even more pronounced than AE's Warp Stabilizer, but I cannot think of any other corrector that gives off this unnecessary effect.

At any rate, it is FULL of terrible correction. Just look at 1:23 - and Richard at the door at 1:40 - for some less-obvious examples (there were tons of problems earlier in the video too, but there isn't any point in listing them all). It looks terrible - someone shot most of this handheld without a shoulder rig; probably with nothing else other than IS to assist them. Someone should have used Mercalli, at least. I'm surprised some of the zoom shots were not subject to rolling shutter skew either.

The onboard shots in the car (beginning 2:46) are also badly corrected, with adaptive crop. Granted, they are using rolling-shutter prone GoPros, but the team on Top Gear has used them before with much better results - and fixed crop.

4:35 was inexcusable.

Admittedly, 2:33 is a very nice shot for composition, but I'd bet purely by accident. The team that did this video just isn't that concerned with perfection. Thankfully for them, the story makes up for it (but they won't necessarily be that lucky next time).

-Kurt
 
It's pretty funny because it looks like a backdrop that was printed on vinyl, put behind these people, and then they let it flap in the breeze. Although, yeah, it probably is some sort of strange stablizer.
 
How about an attempt to eliminate flash blast from stills. On 4:04, that would be the time for some stills for the girl getting a teeshirt from the guy, etc. On the 1:23 shot, the guy getting out of the car.
 
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