Warp Stabilizer takes ages

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I'm trying to use warp stabilizer on a gopro clip and it takes forever. The Analizing in background (step 1 of 2)" message has been up for an hour now. The clip is 12 minutes, 2 gig, 1920*1080 60fps.

My machine is a 3 year old 27" Imac with a quad core. 16 gig ram.

Is it normal that it takes this long? I need to stabilize 8 of these clips.. it will take more then a day at this speed.

Is there a faster plugin for this?
 
Yup. Sounds about right.

And since you're at 60 frames - that's like 24 minutes of 30 frames.

Always cut your clip into smaller pieces if there are areas that don't require stabilization.

I don't know of any plug-in that does stabilization. Maybe someone else might.
 
Damn.. thats unfortunate for me. I really need to stabilize it all.

There must be some plugins for this? Or might it be better to stabilize it with a plugin in after effects first?
 
Did you apply the warp stabilizer on the whole 12 min clip? Then yes, it can take ages. And I'm really sceptical about you achieving good results with that.

Warp stabilizer is not a magical tool. It doesn't do wonders. It works to smooth out camera movements, to get rid of judder and improve shaky footage. It works best on short clips or shot pieces of long clips. Just saying, I'm not sure what kind of footage you applied it to but most of the clips I apply the WS to are 5-10 secs in length. The analysing step is by far the longest step though. The actual stabilizing itself takes much shorter.

Hope this helps.
 
The clip is from a boat, the GoPro is shooting a sonar and when the boat is running the GoPro is shaking. I need to stabilize it. Maybe Warp stabilizer isn't the best tool for this.

Since the camera is mounted and I have points on the sonar that I could use as keys. Maybe the best way is a tool that tracks the camera movement? Any ideas?
 
Using motion tracking in AE is an option, but by the time you're done it won't necessarily be faster. But it might be a better looking result.

There is no easy or quick fix for shaky footage. And if there was a plug-in, it wouldn't be any faster than Warp Stabilizer.
It's the 60P that's really killin' you here.
Set it to go at the end of the day and it'll be ready in the morning - like processing RAW footage.
 
Alright, I'm trying to track it in AE now and it seems to work better. I looked at the footage I tried to stabilize in Premiere earlier and it didnt look good tbh.

When exporting media from AE to Premiere, and maybe even Premiere->AE->Premiere. Do I just use uncompressed? Wont the files be even larger then the original then? Was a long time since I worked like this.. dont really remember the workflow
 
Oops, yeah. They'll be enormous.

Start in PP and right click on the clip and select "link to after effects project" or whatever it says. That way PP is just using AE as a processor and you don't have to do any extra rendering.

Google up a tutorial on how to do that so you don't miss any check boxes or anything. It's really pretty simple.
 
I gave up pretty much on warp stabilizer and use Mercalli...however I still end up with a lot of 'jello' in the 3d Space. Much faster but not sure iff the results are as good as warp stabilizer. I think the pros prbly use Nuke or something (which I have as a 3d student, but it's so complicated does your head in!) i.e. a lot of 3d tracking involved. Note I've only used warp and Mercalli on vids from my galaxy note v1, which pretty much needs it (for my home vids)...Mercalli's batch stablization is great...but ideally you need to tweak each clip. Warp was just too slow for me...

Edit: prbly best to stabilize your footage in the first place (back in the day I bought the first canon hv20, then hv30 hdv cam, and learned to use 'badly' an el-cheapo steadycam from bombay)...tripods and monopods also work! And of course 3-axis gimbal things if you throw yourself on the latest craze...:beer:
 
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