Learning to Stabilize

From the audience feedback from the first draft, one of the most apparent problems was the shakiness of some of the clips, and so I will stabilise the footage to see what effect it has on the piece before the 'final first draft'.

Using Premiere Pro, I could usually use a tool called 'Warp Stabiliser', however, the schools version of Premiere Pro is CS4, which doesn't have this feature.

Instead, I'm going to start learning the basics of After Effects as I try to add this effect. This is from an Adobe forums, where someone has the same issue as me: owning CS4 and so no tool. Taverino says that it crops the clip which may have negative effects on the film, however I will give it a go and then clarify with my team if they wish to keep this.

To learn how to do this I am looking at the Adobe Forums and Youtube videos

This was a good opportunity to get to grips with Adobe After Effects, which will allow me to develop my editing skills and add special effects that I couldn't do on Premiere. 

I chose the longest and shakiest clip to see just how effective the stabilising is, and to see if I should apply it to our whole film.

To compare the stabilisation vs stabilised I have created a side-by-side comparison, with one side being the basic clips, and the right side being the clips with the added colour correction so see how it would look in our actual film.