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[-] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

I wonder how they stabilised the video.

Rotate the video at a constant rate about a point until the rocket hits turbulence/has a change of direction and then repeat?

[-] cygon@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's a standard feature in nearly all common video editors (i.e. DaVinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere).

Usually, stabilization goes over all video frames and tries to find image transformations (rotation + translation + zoom) that make a frame match as closely as possible with the previous frame. That's an oversimplified explanation, but from a user point-of-view, these tools are mature enough to be applied with just a few clicks.

This video is definitely the result of that, as, whoever did it, didn't even bother to insert a cut when the feed switches between left side and right side camera, thus making the stabilization spazz out momentarily.

[-] Turun@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago

Where do you see the camera switch side? The fin on which the camera is mounted moves every now and then, but I think we only ever see the perspective of one camera.

[-] cygon@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

You're right, it doesn't. I could have sworn I saw the opposite fin for a few seconds yesterday, but I must have been mistaken.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

There used to be a great subreddit for image stabilisations, always enjoyed seeing stuff from there and people would sometimes go into detail about the tools and techniques they used .

There probably still is, but there used to be too.

[-] cygon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I loved the stabilized bigfoot. Suddenly the supposed ape showed very human feet and heel strike.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Most advanced video compositors/editors have stabilization features. What you do is you give the program a couple of reference points that you know aren't moving, and the program will automatically track those points over time

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