Stabilizing a clip
Sometimes in the fast-paced world, production of pivotal shots may suffer a bit of shakiness that you want to smooth out in order to show it in your final work. The Stabilize behavior is all you need to make that happen.
Getting ready
Find a piece of footage that has a relative amount of shakiness in it. While Motion 5 can also work with clips with extreme amounts of shakiness, part of its solution is to scale up your clip to compensate. The more shaken the clip, the more scaling will take place. Create a new project based on the Frame Size, Frame Rate, and length of your clip. Import the clip into Motion using the File Browser or File | Import command.
How to do it...
Let's add the Stabilize behavior to our clip.
Make sure your playhead is at the beginning of your project. Select the clip in the Layers tab. Press Command + 2 to go to the Library. Go to Behaviors | Motion Tracking | Stabilize as shown in the following screenshot. Click on Apply at the top of the Library. The...
