u/UndefeatedRival

How to eliminate breathing motion in the video?

I needed to get an extended video clip of a still scene, a few minutes long, while keeping my hands free, and I couldn’t use a tripod. I had the phone on a chest harness, zoomed in. The phone‘s OIS did a decent job keeping stable, I used the video editing software for further stability. Everything looks great, except the video looks like I’m on LSD with the scene “breathing”, or described differently on a boat in calm waters. The scene/subject was gently expanding and contracting with my own breathing, so the video editor at max setting wasn’t correcting the motion since it was gentle motion. It’s a bit nauseating for some viewers.

I wonder if auto-framing/focus reframing apps, or whatever term they use to keep the subject centered (like those social media clips of people’s face centered while everything in the background moves) will fix this?

The subject can stay relatively the same size and still as that’s what people will be focused on, so I think the background “breathing” wouldn’t be very noticeable.

Any technique suggestions or app recommendations to fix this? Non-professional work, casual YouTube video.

Thank you

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u/UndefeatedRival — 4 days ago

Throwback to when Freddie and Gibby won the Jennings Trophy

With Carolina sweeping Philly on the back of Freddie’s beast mode play and moving on to ECF (congrats Freddie!), remember when we had both Freddie and Gibby? So much swagger oozing from these two; the Ginger Beast and Shampoo Commercial Model.

Freddie has always been a favorite (and still is) and personally I wanted to keep him over the emerging Gibson when we had that 1A/1B goalie problem. Freddie was injury prone so I can understand why we kept the younger Gibby, only to have Gibby suffer injuries from carrying the team on his back all the time. Freddie still suffers from many injuries to this day!

Ducks have been very fortunate for always having top tier goalies one right after another. LGD!

u/UndefeatedRival — 12 days ago