So, I will press the Spacebar to stop playback again and go back and change the Method back to Subspace Warp. And you will notice just with Position you will get a fair amount of distortion that happens within the shot. Let’s choose Position from the drop-down and then press the Spacebar to preview that. Now under the Method options click on that drop-down because Subspace Warp is the default and Subspace Warp works by looking at each individual pixel for each individual frame over the entire duration of the clip and it stabilizes the shot pixel by pixel. Notice the shot will automatically be stabilized again and no analysis will be required. Since this camera was static in one place except for the camera shake, let’s choose No Motion. Smooth Motion is a setting designed for when the camera is actually in motion, for example, a camera that’s on a dolly shot. Under Stabilization let’s start in the Result area and click on the drop-down menu. Let’s press the Spacebar to stop playback and look at some of the settings in the Effect. I don't know about you but I think that's a pretty drastic difference. Once the analysis is complete all you have to do is press the Spacebar again to preview the stabilized shot.
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If I want to see a status update as to the progress, I can just go to the top of the Effect Controls panel under Warp Stabilizer VFX and you will not only get a status but you will also get a rough estimate as to how much time is left for the analysis. What's nice is the fact that it's analyzing this in the background which means I can go to any other composition in my After Effects project and continue to work as this analysis occurs in the background. Once applied the effect immediately starts analyzing the clip. Go up to the Animation menu and choose Warp Stabilizer VFX to apply the effect. So, I will press the Spacebar to stop playback and then press the Home key on my keyboard to make sure the Current Time Indicator is on Frame 0:00:00:00. And sure enough this footage is very shaky.
To preview our clip, I will click once in the Timeline and then press the Spacebar to begin playback. The Warp Stabilizer VFX tool in After Effects happens to be one of the best when you have that shot but it's just got a little too much camera shake. We all know that production can sometimes be a challenge, so it's nice to know there are tools that can help you out when things don’t go quite as planned.