Hello Good Doctor. I think you've gotten some really good advice here, and I tested a form of the approach that
mleise mentioned and I think it gives a usable output
One thing to notice is that the jelly/jiggle/jitter is clearly in the original footage (see my short "jitter" attachment), and the stabilizer simply makes that apparent by removing the actual camera movement from the clip. The jitter is definitely caused by low light/slow shutter speed plus slight camera movement during the "long" exposure, so you can't really eliminate it.
However, I slowed the clip down by 3x (0.33x actual speed) and let PD
interpolate the missing frames. It's not perfect, but it smoothed over the sharp jitter from one frame to the next. I didn't apply any other fixes or effects, and I produced that to H.264 720x480/24p/8Mbps.
I then placed that clip in the timeline and sped it up 3x (back to the 1x original speed) then applied the stabilizer at 20 with the
Fix rotational camera shake box checked. Next I applied the NewBlue Rolling Shutter FX (from the Video Essentials 3 pack), and was able to remove most of the remaining smearing with a correction of 16 and a quality of 153.
Since the sound was lost in the 1/3 speed clip, I placed the original audio under the repaired clip and produced it. Download it and see what you think.
There are probably other ways of making these clips a little easier to view, and if you don't have NBFX, I could probably apply this fix to the clips you need stabilized and send them back to you.
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jitter.m2ts |
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Description |
2-frame see-saw showing jitter in source clip |
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2849 Kbytes
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192 time(s) |
Filename |
cave test 720 2 pass #4.m2ts |
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Description |
stabilized/sans jelly :-) |
Filesize |
11027 Kbytes
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164 time(s) |
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