Best stabilizing plugin and best plugins to improve quality of footage (PremPro)

[Matt Thomas]

Hi Guys,

Do you know of the best plugins to use for Premiere Pro that stabilizes footage and also that can improve quality of footage (SD), I know the results may not be the best, but it's just to make a documentary film that was shot on a SD Handycam look a little more "professional."

I saw these two plugins in regards to "restoring"/improving quality of footage - Topaz Enhance - Video Quality Enhancement Plug-in and SuperResolution plugin by Infognition for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro but I wanted to ask if anyone had personal experience in what the better plugins are.

Thanks
Matt

[Guy Caplin]

Have you tried the Warp Stabiliser, which from CS6 onwards comes as a standard effect in Premiere? It has several methods of usage and I found it particularly useful on hand-held material. A little trial and error is needed to determine the best settings for a particular shot, but the degradation introduced by the re-framing process is minimal. The downside of this stabilising effect (and I suspect all stabilising software) is that you need a powerful computer to see the effect in real time (and not waste your life away waiting for rendering to finish).

[Rob Cantwell]

one problem i encountered with Warp is that you cant adjust the speed of a clip once Warp has been applied to it.