Apple Adds Video Motion Stabilization to iMovie 09
Posted on Jan 6, 09 09:45 AM PDT
Apple is spending a lot of time talking about iMovie 09, but the one feature that is really eye-popping is the video motion stabilization. It removes a lot of the small hand motion, which is particularly true if you film something in a car because there is a lot of small motion jitters.
It works by analyzing frames before and after the current one being processed, to extract information that might not be in the current frame, or to guess in what direction the image will shake next. From there, the software can compensate for it. A few companies do this sort of things and it's not clear if Apple re-invented the wheel or if they licensed it. It doesn't really matter, as long as the end-user gets to have it.
It is reported to be fairly slow, so it's probably not GPU-accelerated at this point. That could be a future improvement, once Snow Leopard comes out with GPU computing support. Photo courtesy of Gizmodo.
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