I’ve started to use short clips I’ve shot for my myself as longer intro and outro clips for key videos where I break them into chapters, to enable me add a ‘hidden’ audio description of the scene for viewers with limited vision. The additional audio is accessed by clicking a button on the timeline, there is, however, no audio added to this clip, so don’t search for the button, it’s not there.
Adding additional audio descriptions is partly to comply with the new European Accessibility Act but also to provide clips everyone can understand and benefit from. For more complex shoots we also add extended audio descriptions which enable the viewer pause while they get multiple descriptions of what is going on.
This particular clip was shoot hand held at quite a distance on a 400mm zoom lens at full extension on my old GH5 in Apple Pros Res HQ and while I didn’t do a bad job of keeping the birds in the frame, I had the sun in my eyes, and was grateful to be able to add stabilisation in the edit.
I use Davinci Resolve Studio as my preferred editor and I think this shows it can do a pretty good job of replicating footage shot on a tripod.
I used to film a lot on construction sites, on street and location, and at live concerts on stage where it often isn’t possible to shoot on a tripod, so having the ability in edit to compensate and remove pretty much all shake is pretty impressive.
I used to do a lot of editing for other companies to fix issues such and banding, clips shot under lights that don’t match the camera, and cleaning audio etc and this is also something I can help with, if your self shot footage needs stabilising too.
