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Find out what kind of shake your clip has, pick the preset that matches how it was filmed and check the result against the original before you save it. Nothing is uploaded.
Or choose one from your computer. Phone, action-camera and drone clips all work, in MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV and more.Pick the wobbly clip from your photos or files.
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Stabilised on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
Most shaky footage can be fixed after it was filmed, as long as the problem is the camera moving rather than the picture being blurred. A wobble from your hands, the bounce of walking, the buzz of a car mount or a drone swaying in the wind are all movements of the whole frame, and they can be measured and taken back out. Blur from a fast jolt is different: it is recorded inside each frame, and no stabiliser removes it.
Open the clip in the box above and it is analysed on your device straight away. When the analysis is done, a preset that fits your footage may be marked Suggested; switch View to Split and drag the divider to see the difference before you Export video. If straight lines lean or the picture wobbles like jelly, that’s rolling shutter; if the shot should not move at all, make it a locked-off shot; and if you can’t spare any of the frame, see stabilising without cropping.
Fix shaky video
Drop it on the box marked Drop a shaky video to stabilise, or press Ctrl+O (⌘+O on a Mac). On a phone, tap Choose a shaky video and pick it from your photos. Analysis starts by itself (Analysing motion…).
Under How was it filmed?, try the Suggested card first. Otherwise choose Walking for bounce, Running for hard jolts, Vehicle for a car or bike mount, Drone for wind wobble, or Tripod for a shot that should stand still.
Set View to Split and drag the divider across the picture, or choose Side by side. The line under Zoom limit says how much shake was removed and how far the picture zooms in.
Raise Smoothness for a calmer camera, or lower it if a pan you meant starts to lag. If it zooms in too far, lower Zoom limit or set Framing to Smart zoom.
Press Export video (Ctrl+Enter or ⌘+Enter), leave Keep sound on in the sheet that opens and press Export video again. Then Download the steady copy, or Share it from your phone.
Play the clip and watch a straight edge near the middle of the picture: a door frame, a lamp post, the horizon. How it moves tells you the cause, and the cause tells you which preset to start from.
| What you see | Usual cause | Start with |
|---|---|---|
| A small, quick tremble on a shot that should be still | Hands at arm’s length, often zoomed in | Subtle, or Tripod if nothing should move |
| A steady up-and-down bounce, about twice a second | Footsteps while filming | Walking |
| Big, irregular jolts | Running, cycling, a helmet or chest mount | Running |
| A fine buzz, with the picture going wobbly | Engine vibration through a car, bike or boat mount | Vehicle, or Jelly fix if the picture wobbles like jelly |
| A slow sway or a sudden lurch on an otherwise smooth flight | Wind against a drone | Drone |
| Upright lines leaning during pans, or a jelly-like wobble | The camera’s rolling shutter | Jelly fix (rolling shutter) |
| Jumps between frames of a sped-up sequence | A timelapse or hyperlapse shot by hand | Timelapse |
Not sure? Keep Recommended. It suits most clips, and switching presets afterwards only plans the camera path again, so trying three of them takes moments.
Two limits are this tool’s own. It measures the motion from the picture alone, with no gyroscope or lens data from the camera, and it saves HDR and 10-bit clips as standard 8-bit video.
To cancel the shake, each frame is shifted, turned and sometimes rescaled, which pulls its edges into view. The usual answer is to zoom in just far enough to keep those edges out of sight. How far depends on the shake: a gentle tremble needs a few per cent, a run or a bumpy road much more. Zoom limit sets the most it may use, and the line under that slider reports the zoom it really used.
When the shake needs more zoom than you allow, the planner lets the camera follow the original movement a little more closely in that stretch rather than show wide empty edges, and any thin gap that remains is filled as set under Edges. Lowering Smoothness keeps the camera closer to the original for the whole clip.
Each step lifts and drops the camera and rocks it slightly, about twice a second. Walking smooths that bounce heavily while keeping the direction you walked in, and uses Smart zoom so the calm stretches keep more of the frame. If the result feels floaty, lower Smoothness a little.
Running smooths much harder than Recommended while still following where you went, and allows more zoom. Expect some frames to stay soft: running shakes the camera fast enough to blur it. Wide action-camera lenses help, since the same shake moves a wide picture less, but there are no lens profiles here, so the curved edges of a fisheye picture can still wobble a little. That is why Running uses Perspective: Warp, which Maximum and Jelly fix use, can turn a fisheye’s curve into extra wobble, so keep it for other footage.
A drone usually flies smoothly, then catches a gust. Drone keeps nearly the whole frame and steadies the sway; setting Analysis to Precise helps it follow the fine detail of distant landscapes. Fine vibration that bends the picture is a rolling-shutter problem, covered on the rolling shutter page.
Because the camera moved while it recorded: hands that can’t stay still, footsteps, wind or engine vibration. The further away or the more zoomed in the subject, the bigger a tiny movement looks on screen, which is why zoomed phone shots shake most.
Most can be made much steadier, but not every clip comes out perfect. Shake is removable; motion blur, focus hunting and parallax are not, and scenes with almost no detail are hard to measure. Comparing in Split view shows quickly whether your clip is a good candidate.
No. Blur happens inside a single frame while the shutter is open, and stabilising only moves whole frames. A clip with lots of blur will look calmer but slightly soft in places.
Only as far as the shake needs, up to the Zoom limit you set, and the line under that slider tells you the figure. Choose Smart zoom to zoom only on the rough stretches, or Full frame to keep the whole picture and fill the edges instead.
Yes, when the camera wasn’t supposed to move. The Tripod preset sets Camera to Locked and holds one position for the whole shot. A shot that pans or walks can’t be frozen, but Cinematic turns it into calm holds and straight moves.
The one marked Suggested after the analysis, which is picked from how your clip moves. If none is marked, Recommended suits most clips; the table above matches each kind of shake to a preset.
Yes. Open this page in Safari or Chrome on the phone, choose the clip and export it there. Long 4K clips are quicker on a computer, and the phone guide shows how to keep the site on your home screen.