<p>I recently bought Google Pixel and have gotten into blogging. Occasionally I'll turn off image stabilization when using a tripod, but if I forget to turn it back on it drastically affects the quality of videos.</p>

<p>I recently filmed an entire evening worth of un-stabilized video and tried to fix it in iMovie with the "stabilize shaky video" feature, but it did a bad job and couldn't match what the Pixel is ordinarily capable of.</p>

<p>How is it a tiny smartphone can do such a better job in real time compared to post production? Is it all just algorithms, or is something else going on in hardware?</p>

<imovie><stabilisation>
Why is image stabilization in my smartphone so much better than in post production?
Ash
# Why is image stabilization in my smartphone so much better than in post production?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-12-29)

I recently bought Google Pixel and have gotten into blogging. Occasionally I'll turn off image stabilization when using a tripod, but if I forget to turn it back on it drastically affects the quality of videos.

I recently filmed an entire evening worth of un-stabilized video and tried to fix it in iMovie with the "stabilize shaky video" feature, but it did a bad job and couldn't match what the Pixel is ordinarily capable of.

How is it a tiny smartphone can do such a better job in real time compared to post production? Is it all just algorithms, or is something else going on in hardware?

**Tags:** imovie, stabilisation


---

## 0 answers

