Video and Image Stabilization from News Videographer

News Videographer is a great blog for multimedia journalism, constructive criticism of your journalistic work, reviews of video gear, software, online distribution and general news about most things related to Internet video. Something we are very interested in here at Cutcaster.

Angela Grant does a super job with the articles with the help of a few contributors. Kevin Jacobus wrote a piece on techniques for improving video and image stabilization. He outlines some methods which are particularly important for anyone shooting their own content. To paraphrase Kevin:

1. Electronic image stabilization in camera. Don’t use it.

2. Optical image stabilization on the lens. Some lenses have optical image stabilizers that manipulate a prism to steady the image.

3. Mechanical stabilization. A tripod or monopod.

Some are obvious and some are not. For more information check out the article and keep up the good work Angela and Kevin.