Premiere Pro · Framing, motion and effects
How to stabilize shaky footage in Premiere Pro
Short answer
Drag Effects > Video Effects > Distort > Warp Stabilizer onto the clip. Premiere analyzes it and smooths the motion. Lower Smoothness, or change Method to Position, Scale, Rotation, if the picture warps.
In Premiere Pro
01
Apply Warp Stabilizer
In the Effects panel, search for Warp Stabilizer and drag it onto the clip.
02
Wait for the analysis
Premiere analyzes in the background, then stabilizes. A banner on the clip shows progress.
03
Pick the result
Set Result to Smooth Motion to keep the camera move, or No Motion to lock the shot.
04
Fix warping
If edges wobble like jelly, lower Smoothness (start around 20%) or change Method to Position, Scale, Rotation.
05
Check the crop
Stabilizing crops and scales the picture. Set Framing to Stabilize, Crop, Auto-scale and check the Auto-scale amount.
- Warp Stabilizer won't run on a clip with a different speed or size than the sequence until you nest it.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Ask Eddie to stabilize a clip, and the result carries into Premiere.
Say "Stabilize this clip." It costs 40 credits per minute of source and crops the picture roughly 5 to 15%. The stabilized shot bakes into MP4 renders and every timeline export, including Premiere.
Back to Premiere
Open the edit, click Export and choose Premiere. You get a Premiere project (.prproj) or the older Premiere XML. In the desktop app, Send to Premiere Pro builds the edit inside Premiere through Eddie's panel, which the app installs for you.
If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files, so Premiere relinks to them. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media; relink to those, not to the camera originals.
From the help center
Questions
- Why does Warp Stabilizer say it needs a nested sequence?
- The clip's speed or frame size differs from the sequence. Nest it first.
- Why is Warp Stabilizer so slow?
- It analyzes every frame. Stabilize only the part you use: cut the clip first.