What Ubuntu-compatible software is available to remove shaking from a video?

Question

I've got some some home movies that look great, but my video camera doesn't have one of those fancy new stabilizers. Is there extant end-user software (preferably FLOSS) I could use to removing the shaking?

Transcode

Transcode is no longer maintained and was removed from Ubuntu releases 18.04 and newer. You may still be able to run it but functions may be limited or buggy.

You can deshake a video with the use of an external stabilizer plugin available here

• Transcode video stabilization plugin

or from the Ubuntu multiverse repository in 18.04 or older:

sudo apt install transcode

After installation of the plugin you can stabilize a video with the following command:

transcode -J stabilize -i inmovie -y null,null -o dummy

This will give you an output file with definitions for transforms that will have to be performed as a second step (here using default options):

transcode -J transform -i inmovie -y xvid,null -o outmovie

For further details and many additional options also see:

• Stabilizer Plugin Wiki

Comments

[Admin]

I know it's not a direct answer, but YouTube offer some video editing capabilities that include vibration reduction.

[Johnny1am]

I tried this on a 40MB 720p mp4 file from my Flip Mino HD camera. It did something: it spit out a file called VID00055.MP4.trf. What do I do with that?

[Johnny1am]

ok, looks like that did something, but there's no output video file. In the console output I see [transcode] warning: no option -o found, encoded frames send to "/dev/null" and [transcode] warning: no option -y found, option -o ignored, writing to "/dev/null". Do you know what those options should be? Sorry, never used transcode before, and I'm finding it a bit hard to use.

[Johnny1am]

transcode -J transform -i VID00055.MP4 -y raw,tcaud -o out.mp4 worked, but the resulting audio is horrible (choppy). Oh well.

[Rick]

Could you also package this up in a bash script? transcode -J stabilize -i $1 -y null,null -o dummy and then transcode -J transform -i $1 -y xvid,null -o out-$1. Then once you've found the right settings (that work for you), wrap this in a for loop.

[reducing activity]

"After installation of the plugin" how this can be done?

[Takkat]

@reducingactivity: sorry for that - links changed a bit over the years. See edit for clarification

[reducing activity]

@Takkat Package transcode is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'transcode' has no installation candidate (Ubuntu 20.04)

[Takkat]

@reducingactivity: sorry again - you're entirely correct. Transcode was only available up to 18.04. It is removed from Ubuntu in newer releases as it was nbo longer maintainend and also had issues with ffmpeg. Unortunately I have no experience with any replacement.