New Video App: Movie Stiller, Video Stabilization for iPhone
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 11:00AM | Glyn Evans 
App Store Description: Is camera shake spoiling your videos? Want to make them smoother and more professional? There's an app for that, and it's Elasty Movie Stiller! Movie Stiller is a must have for all iPhone video lovers.
Elasty Movie Stiller is the ONLY app for stabilizing videos available on the App Store. From now on, don’t worry if your hand is shaking while recording a movie with your iPhone. Movie Stiller will automatically remove those distracting vibrations. Its advanced stabilization technology compensates the horizontal, vertical and rotational motion of the iPhone camera. You can adjust the stabilization strength depending on how smooth you want the output movie to be. And you can zoom in for a still better result.
Easily Stabilize your Videos in a few Minutes - Key Features
- Import any video of up to 10 minutes from the iPhone library.
- Choose the stabilization strength necessary to efficiently remove camera shake.
- Upscale the video for hiding black borders, and getting the most impressive movies.
- The display frame will help you preview the video as it will be exported.
- Export the stabilized video to the iPhone library.
- Very fast video processing on your iPhone. No Internet connection required.
- Stylish UI, with full support of Retina Display.
Supported Devices
- iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4
- iPod touch 4th Generation
Movie Stiller in New iPhone Video App
Reader Comments (8)
Downloaded this app and it doesn't even work. It crashes when I try to select a video in the camera roll. Useless piece of junk.
Got it right away after reading the post, works great! (no crashes, using iPhone 4)
No thoughts on how well it works?
It works for my iPhone 4, but the algorithm is not perfect though. Needs a new algorithm to recognise panning since I always find black borders even though it's just a light panning. And you have to trade the video's clarity to gain the stabilisation. Not as good as the video showed.
Update please!
It crashes too when I try to select a video. I have an iPhone 4.
Does the app import and export in HD?
Creaseed seem to be good at releasing buggy software. I tried their HDR Hydra app on my Mac but gave up on it because it was so unstable.
I thought I'd give it a try. Although the app itself is a little buggy and the resulting video is a little glitchy sometimes I have to say I'm impressed. I threw a few very jittery videos at it and it did a reasonable job of smoothing them out. Samples below...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMWSN0lYJ6Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqWybyCurE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IEtuuBHtLo
Given the quality of the original videos (or lack thereof) nothing is going to save these clips, that's understandable. I think where this app will shine is for smoothing out light to moderate camera shake. And as you know, even if you are trying its almost impossible to take an iPhone video without a little shake.
The app outputs in HD and it looks like the developer is already responding to bugs (from description in app store) so I have high hopes that they will get everything worked out and then they'll have a winning app.