Stabilize shaky video footage on your phone

Overview

Choose a video and iEdit analyses how the camera moved from frame to frame, separating the small, fast jitter of a hand from the slow, intended movement of a pan or a walk. The jitter is cancelled; the intended movement stays. The result is noticeably steadier footage in which a pan across a landscape still arrives where you pointed the camera, and a walking shot keeps its direction without the bounce of every step.

Steadying a frame means shifting it, which leaves empty space at the edges, and you choose what happens there. Hide edges zooms in slightly so the border is always covered by picture, at the cost of a small crop. Leave it off and iEdit fills the gaps with a mirrored copy of the nearby image, keeping the whole original view. The clip is re-encoded by the phone's hardware encoder at its original resolution with recording metadata kept, and the job finishes in the background with a notification.

Stabilize is for the footage you could not reshoot: a child's first steps filmed one-handed, a concert, a walk through a market, a clip from a moving car. It will not rescue footage that is blurred by motion, but it takes the nervous wobble out of handheld shots and makes them easier to watch. Everything is processed on your device, with nothing uploaded and no account needed.