Stabilizing shaky footage

With the spontaneity of documentary shooting comes a fresh, exciting approach.…However, it also comes with inevitable shaky footage.…Hitting that perfect shot to fit into scene may require that you spend some time stabilizing your footage.…So take a look at how to do that.…All right, so I have here the main farming sequence, and I have a shot of BD driving…to the farmers market.…I'm just going to play it for you so you can see that it just pretty shaky.…(video playing)…Okay, so let's try to smooth that out.…

I'm going to go to the Effect palette and in the Image category, I'm going to just choose…the Stabilize effect and apply it right on top.…Now this is an automatic effect, the tracking window opens, and you can see lots of little…green points, and basically they're just attaching to places within the field of view and locking those down.…And by default, I have something called Auto-Zoom on because what it's going to do is actually…zoom in as it reverses the direction that each of those points is taking during the entire shot.…