I tested a lot of different settings in ReelSteady. These are the best overall settings for the least amount of cropping and least visible zooming effect in comparison with the raw video and the ReelSteady default settings. Top Left: Raw video.
Top Right: Default ReelSteady settings.
Bottom Left: Best performance for cinematic freestyle type of flying.
Bottom Right: Same best performance but with the Horizon Lock option enabled.
Bottom Left are the settings which i'm using from now on.
The Raw video was shot in 2.7K 4:3 which is the best for ReelSteady because then is has more horizontal lines to work with and doesn't have to crop that much. I squashed it to make it 16:9 to fit the final video.
My final conclusion is to let ReelSteady do a less stabilizing then the default (slider 3 steps to the left), and let it crop a bit faster (slider 3 steps to the right). And for that gimbal style of video, same settings but check the Horizon Lock box.
Video is shot on a Gopro Hero 5 Session on a 5" quad. Gopro was mounted very loosely in a TPU printed mount, flapping around to eliminate high pitched vibrations going to the gyro of the Gopro.
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