Smoovee is a proprietary video stabilization technology developed by Cinetis, a Swiss multimedia software development company.
Smoovee is intended to be user friendly and intuitive. It does not need any user input, it segments the video automatically in shots, tracks the motion between frames and computes a smooth virtual camera movement.
Learn more about Smoovee in our overview and features pages!
To get a better viewing experience and enjoy your videos even more.
For example, you may want to stabilize your videos when you:
Smoovee is completely automatic. There is no need to specify key points or a reference spot in the video for motion tracking. The algorithm does not “jump” from one target area to another and returns a smooth result. Contrary to other software, Smoovee never pushes frames outside the reference window of the viewer. And it is particularly well suited in case of strong jittery motion.
We have tested Smoovee a lot. We processed more than 1300 hours from Cinetis’ film digitization lab, called Bolex Digital. It is now a routine batch post-processing procedure that Bolex Digital applies on all Super8, 8mm, 9.5mm and 16mm film scans.
That’s rare. Sometimes, when there is truly little contrast in the video, Smoovee might get confused. If this occurs, please send us feedback.
Mini-DV cameras are sometimes equipped with an optical or digital stabilizer. They correct nicely for fast jittery motion, but they do not correct for larger shakings, for example when using a strong zoom, when filming while walking or when rushing downhill on a mountain bike.
Computing time will depend on the duration and the resolution of your video.
As processing time might be significant for large files, we have implemented a batch function that analyses videos one after the other. A progress bar indicates how much of the video has been processed. As soon as the analysis is completed, you can display results and select the appropriate stabilization level.
All the video formats that QuickTime recognizes. If you install Perian, you will get support for almost any existing video format.
You need to buy a plugin from the Apple store to add MPEG-2 playback for QuickTime.
However, the support for MPEG-2 videos is really poor even with the official plugin. QuickTime cannot play the sound of most of these videos, the aspect ratio is often incorrectly detected and other bugs prevent Smoovee from detecting motion in these videos. For all these reasons, we cannot provide support for the MPEG-2 format.
If you ever need to stabilize MPEG-2 videos, we advise you to convert them to another format using MPEG Streamclip.
Here is the procedure:
Under MacOS 10.4, due to a known bug in one of QuickTime’s libraries, Smoovee has to gamma-correct exported stabilized videos. This issue does not exist under MacOS 10.5.
Smoovee was first released as a web service to demonstrate the algorithm. It is closed now, and we thank all the users for their constructive feedbacks.
We are thinking of implementing the option to push stabilized movies to YouTube or DailyMotion in the future releases of Smoovee.
Would you be interested? Send us feedback!
For any other question, don't hesitate to contact us by email... We're always happy to see that people are interested in our software!
