Access Lock and Load stabiliser by double clicking on the clip then selecting the stabilise icon. Choose one of the stabilise presets, if your footage is shot on a DSLR with noticeable rolling shutter artefacts then choose one of the “+ shutter” presets.

Tracking of the clips movement will begin automatically, and will return to the timeline when complete. You can immediately play the clip to see the result.

Double tap the clip on the timeline to open the clip editor and adjust parameters to refine the result if needed. In many cases the default parameters will give good results without needing any changes.

Lock & Load includes an option to reduce Rolling Shutter CMOS artefacts integrated with the stabilization process. Rolling Shutter artefacts occur because of the camera sampling different parts of the image at different times in a pattern from top to bottom. They include skewing and visible vertical distortion.

 Lock & Load can help to reduce these artefacts by correcting for the visible skewing and vertical stretching that can occur.

 Apply one of the “+ shutter” presets when selecting stabilization. Alternatively turn on shutter reduction manually with the toggle, no other steps are needed.

The clip is analysed for rolling shutter strength and then rolling shutter reduction is automatically applied, just play your clip to preview the results.

Under Advanced Strength there are separate sliders for “Horizontal”, “Vertical”, “Rotation” and “Zoom” . By default, all directions except for Zoom (or motion in z direction) are enabled, and you will rarely need to change this.

p>In order to smooth the motion Lock & Load needs to reposition the source footage which of course leads to black on the edges of the image. The normal method of correcting this is to scale the image slightly, depending on the amount of motion at that time.

Lock & Load provides a smart mechanism for adaptive scaling and direct control over-scaling. These options can be chosen from the toggle menu "Scale Mode".

Lock & Load’s smart scaling mechanism computes the necessary scaling to cover the margins on a frame by frame basis but also takes care to keep the scaling speed as low as specified. Parts of your footage which require only a small amount of scaling are only scaled up by small amounts thus preserving image quality. Further, you can specify the maximum allowable speed of zoom changes. If you specify zero, a constant zoom is applied over the whole period. For values greater than zero the zoom can vary over time.

If you need direct control over Scaling, you can choose Fixed Scaling and adjust the desired zoom manually.