Introduction

Cuvista stabilizes shaky video footage on your PC. Open a video file, save to a new filename, and watch the software do its job. Contrary to other software by default only one single pass over the input is made to analyse and generate the output.

The software will make use of GPU acceleration if supported hardware is present, greatly accelerating the process in that way. The cuda platform present on Nvidia grahics cards is used if such a suitable device is detected. Also OpenCL capable devices are supported. No special driver or software is needed to make use of gpu acceleration. Without any dedicated hardware stabilization will still run on CPU power alone, which will provide the same result, although at a significantly lower speed.

Sample Footage

The following video shows side by side the original recording and the stabilized version using Cuvista

Get Started

Get yourself the latest version of Cuvista and stabilize your videos by following the steps

• Click the link at the top of this page to download the latest version
• Unzip the downloaded file to any folder on your PC
• Doubleclick cuvistaGui.exe in the folder you created
• Open any video file by clicking the camera button
• Click Stabilize to process and save the new video

Screenshots

Options

Some settings allow to change the process and outcome

• Overwrite: When checked, no confirmation dialog is displayed when overwriting an existing output file
• Device: Select the device to do the heavy computing. Prefer a cuda capable device
• Encoding: Select the device to do the video encoding. Can be different from the stabilization device
• Temporal Radius: How many frames before and after shall be considered to smooth movements. Higher value will generally provide smoother output
• Zoom: Stabilization moves frames around, which reaveals the void at least on one side of the frame. Zooming into the video by some amount will hide this moving effect
• Background: Fill the void in the background either with a fixed color or preceding frames
• Stack: Put original and stabilized video side by side to display the stabilization result

If you want to watch how exactly each frame is moved around to compensate for the shakyness in the recording, try to set zoom to 0.9 and background to some fixed color

Command Line Version

There also is a command line version availabe which provides more advances options

Open a command prompt, go to the folder containing the unzipped application files and use the syntax cuvista.exe -i infile -o outfile

Provide the option -h to get additional help

GitHub

This project is hosted on GitHub, if you want to get the sources and build your own application refer to the Cuvista GitHub Repository