Correct for Wind Vibration in Video

[Jan1954]

I am editing a video and realized I am seeing "pixelation" from the wind vibration. Is there a filter (not anti-shake) that will fix the entire video clips where the wind impacted the quality of the video? I am assuming what I am seeing will not go away after the movie is created.

[Jan1954]

UPDATE: I just looked at some of this video taken inside. The quality of the video is not good. When the camera starts to pan, I can see all these "short lines" appearing. Back when this video was created, the camcorder was new. Long story short, it was stolen months later. But why is the quality so poor from a new camcorder? On my last video project, I used the Smart Proxy, so I think I did the same for this video. I guess I will see if I did that for this video too. Bummer.

[canuck]

I don't understand how the wind can create "pixelation" of the video. All the wind can do is create shaking and audio noise

[Jan1954]

Yeah, I know. I did use "Smart Proxy Manager" when I started this project. I was telling my husband how bummed I am about the video.

[Jan1954]

I have looked at more video, which was the second part of the trip. The quality is much better. I still want to "rescue" the bad video, if it is possible.

[Davidk]

Even if the camera is long 'lost', what brand and model was it? Maybe that would help diagnose what happened to the clip/s you mention.
One thing that comes to mind is panning: I have a panasonic v770M and if I pan it too quickly I get error messages saying just that, and there's an impact on the video quality at the same time. Could your pixelating issue be occurring during a camera pan? Your description suggests that but does not say so outright. If so, then I think there only thing you can do is throw the affected clip away and re-record it; or alternatively simply cut n trim the affected parts out of the clip during editing.
Another diagnosis tool would be if you uploaded a copy of the affected clip (or relevant part thereof) to One drive or dropbox, and put the access link to it in your reply to this forum, so we can see exactly what you are confronted with.

[lata]

Video recording copes quite well in low light conditions, however panning with low light may cause these lines you are seeing.
You do mention the recordings were done “inside” so maybe a step to far for the camera, low light and panning.
Like David, a sample may help in understanding the problem, how long is the problem recording?

[Jan1954]

I didn't realize I had more replies. Sorry. The camcorder was a Panasonic with an internal hard drive (HDC-TM700P/PC or HDC-HS700P/PC). The majority of the bad video is panning in the distance. But I can also see it in an outdoor restaurant video, where we are recording iguanas hanging out with the customers. At about 22 minutes into the video, and the day after the last of the bad video, the quality looks much, much better.

I don't do one drive or cloud stuff, so I don't know how to do that. I think I'll be replacing quite a bit of the bad video with the photos that were taken at the same time.

[lata]

Yes the way forward may be to create a short slide show of the poor sections.
You could add those to the overlay track to cover the video, that way you would retain the audio, just a thought.

Please check your project properties are using same settings as your video recordings.
I believe your video will be AVCHD / Mts files , 1920 x 1080 x 29.97 fps, ntsc, this will be interlaced using upper field first, unless you are recording at 60P, even so the project properties should show the same.

a difference in the interlacing can cause quality problems, worth checking.
If recordings are Pal then frame rates will be 25fps or 50p

[Jan1954]

Using the overlay track feature is a good idea. A lot of the bad video had lots of wind, so most of the audio is bad too. Here are my project properties, which I copied off the screen:
MPEG Transport-Stream Files, 24 bits, 1920 x 1080, 29.97 fps
Upper Field First (HDMV-NTSC), 16:9 H.264 Video Video data rate: Variable (Max. 16800 kbps)
Audio data rate: 384 kbps Dolby Digital Audio, 48 KHz, 2/0(L,R)
I don't know what interlacing means, so I will look that up.

Thanks.
I have been busy doing other stuff, so am now getting back to this project. There aren't enough hours in the day!

[Davidk]

There has been a lot comment in the forums - some years ago - about how to prevent wind noise from being captured during a recording session. But basically, wrap the microphones with a noise filter that stops the movement of air (wind) over the mic whilst allowing sounds (music/speech/thumps and bumps) thru. Something like the expanded foam you find on mic booms of headsets works well. See what I did for this in the attached image, which pretty well eliminated wind noise. In the image, the camcorder microphones are below the foam, which is held on to the camera by some double-sided tape along the edges.

[Jan1954]

That is pretty minimal and wouldn't take up much space in the gear bag. I also have some of that. I will be packing that in the gear bag.