Is there any way to make vidstab actually crop the image? If I want the outside areas black I can put the cropped video on a black background. Or maybe I want to use a white background. Or maybe I want a blurred version of the original, unstabilized video. Or a blurry version of the non-cropped stabilized video. But please just let me choose by making the crop actually crop.

Vidstab puts black borders on by design. Add a Position and Zoom effect to zoom in and remove the black.

ttguy wrote:Vidstab puts black borders on by design. Add a Position and Zoom effect to zoom in and remove the black.

How would I use Position and Zoom to mask out the black? I would need a rotoscoping video for that. And of course it needs to be automatically tracked, I can't sit and adjust it by hand for every frame. That would take months for even short videos.

If it was a completely different color (say, green) I could use chroma key to mask it out, but I can't do that with black, which is likely to be present in the video itself.

How about copying the vidstab mlt file (with crop enabled) and changing the video it refers to to a video of just white. Then the clip should be a white rectangle with a black border, right? Could I somehow use this video as an alpha mask for my stabilized video?