Stabilizing video within MacOS Photos

Stabilizing a Video can be done with iMovie, but it is rather cumbersome to first export a video from Photos, then import it into iMovie, create a project and export it as a new movie. Then

import it into Photos. There should be an easier way - maybe with a 3rd party app?

Posted on Jan 19, 2023 10:18 AM

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Yer_Man

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Jan 19, 2023 10:51 AM in response to reginaldix

You will have the same issues with any other editor. When Photos sends an image to am external editor it can round-trip them. Photo out -> Edit > Photo back. That's not possible with video, I'm afraid.

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