Spiney Loc: Reading, PA

I shot a video of a large steam locomotive pulling a tourist train going thru a RR Crossing last weekend. The Reading & Northern T1 2102 engine pulling a string of vintage Pullman cars. Once the locomotive enters the shot it appears like it’s behind heat waves in the air. The air was in the low 60’s and the locomotive I’m sure was quite hot, so at first I thought maybe that was it. But then the passenger cars look the same.

Doing some reading I’m guessing it was a case of rolling shutter. I captured it on an iPhone 8+ 4K 30fps shot vertical for Instagram. This is first time I’ve experienced Rolling Shutter while capturing videos of fast trains, cars planes.

I’ve been using Cap Cut to edit it has no fix for rolling shutter. I downloaded Davinci Resolve but haven’t installed it yet. I’ve read Adobe Premiere Pro will fix rolling shutter, but I don’t want to subscribe to possibly fix one 1 minute video. But this train only runs a few times a year, so I would like to save it if possible. Any suggestions? Would someone with Premier Pro be willing to try fixing it for me? Thanks, Dave

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

I have and use Premiere Pro. It has an "effect" built in called "Rolling Shutter Repair". I've never used it and don't know how good it is.

Send me the clip (DropBox or whatever), I'll try the effect and send it back.