How to stabilize shaky video with AI (and when crop hurts)

Every stabilizer crops or warps the frame to cancel motion. Stronger smooth usually means more edge loss. Honest tools expose that trade-off instead of hiding it behind a single magic button.

1. Pick a representative shaky segment (walking talk, vehicle, run)
2. Try a medium strength first in video stabilization
3. Check edges and verticals — over-smooth looks floaty
4. Combine with AI Video Enhancer only after motion is acceptable

KwaFlux previews 1s/3s/5s locally so you can reject a strength that eats too much framing before you burn a full export.

Rolling shutter jello, extreme whip pans, and missing frames need a reshoot or a different edit. Stabilization is for recoverable handshake — not for rewriting physics.