How Cat Speed Impacts Video Quality: Tips to Eliminate Motion Blur

Cats have been the objects of fascination for humanity for eons. There's something almost mythical about their explosive speed, fluid movement, and lightning-fast reflexes. Even house cats' gravity-defying leaps and sharp cornering exhibit raw athleticism that seems to fly in the face of basic physics and biology. One moment, they're lying comfortably on the couch purring, and the next, darting across the room, into the garden, and scaling up the tree chasing a squirrel, even before you register what's happening! Any attempt to capture the antics of these parkour cats will leave you scrambling for your phone camera, only to end up recording everything in a blur. So, how do you capture parkour cats without the blur?

Well, one way is to use HitPaw VikPea's video stabilization technology to get rid of the blurs from your existing videos. You can also use your camera settings to minimize blurs in your captured videos. In this detailed guide, we'll teach you how to do both.

Part 1: Different Cat Breeds and Their Speed and the Necessary Shooting Parameters

We'll get to the detailed analysis of what makes videos blurry and how you can address the issue in a moment. However, if you're looking for a quick list of things you can do now to capture a blur-free cat video, here are some of the things you should know.

Firstly, cat speed has a huge impact on the quality of your videos. The faster the cat, the more likely your videos to be blurry. So, find information on your cat's breed to learn how fast they can be. Here's a quick list of common cat breeds and their speeds:

As you can see, cat breeds vary significantly in their athleticism. So, your camera's video recording settings must be set to match the speed of the respective breed. In general, here are some of the recommended settings for capturing videos of different cat breeds with minimum to no blurring:

Using the above video recording settings will help you reduce blurs in your cat videos, but a deeper understanding of blurs will help you minimize or even eliminate them altogether. This brings us to the next part.

Part 2: Video Blur Caused by High-Speed Motion

Each of us has an intuitive understanding of blur. We experience it every day in our natural lives, too. Whenever we turn fast or even shift our sights from one area to another quickly, our sight gets blurred. Everything in our vision gets blurred for a moment. That's just the human brain trying to ignore an influx of unnecessary information. However, blurs in cameras are different.

Video blurs occur because the camera is unable to capture a clean, sharp image of a fast-moving object. As a result, the frames blend together, creating a blurring effect. This occurs due to multiple factors that may or may not be in your control. Let's take a quick look at them:

Shutter Speed

This is perhaps the most important factor affecting your parkour cat's video quality. The camera's shutter speed controls the time exposure, which is the amount of time a camera sensor is exposed to light. A shorter shutter speed can freeze motion for that instant, while a longer shutter speed records more movement in a single frame, which translates to a blur.

Long shutter speeds become necessary in low-light conditions when you want the camera sensor to capture more light for more duration, aka time exposure. However, when the light is plentiful, you can experiment with higher shutter speeds until you achieve the right equilibrium.

Frame Rate

Think of a video as a sequence of images. The smoothness and sharpness of the video hinges on the number of such images displayed in quick succession. Technically, this is known as fps (frames per second). The higher the frame rate, the smoother the action. When you capture high-action videos in low fps, the motion ends up as blurry streaks in the recordings.

A normal video runs at 24 to 30 fps, which is good for routine conditions. However, for fast-motion events like mountain biking, skydiving, or cat parkour scenes, higher fps, like 60, 120, or 240 fps, are required.

Resolution

The resolution doesn't directly impact motion blur but has a more convoluted influence on it. Firstly, high-resolution videos improve the sharpness and detail of the videos, so the finer details come out more vivid, giving a semblance of blur-free recording.

Secondly, when you use an AI-powered tool like HitPaw VikPea to eliminate motion blurs, some portions of the video, especially on the edges, get cropped out. So, wide-angle videos in high resolution can ensure more of the action is preserved in the video post-processing.

Autofocus

Almost all major digital cameras and smartphone cameras now possess autofocus capabilities. However, they vary greatly in accuracy and effectiveness. Generally, cameras with Continuous Autofocus (AF-C or AI Servo) keep the focus on moving objects-cats, in this case-to ensure that their movements are blur-free, no matter their speed or camera movements.

Lightning

When we discussed Shutter Speed, we briefly examined how lighting conditions affect video quality. In low-light conditions, you need higher exposure to capture more of the action, which negatively affects shutter speed, increasing the likelihood of blurs. So, try to capture parkour cat videos in bright light conditions.

Part 3: 3 Steps to Fix Blurry Parkour Cat Videos

No matter what you do, sometimes it's impossible to avoid motion blurs in parkour cat videos. But don't worry. HitPaw VikPea (HitPaw Video Enhancer) can get rid of motion blurs from your videos at the click of a button. VikPea uses built-in AI video stabilization to smoothen out the video at the pixel level, giving you smooth, blur-free parkour videos.

Why Choose HitPaw VikPea to Stabilize Cat Videos

• Batch Processing: VikPea can remove blurs from thousands of your cat videos in a batch.
• Auto Blur Removal: You don't have to learn or do anything. VikPea does everything with a button click.
• No Quality Loss: VikPea's blur removal does not reduce your video quality.
• Quality Upgrade: Built-in AI can upscale your regular cat videos into 8K resolution viral sensations.
• Improves Detail: Not only VikPea removes blurs, but it also brings out more detail and sharpness in videos.
• 30+ Formats: VikPea removes motion blurs from videos on cameras, phones, laptops, CCTV, and other sources.

Guide on How to Reduce Motion Blur with HitPaw VikPea

• Step 1: Activate Stabilization

Download and install HitPaw VikPea >> Launch it >> Drag and drop videos into VikPea directly or use the 'Choose File' button >> From the left menu bar, choose 'Stabilization.'


• Step 2: Preview Stabilized Video

The AI automatically detects imported video and stabilizes it. Preview the stabilized video by clicking on 'Preview'.


• Step 3: Export the Stabilized Video

Once you are satisfied with the video quality, click 'Export' to save the enhanced video.

FAQs on Removing Blurs from Cat Speed Videos

Conclusion

Cats are super-fast and love to jump, climb, and run around. This makes it really hard to take clear videos of them. To fix this, you can change your camera settings, like frame rate, shutter speed, etc., or use an AI-powered tool like HitPaw VikPea to get rid of motion blurs from your videos. VikPea turns all those blurry cat videos you couldn't use before into premium content for cat lovers everywhere. Also, the interactive lab on VikPea lets you polish your videos in every way into professional-quality content, so check it out today.