Nicholas J. Michalak said:
a friend of mine does have software that can stablize footage.
-NJM
There's the Deshaker filter (free) for VirtualDub (also free) that can do this.
The shake in ANH (I assume we're talking about the shots of Han and Luke when the TIEs buzz the Falcon) was artifical, and is just a horizontal displacement of the image, so doesn't require anything that complex to remove it. I went the opposite way to Ady and added some rotation and blur to make the shake look more realistic.
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