jero32 said:

I recall team negative saying that they also tried stabilizing film using the sprocket holes, but this did not work perfectly due to the film actually having some gate weave of its own IN the film. Might be a similair case.

I know exactly what you are talking about. In the trailer I am working on, some of the scenes have the gate weave in the film. However, it moves fluidly from one frame to the next. In the video at the link, it is really jumpy at times and fluid at others. In one of the scenes that had gate weave in my version, I was able to fix it because it was a stationary scene. I first lined it up with the sprocket holes, and then did a second pass with elements in the scene and it stabilized it.