How to export a 2D stabilized movie clip? So, in the default view, I switched the 3D main view to "Movie Clip Editor".

I then added a video clip, made a bit of 2D image stabilization on it.
I'm happy with what I have now, and I'd like to save it to an output file.

In the properties, I've set start frame to 1, end frame to the ending frame of the video clip. In Post Processing, both Compositing and Sequencer is ticked. Output is set to h.264, etc.

Now, When I click "Animation" in the Render menu, It renders an empty, gray image, that is as long as I selected, but is not the video clip I've been editing.

So, how do I do that?

Also: Suppose I want to use that finished (stabilized) clip in the sequence editor, how do I put that clip into the sequence editor? The only way I can add clips like that, seems to be just adding the original source movie, but I want the clip I've been working on. How do I do that?
After setting up and tracking a video in the movie clip editor, you will want to use the tracking data to export an altered video. The adjusted video you see in the clip editor is only an in-memory adjusted version for feedback purposes.

To get a final adjusted video output you will need to setup some compositing nodes to adjust the "rendered" output. The minimum setup you will want is a movie clip input node, a 2D stabilization node and a composite node, a viewer node will let you preview the result behind the nodes if you enable the backdrop option.



Of course you can also add any other nodes to this for colour correction or adding 3D objects etc.

Now when you press render the result will match what is connected to the composite node.