If you want cinema-quality video stabilization, you should get a powered gimbal ... the smartphone camera revolution, and the mainstream adoption of drones for aerial imaging.

For some drones, the camera is integrated into the drone and cannot be removed, while other drones may have a gimbal or fixed camera mount. Quality becomes important depending on the end user's goals.

Here’s [Badwolf’s] team posing with their college project. It’s a 4-axis gimbal mount for a camera that they designed in CAD, cut parts using a laser, then milled them down to specifications.