"Transcode" copying video/audio codec

Question

I took some very shaky video, and went online to try and find how to stabilize it. I came upon this nice blog that uses transcode for it. Following the blog instructions it worked very nice, but the end result had a lot of compression artifacts. This I imagine is mostly due to using xvid as a new codec.

My intention is reuse the codec the camera originally used which is H.264/AVC but I haven't found a way of doing so (ran into various dead ends using either encoder -y mov... or -y ffpmeg.

In particular when using -y ffmpeg -F "-vcodec copy -acodec copy" it prints out:

[export_ffmpeg.so] warning: Video template standard must be one of pal/ntsc

but running

ffmpeg -i input.mov -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.mov

Presents no problem.

Any idea on how to do this? or an alternative to stabilize video on linux?.