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Smoothcam?
Anyone try Smoothcam? Does it generate tracking data? Work any good at all?
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Tried it and was going to take 8 hours to render a 10 sec clip on a 4 core Mac Pro. I don’t know if it had anything to do with it being a multiclip or what but the processors were running past 200%.
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It works great in FCP, but it will analyze your hole clip. So make sure the clip in the timeline is not attached to a 30 minute master clip. The render on a 5 second clip was less than a minute.
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For me, just this one feature was worth the $500 update.. I’ve gotten way too much shakey footage, this is a real blessing.
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I have an hour of footage I shot last week in a helicopter, I had a gyro on it hand held, and in the lcd could not see a slight but annoying rotational shake that isn’t the end of the world, but seeing the Smoothcam demo made me feel much better about it. I did notice the “whole clip” referrence on the demo, so I suppose a good tip is to capture in small bites, which would work out fine for my needs anyway. AS someone above said, worth the price of the upgrade!
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Wondering if a good workaround might be to media manage the clips in your timeline, recut them in and then apply smoothcam?
Seems like the long way but the only other solution that really seems feasible to me is to wait until you uprez and therefore usually have to deal with only small clips.
I suppose the capture small chunks solution works…but to me and my workflow it seems like more work on the front end that I really don’t want to be thinking about. Ingest, for me, is all about looking and learning about the footage, not thinking about Smoothcam render issues.
That being said, the demo shows smoothcam analyzing in the background while you work…how sluggish does the system get? If there is minimal slowdown isn’t it a mute point? I mean there’s always something to do while it is analyzing…like surf the cow!
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It’s one of those “can’t fix terrible footage but can fix some things” features. The rolling-shutter problems on my HV20 show up sometimes but it’s not terribly bad. Does require some tweaking, lots of times it’ll improperly interpret a pan as a shake, and suddenly it’ll ‘snap’ back. shove the scale meter to 0 to see what it’s actually doing.
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[erik] “Anyone try Smoothcam? Does it generate tracking data? Work any good at all?”
If this works like it does in Shake, then it will not generate any tracking data. In Shake, it’s not a tracker, and doesn’t have any tracking points. I’m guessing that in Motion, it will work more or less the same way. won’t know till I decide to upgrade in a few weeks.
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