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Glitchy Smoothcam
I have a few clips that could look better with Smoothcam added to them. So, I added the effect to each clip, it took a while and when I played the video on the timeline every clip I had (whether SmoothCam was applied to it or not) was glitchy and would flash from black to the first frame of the first video I had in the sequence.
Anyone know what went wrong?
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5 Replies
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DId you log and capture individual clips or the whole tape? If you took in an entire tape as one clip, it’s best to export the clip as an individual quicktime, then reimport it and edit it back into the timeline. Then analyze it. I would bet you have better results.
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
This is a bug I’ve seen a few times (just again last night, actually). Did you try restarting? What codec are you working with?
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Well, it was weird. I had initially selected all the clips at once that I wanted to apply the SmoothCam to, and once it was all applied the video looked terrible. But, when I selected them individually it worked just fine. Not sure if I selected too much or what.
As for the codec I’m actually not sure. I did capture standard DV Animorphic.
BTW, the glitching appeared a few other times through my process, but a restart of FCP did work.
I’m not really sure what was going on, but it seems to be functioning good now.
Thanks
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Don’t worry too much about it. It happens. Apple’s fixed some of the initial SmoothCam bugs with updates, but it’s still does weird things sometimes. 🙂
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Well hey, thanks for your help anyway.
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