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stedicam filter
rookie help needed. i filmed a boat. i used the stedicam filter. it does not look steady, more like wobbly in the timeline, most of it anyway. Am I missing something? thank you, Jason
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Unless there is zero wind and you are on a small inland lake, boats are usually quite rocky, especially when people stand up.
Please describe your footage and problem a little more clearly. Examples always help and can be uploaded here to the cow. As far as I know steadicam is a rig/shooting technique and not a filter.
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Assume we’re talking about the Smoothcam filter. You might exporting a small example portion of the clip and then try adjusting the various parameters available in the Smoothcam filers controls to see if that improves your results. Or look at some of the commercial alternatives available, like ProDAD’s Mercali V2:
https://www.prodad.com/home/products/videostabilizing/300391667,l-us.xhtml -
Hi, thanks for your reply. I will upload the same movie I did in imovie, using the tab above this e-mail box. In imovie there is a “button” called stabilize. badda-bing badda-boom hit the button and it is stable. My dirty little secret is that I use imovie, but I finally got fcp and am ready to step up. As far as I know the equivalent to this feature is using the “stedicam filter”. I used this, and at least in the timeline of fcp it looks terrible. It seems like if imovie can do something so easily that fcp would also. I was reluctant to even post this as it is my first project and I don’t want to annoy anyone with my lack of experience but boats is what I do and I have always had great luck with using the stabilize feature in imovie. I put a project together and was bummed to see the results. I did not export it yet. It should look pretty much like it’s going to look in the timeline right? thanks much, Jason
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Smoothcam works very well….but only when it works. Some footage does not work well at all. Overly bright areas (ie the sun) is one of those areas where it can fail. Perhaps there’s too many water reflections in your footage, but we won’t know until we see it.
In addition to Andy’s suggestion, there’s also Lock and Load that is a stabilize filter. You have to pay for it, but it’s affordable.
Motion also has other stabilize options for free.
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Hi thanks guys, I did not realize that the filter has controls on it so I will dig into that. This kind of reminds me of learning to snowboard. It hurts and it is frustrating but if you can have a couple of good runs you might just stick with it and be pretty good. I really like the editing and am excited to be involved with it but man do i feel overwhelmed. Thank you very much. jason
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